Journal, insect samplings, and species accounts from Alaska, v4400
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Beaver 1967 Alaska Journal 23 25 June (cont.) 1030 Arrived back at camp and ate breakfast and then I slept for a few hours to 1330. Then 1330 I came to the lab, and finished going through the remaining samples to #20 (Coleoptera study). It appears that the Burlese method of collecting the Diptera larvae is efficient only in certain soils and vegetation. For example, in some less mossy soils, the Burlese funnel appear to extract all the Diptera larvae while mossy soil sample usually have 1/3 to 1/2 as many Diptera larvae still remaining after 24 hrs. in the Burlese funnel. I still need to hand check each sample and will probably do so all through the summer until I'm satisfied with the Burlese funnel production or dissatisfied. 1730 went to supper and immediately after words, T. Custer and I went to the Sunday cinema. 2130 Left the movie and then took a vessel (borrowed me because a rolle - or coggie fell off of the vessel we had) which didn't run as steer well and went to check lines 3 W and B. Both were empty. On the way, we came across a fellow who was attempting to shoot a squirrel or sort appeared. When I talked to him, he said he wasn't