“It’s a very neat little kit. It’s
just scissors, tubes, a paintbrush, and a pencil.
If we come across a colony of adult whiteflies and
we want to preserve them, then I have to pick them
up very gently with a small paintbrush, and deposit
them into a tube of ethyl alcohol. The scissors
are for cutting leaves off, or in the case of some
of these whiteflies, for cutting a small square
of leaf and putting that into the spirit.”—Jon
Martin, Entomologist, Natural History Museum, London
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