Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects. Charles V. Riley

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066171940

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       INTRODUCTORY.

       MANUAL OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS.

       CHARACTERISTICS OF INSECTS.

       SCOPE AND IMPORTANCE OF ENTOMOLOGY.

       CLASSIFICATION OF HEXAPODS.

       COLLECTING.

       COLLECTING APPARATUS.

       COLLECTING HYMENOPTERA.

       COLLECTING COLEOPTERA.

       COLLECTING LEPIDOPTERA.

       COLLECTING HEMIPTERA.

       COLLECTING DIPTERA.

       COLLECTING ORTHOPTERA.

       COLLECTING NEUROPTERA.

       KILLING AND PRESERVING INSECTS.

       ENTOMOTAXY.

       CARE OF PINNED AND MOUNTED SPECIMENS.

       PRESERVATION OF ALCOHOLIC SPECIMENS.

       LABELING SPECIMENS.

       INSECT BOXES AND CABINETS.

       ARRANGEMENT OF INSECTS IN THE CABINET.

       MUSEUM PESTS, MOLD, ETC.

       MOLD.

       VERDIGRISING AND GREASING.

       THE REARING OF INSECTS.

       DIRECTIONS FOR TRANSMITTING INSECTS.

       NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

       INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING ARACHNIDS AND MYRIAPODS.

       DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING SPIDERS.

       COLLECTING OTHER ARACHNIDS: MITES, TICKS, SCORPIONS, ETC.

       COLLECTING MYRIAPODA.

       TEXT BOOKS—ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS.

       COMPREHENSIVE WORKS MOST USEFUL FOR THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS.

       GENERAL WORKS ON CLASSIFICATION.

       AMERICAN PERIODICALS.

       FOREIGN PERIODICALS.

       LIST OF MORE USEFUL WORKS ON ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.

       ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION AND BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

       HOW TO OBTAIN ENTOMOLOGICAL BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.

INTRODUCTORY.

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      There is a constant demand, especially from correspondents of the Museum and also of the Department of Agriculture, for information as to how to collect, preserve, and mount insects. There is also great need of some simple directions on a great many other points connected with the proper packing of insects for transmission through the mails or otherwise; labeling; methods of rearing; boxes and cabinets; text-books, etc. Interest in the subject of entomology has, in fact, made rapid growth in the last few years, and now that nearly every State has an official entomologist connected with its State Agricultural Experiment Station, the number of persons interested in the subject may be expected to increase largely in the near future. I have hitherto made use of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, No. 261, which is a pamphlet on collecting and preserving insects prepared by Dr. A. S. Packard. This is out of print, and I have been requested by Prof. Goode to prepare for Bulletin 39, U. S. N. M., something that would cover the whole ground and give the more essential information needed for collectors and students of insect life. I have deemed it unnecessary to go too much into detail, but have studied not to omit anything essential. Customs and methods vary in different countries and with different individuals, but the recommendations contained in the following pages are based upon my own experience and that of my assistants and many acquaintances, and embrace the methods which the large majority of American entomologists have found most satisfactory.

      Much of the matter is repeated bodily from the directions for collecting and preserving insects published in my Fifth