Entomology for Beginners, Alpheus S. Packard ; Guide to Study of
Insects, iVlplieus S. Packard; A Text-Book of Entomology, Alpheus
S. Packard ; Half-Hours with Insects, Alpheus S. Packard ; Manual
of Invertebrated Animals, Huxley ; Forms of Animal Life, RoUeston ;
Our Household Insects, Edw. A. Butler ; Economic Entomology,
John B. Smith; Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects, Sir John
Lubbock ; Structure and Life History of the Cockroach, Miall and
Denny ; Romance of the Insect World, L. N. Badenoch ; Directions
for collecting and preserving Insects, C. V. Riley ; Insect Life (simple
directions for collecting, mounting, and breeding of insects), John
Henry Comstock ; A Manual for the Study of Insects, John Henry
Comstock ; Little People, Stella Louise Hook ; Life and her Children,
Arabella B. Buckley ; Tenants of an Old Farm, Henry C. McCook,
D.D. ; Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden, Mary Treat; Farm
and Garden Insects, William Somerville ; Insecta, Alpheus Hyatt and
J. M. Arms ; The Cricket on the Hearth, Charles Dickens ; Young
Folks' Pictures and Stories of Animals, Mrs. Sanborn Tenney.
Experiment Stations' Bulletins (U.S. Department of Agriculture):
The Principal Household Insects of the United States, L. C. Howard
and C. L. Marlatt ; Insects affecting Domestic Animals, Herbert Os-
born ; Some Little-Known Insects affecting Stored Vegetable Prod-
ucts, F. H. Chittenden. Circulars : The True Clothes Moths, Circular
No. 30, C. L. Marlatt ; House Flies, Circular No. 35, L. O. Howard ;
Mosquitoes and Fleas, Circular No. 13, L. O. Howard. Farmers' Bul-
letins : Important Insecticides, No. 19, C. L. Marlatt ; Some Insects
Injurious to Stored Grain, No. 45, F. H. Chittenden.
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Outline
I,EBSON
I. Study of a Typical Adult Insect.
Study of Indirect Metamorphosis.
II. and III. Insects injurious or disagreeable to
Persons.
Lesson II. Mosquitoes and Flies.
Lesson III. Bedbugs and Fleas.
IV. and V. Insects injurious to Food or Food Sup-
plies.
Lesson IV. Cockroaches.
Lesson V. Ants and Miscellaneous Pests.
VI. AND VII. Insects injurious to Clothing or Fabrics.
Lesson VI. Motlis and Silver-fish.
Lesson VII. Carpet-beetles and Crickets.
Materials. — Specimens of the insects to be studied : dry,
alcoholic, and live specimens whenever possible ; live speci-
mens in boxes with glass side, in tumblers, or in small
bottles; specimens of eggs, egg capsules of cockroach,
larvse, pupse if possible ; charts and diagrams ; magnifying
glasses; needles, insect pins, or long slender "mourning"
pins for separation of parts ; small pieces of cork to hold
pins and mounted specimens ; bits of cardboard or thin wood
on which eggs may be glued; samples of cloth eaten by
moths, carpet-beetles, silver fish, cockroaches, etc. ; samples
of materials stained or damaged by bedbugs, cockroaches,
and flies ; ants' larvae and pupse from house or field ; " lady
birds " for comparison with carpet-beetle.
Methods.
Aims. — 1. Recognition at sight of adult, pupa, larva,
egg-case or egg.
2. Knowledge of
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' (a) Most harmful form of each insect.
(b) The favorite foods ; breeding
places ; time and season for
breeding or devastation; habits
of life.
(c) How to prevent their attacks.
(d) How to drive away or kill the pests
when they are present.
(e) How to repair the damage inflicted.
Processes.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Entomology for Beginners, Alpheus S. Packard ; Guide to Study of Insects, iVlplieus S. Packard; A Text-Book of Entomology, Alpheus S. Packard ; Half-Hours with Insects, Alpheus S. Packard ; Manual of Invertebrated Animals, Huxley ; Forms of Animal Life, RoUeston ; Our Household Insects, Edw. A. Butler ; Economic Entomology, John B. Smith; Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects, Sir John Lubbock ; Structure and Life History of the Cockroach, Miall and Denny ; Romance of the Insect World, L. N. Badenoch ; Directions for collecting and preserving Insects, C. V. Riley ; Insect Life (simple directions for collecting, mounting, and breeding of insects), John Henry Comstock ; A Manual for the Study of Insects, John Henry Comstock ; Little People, Stella Louise Hook ; Life and her Children, Arabella B. Buckley ; Tenants of an Old Farm, Henry C. McCook, D.D. ; Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden, Mary Treat; Farm and Garden Insects, William Somerville ; Insecta, Alpheus Hyatt and J. M. Arms ; The Cricket on the Hearth, Charles Dickens ; Young Folks' Pictures and Stories of Animals, Mrs. Sanborn Tenney.
Experiment Stations' Bulletins (U.S. Department of Agriculture): The Principal Household Insects of the United States, L. C. Howard and C. L. Marlatt ; Insects affecting Domestic Animals, Herbert Osborn ; Some Little-Known Insects affecting Stored Vegetable Products, F. H. Chittenden. Circulars : The True Clothes Moths, Circular No. 30, C. L. Marlatt ; House Flies, Circular No. 35, L. O. Howard ; Mosquitoes and Fleas, Circular No. 13, L. O. Howard. Farmers' Bulletins : Important Insecticides, No. 19, C. L. Marlatt ; Some Insects Injurious to Stored Grain, No. 45, F. H. Chittenden.
Outline
I,EBSON
I. Study of a Typical Adult Insect. Study of Indirect Metamorphosis.
II. and III. Insects injurious or disagreeable to
Persons. Lesson II. Mosquitoes and Flies. Lesson III. Bedbugs and Fleas.
IV. and V. Insects injurious to Food or Food Supplies. Lesson IV. Cockroaches. Lesson V. Ants and Miscellaneous Pests.
VI. AND VII. Insects injurious to Clothing or Fabrics. Lesson VI. Motlis and Silver-fish. Lesson VII. Carpet-beetles and Crickets.
Materials. — Specimens of the insects to be studied : dry, alcoholic, and live specimens whenever possible ; live specimens in boxes with glass side, in tumblers, or in small bottles; specimens of eggs, egg capsules of cockroach, larvse, pupse if possible ; charts and diagrams ; magnifying glasses; needles, insect pins, or long slender "mourning" pins for separation of parts ; small pieces of cork to hold pins and mounted specimens ; bits of cardboard or thin wood on which eggs may be glued; samples of cloth eaten by moths, carpet-beetles, silver fish, cockroaches, etc. ; samples of materials stained or damaged by bedbugs, cockroaches, and flies ; ants' larvae and pupse from house or field ; " lady birds " for comparison with carpet-beetle.
Methods.
Aims. — 1. Recognition at sight of adult, pupa, larva, egg-case or egg.
2. Knowledge of
' (a) Most harmful form of each insect.
(b) The favorite foods ; breeding places ; time and season for breeding or devastation; habits of life.
(c) How to prevent their attacks.
(d) How to drive away or kill the pests when they are present.
(e) How to repair the damage inflicted. Processes.