Insects.
Messrs Eirby and Spence say in their work on entomology " that a cockchafer will walk after its inside hag been taken out, a bumble bee will eat though deprived of its abdomen, the head of a wasp will attempt to bite after being separated from the body, and the Body under the same circumstances will attempt to sting." Many inseots will fly away q uite unconcernedly after some of their legs have been broken off, and of some when the lower part of the body has been cut off— the head and legs will walk away by tharnselves. Although apparently unhurt there can be no doubt that iosects, like all other animals suffer great pain on the loss of any of their limbs.
There are several ways to kill insects without causing much suffering and one of the best and easiest of these and the one generally in favour is the cyanide bottle. This bottle can be obtained from all naturalists, or can be quite easily made by placing some cyanide of potassium at the bottom of a widemouthed bottle, and covering it over with moistened plaster of Paris and then allowed to dry. The insects soon die after being corked in such a bottle.
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Manawatu Herald, 3 September 1896, Page 2
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206Insects. Manawatu Herald, 3 September 1896, Page 2
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