Insect inspection cage

Abstract

Abstract A new and useful enclosure or cage for insects, such as fruit flies (Drosophila), which is especially constructed and adapted to accommodate a colony of such insects, and to provide for such colony, an environment in which the insects may reside and multiply, and in which the insects may be subjected to experimental controls in various manners as may be desired. The enclosure or cage has at least one transparent wall, whereby the insects may be viewed, studied, counted, photographed, and otherwise observed and recorded. The enclosure or cage has a portion into which the insects may be herded, by movement of a pistonlike wall or walls, and which has a dimension in one direction which provides accommodation for only one layer of insects in that direction, whereby all of the insects in the enclosure or cage are disposed substantially in a common plane and are thus located immediately adjacent to a transparent wall, and, more specifically, between such wall and a source of light, which may be daylight or photoflash, in such manner as to permit photographic images or shadowgraphs of the mass of insects, so disposed, to be readily made for subsequent examination and counting.

Inventors

• 👤 Robert C Stebbins

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