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A METHOD OF SECURING MOTHS' EGGS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John. B. Lembert
John. B. Lembert
Affiliation:
Yo Semite, Cal.
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A practical way of procuring moths's eggs under my observation last season and the season before, though an Arctia ornata ♂ that I sent to Mr. Dyar while he was in Portland, Oregon.

When I take an Arctia ornata ♀, and she is ready to lay eggs, the moment she shows signs of being stupefied in the Cyanide bottle I take her out, close the wings over her back, and place her in a paper envelope; as soon as she revives, she will commence to scratch the paper with her legs; I then shake the envelope, and if she has given up some eggs, I take them out, give her another dose of Cyanide fumes, and when she revives a second time I have found as many as 125 eggs in the paper.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 26 , Issue 6 , June 1894 , pp. 156
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1894

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