How to Collect and Preserve Insects

STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION
H. H. ROSS
Printed by Authority of the State of Illinois NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY DIVISION George Sprugel, Jr., Chief
Circular 39 Urbana November, 1966 (Eighth Printing)
STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION BOARD OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
John C. Watson, Chairman ; Thomas Park, Ph.D., Biology ; L. L. Sloss, Ph.D., Geology ; Roger Adams, Ph.D., D.Sc., Chemistry ; Robert H. Anderson, B.S.C.E., Engineering ; Charles E. Olmsted, Ph.D., Forestry ; W. L. Everitt, E.E., Ph.D., Representing the President of the University of Illinois ; Delyte W. Morris, Ph.D., President of Southern Illinois University .
NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY DIVISION, Urbana, Illinois SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL STAFF George Sprugel, Jr., Ph.D., Chief Herbert H. Ross, Ph.D., Assistant Chief Robert O. Watson, B.S., Assistant to the Chief
Section of Applied Botany and Plant Pathology J. Cedric Carter, Ph.D., Plant Pathologist and Head J. L. Forsberg, Ph.D., Plant Pathologist Robert A. Evers, Ph.D., Botanist Robert Dan Neely, Ph.D., Plant Pathologist E. B. Himelick, Ph.D., Plant Pathologist Walter Hartstirn, Ph.D., Assistant Plant Pathologist D. F. Schoeneweiss, Ph.D., Assistant Plant Pathologist David Russell Vance, Technical Assistant Robert J. Slattery, B.S., Technical Assistant Robert S. Perry, B.S., Technical Assistant Betty S. Nelson, Technical Assistant Sylvia P. Brockstein, M.S., Technical Assistant
Section of Publications and Public Relations Owen F. Glissendorf, M.S., Technical Editor and Head Robert M. Zewadski, M.S., Associate Technical Editor Nancy K. Ginzel, B.S., Assistant Technical Editor Wilmer D. Zehr, Technical Photographer William L. Taylor, Technical Assistant
Technical Library Doris F. Dodds, B.A., M.S.L.S., Technical Librarian Patricia F. Stenstrom, B.A., M.S.L.S., Assistant Technical Librarian
CONSULTANTS: Herpetology, Hobart M. Smith, Ph.D., Professor of Zoology, University of Illinois ; Parasitology, Norman D. Levine, Ph.D., Professor of Veterinary Parasitology and Veterinary Research, University of Illinois ; Wildlife Research, Willard D. Klimstra, Ph.D., Professor of Zoology and Director of Cooperative Wildlife Research, Southern Illinois University ; Statistics, Horace W. Norton, Ph.D., Professor of Statistical Design and Analysis, University of Illinois .