Popular science monthly . of negative can always be pictures accompanying this articlewere staged and photographed would be out of the question to takesuch pictures out in the open, where theslightest movement of the air would besulticient to upset the whole scheme ofarrangement. The insects themselveswere first captured, then anesthetizedand posed. The great variety of posesneeded for pictures of this kind would,of course, preclude the use of drymuseum specimens. Chloroform is perhaps the best anes-thetic for this purpose. The simplestmethod of administration is as fol
Popular science monthly . of negative can always be pictures accompanying this articlewere staged and photographed would be out of the question to takesuch pictures out in the open, where theslightest movement of the air would besulticient to upset the whole scheme ofarrangement. The insects themselveswere first captured, then anesthetizedand posed. The great variety of posesneeded for pictures of this kind would,of course, preclude the use of drymuseum specimens. Chloroform is perhaps the best anes-thetic for this purpose. The simplestmethod of administration is as follows:Moisten a pellet of cotton with thechloroform aiul place it in the bottomof a small wine glass. Next drop theinsect into the glass and cover with a small sheet ofglass. Thiswillprevent thec h 1 o r o f (5 r mfrom anes-thetization willlollow in fromtwo to five min-utes. Thestag-ing of the pic-ture should bedone immedi-ately, and theexposure madebefore the in-sect has hadtime to recoverfrom the effect
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