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Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects

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Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects

Charles Valentine Riley

232 pages~4 hr 37 min read40 chapters$4.99
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Net in hand, where do you begin? Riley's manual teaches the whole craft of collecting and preserving insects, from the characteristics that define them to the apparatus, killing jars, and mounting methods of the field entomologist. Practical, ordered, and time-tested. Everything you need to start a collection that lasts.

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40 chapters

  1. 1DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS.
  2. 2INTRODUCTORY.
  3. 3MANUAL OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS.
  4. 4CHARACTERISTICS OF INSECTS.
  5. 5SCOPE AND IMPORTANCE OF ENTOMOLOGY.
  6. 6CLASSIFICATION OF HEXAPODS.
  7. 7COLLECTING.
  8. 8COLLECTING APPARATUS.
  9. 9COLLECTING HYMENOPTERA.
  10. 10COLLECTING COLEOPTERA.
  11. 11COLLECTING LEPIDOPTERA.
  12. 12COLLECTING HEMIPTERA.
  13. 13COLLECTING DIPTERA.
  14. 14COLLECTING ORTHOPTERA.
  15. 15COLLECTING NEUROPTERA.
  16. 16KILLING AND PRESERVING INSECTS.
  17. 17ENTOMOTAXY.
  18. 18CARE OF PINNED AND MOUNTED SPECIMENS.

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