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OUR IGNORANCE CONCERNING INSECTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Frank E. Lutz
Affiliation:
Curator of Insect Life, American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y.

Extract

That, my friends, completes the serious part of what I came all the way from New York to say. Our ignorance concerning insects does not depress me because I feel certain that we shall learn. The insect menace does not frighten me because I believe that we can overcome it if we stop our calamity howling and get dorvn to constructive fundamental rvork. In what follows I invite you to join with me in some of the excursions of a museum man who has had the curious Museum experience of having had charge for more than twenty years of a large taxonomic collection without ever describing a new species or changing the name of an old one.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1932

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References

4. “Observations on Leaf-cutting Ants”; Lutz, Frank E.; 1929, American Museum Novitates No. 388.

5. “Light as a Factor in Controlling the Start of Daily Activity of a Wren and Stingless Bees”; Lutz, Frank E.; 1931; American Museum Novitates No. 468.

6. “Caddis-fly Larvae as Masons and Builders”; Lutz, Frank E.; 1930; Natural History, Vol.XXX.