Volume 1

Illustrations of the Linnaean genera of insects / By W. Wood.

  • William Wood
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Illustrations of the Linnaean genera of insects / By W. Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Method of catching and preserving Insects for Collections*. I. INSECTS of thefirst Order(COLEOPTERA) are found in and under the dung (Scarab&us, Dermestes, Hister, Staphylinus) of animals, especially of cows, horses, and sheep. Many of them make holes under the dung three or four inches deep ; it would therefore be neces- sary to have an iron spade to dig them out when in search of this tribe of insects. Some \Lucanus, Cerambyx, Dermestes) are found in rotten and half-decayed wood, and under the decayed bark of trees. On the car- cases (Hister, Silpha, Staphylinus) of animals that have been dead four or five days, on moist bones that have been gnawed by dogs or other animals, on flowers having a fetid smell, and on several kinds of fungous substances, particularly the rotten and most stinking: others (Byrrhus, * Ellis. a