How to Collect and Preserve Insects

About this eBook

Author

Ross, Herbert H. (Herbert Holdsworth), 1908-1978

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Insects -- Collection and preservation

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59883

Release Date

July 10, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HOW TO COLLECT AND PRESERVE INSECTS — HOW TO COLLECT AND PRESERVE INSECTS
2. 2.WHERE TO COLLECT
3. 3.WHAT TO USE — Nets — Killing Bottles — Aspirators or Suckers — Sifter — Berlese Funnel — Equipment for Collecting Aquatic Insects
4. 4.HOW TO HANDLE UNMOUNTED SPECIMENS — Temporary Cases — Relaxing Boxes and Jars
5. 5.HOW TO MOUNT AND PRESERVE SPECIMENS — Preservation by Pinning — Spreading Board for Moths and Butterflies — Preservation in Fluid
6. 6.HOW TO LABEL THE SPECIMENS
7. 7.HOUSING THE COLLECTION PERMANENTLY — Insect Boxes — Precaution Against Pests
8. 8.THE INSECT WORLD
9. 9.HOW TO IDENTIFY SPECIMENS
10. 10.SYNOPSIS OF ILLINOIS INSECT ORDERS — Primitive Wingless Insects — Diplura Campodeids, Japygids — Protura Proturans — Collembola Springtails — Microcoryphia Bristletails — Thysanura Silverfish — Primitive Winged Insects — Ephemeroptera Mayflies — Odonata Dragonflies, Damselflies — Folding-Wing Insects — Cursoria Cockroaches, Mantids, Walkingsticks — Isoptera Termites — Orthoptera Grasshoppers, Crickets — Dermaptera Earwigs — Plecoptera Stoneflies — Zoraptera Zorapterans — Corrodentia Booklice, Barklice — Phthiraptera Chewing Lice, Sucking Lice — Suborder Mallophaga. — Suborder Anoplura. — Thysanoptera Thrips — Hemiptera True Bugs and Their Allies — Megaloptera Alderflies, Dobsonflies — Neuroptera Lacewings and Their Allies — Coleoptera Beetles, Weevils — Hymenoptera Bees, Wasps, Ants, Sawflies — Mecoptera Scorpionflies — Trichoptera Caddisflies — Lepidoptera Butterflies, Moths — Diptera Flies, Mosquitoes, and Their Allies — Siphonaptera Fleas
11. 11.RELATIVES OF INSECTS — Isopoda Sowbugs, Pillbugs — Amphipoda Small Water Shrimps — Scorpionida Scorpions — Pseudoscorpionida Pseudoscorpions — Phalangida Daddy Longlegs, Harvestmen — Araneida Spiders — Acarina Ticks, Mites — Diplopoda Millipedes — Chilopoda Centipedes
12. 12.THE STATE INSECT COLLECTION
13. 13.REPORTS ON ILLINOIS INSECTS
14. 14.USEFUL BOOKS
15. 15.HOW TO SHIP SPECIMENS
16. 16.WHERE TO BUY SUPPLIES
17. 17.Transcriber’s Notes

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