. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. .^ra ^^w^^ IritSli. Ci^Mtcting and Preicrving Inttcit Professor Comstock ; mventod and J-scril-ovi root-ciRe ill I rder to study undcrnround insects. This is i metal cafje v III K'lass sides, made narrow, and with >{alvani/i d iron additional siJi which CM I'e slipped down over thr ones so .is to ket| the cage dark when not under ob.
. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. .^ra ^^w^^ IritSli. Ci^Mtcting and Preicrving Inttcit Professor Comstock ; mventod and J-scril-ovi root-ciRe ill I rder to study undcrnround insects. This is i metal cafje v III K'lass sides, made narrow, and with >{alvani/i d iron additional siJi which CM I'e slipped down over thr ones so .is to ket| the cage dark when not under ..ition. Plants and ' sti's are placed in between I 'wo gLiss sutes, .ind the v\l' ! apparatus IS then placed in the uround. I' t. i be pulled up ..I, I the e t> thiounh'iie ^'lass. Ft' liisr- i> '.^dinj; upon ^trasses ii s we!! to make .i wooden box two (eel deep with lx)ttoin perfi ated with a lew M er )y|es covered with wire netting and containinR a ^ood supnK f/ fi;rowinf{ The box shruld be of gdod size, say 3 X J \ . u\t Little upright posts or .sticks or laths six inches high shciik! be na:ted to the corners of the box, and gauze mos- quito or something liner tacked over the whole. This kind of a box is of gpod service in rearing grasshoppers, which are the most difficult insects to rear. Confined in a small breeding cage they feed littio, and are apt to fatally exhaust themselvu. in futile efforts Boxes for these insects should be about three feet , and in shcjid be growing nc! only grasses but also weeds of various kinds. The long-horned grasshoppers (L(xustidA') are very easy to rear in confinement, and need only be gi\cn an occasional supply of fresh lood. This is the case also with the walking-sticks, and mantids. the latter requiring no moisture wiiatever beyond that which they get from the bodies of their victims. That reminds me that one of the difficulties encou tered in the rearing of inse
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