Book Description

Preface: This book is largely a story of American Museum of Natural History expeditions and laboratory experiments. To be sure, these "expeditions" took me at most only a few feet from our house and frequently lasted only a few minuts. The "Laboratory" was sometimes in our cellar, sometimes in one of our flower beds or on the lawen. I trust that the occational digressions to other fields and to other laboratories will be partdoned. My thanks are sincerely given to the Museum for permission to use illustrations belonging to it and articles previously published in Natural History. More specifically, I welcome this opportunity to express both my personal thanks and those of the Museum's department of insects to the contributors to our Entomological Fund that financed, among other things, the home-lot research. Frank E. Lutz.