Fig. 1: InsLif-E2-Front
- Cloth: Khaki right twill
- Embroidery: Cotton lock stitch
Fig. 2: InsLif-E2-Reverse
- Back: Plain NO imprint with starch
Item Name: Insect Life 1947 - 1960
Item ID: InsLif-E2
Collector Rating: 1
Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge
Requirements September 1944 until June 1972
1. Watch the insects at a pond side or brook, ant's nest, clump of flowers, wasp's nest, rotted log or other center of activity, for three hours. make notes on what he sees.
2. In the field-or if this is impossible, from mounted specimens-tell to which order insects of six different orders belong. Explain how he recognizes each order.
3. (a) Make a spreading board and three specimen boxes, (b) collect, mount and label 25 different kinds of insects including 3 beneficial and 3 harmful to man. Exhibit his collection at a Troop meeting.
4. Know something about the life histories and habits of the twenty-five insects collected in Requirement No. 3; that is, where each is likely to be found, what it eats, the different stages of its life, how it sees, hears, smells, feels (if it does these things), and with what plants, animals, birds, and other insects it is associated.