在野外采集昆虫标本工作中,对己采集的标本需要保存几天甚至几十天,如何完好无损地保持昆虫标本的颜色是一个值得注意的具体问题。一个不完整的或失去其本色的昆虫标本,不免有损于它的意义和价值。对于如何解决昆虫标本在临时保存时尽量保持它的颜色,在一九七八年我省林业昆虫普查中,我们作了“饱和酒精棉球(块)密封保存法”的试验, In the field of collecting insect specimens in the field, the collected specimens need to be stored for several days or even tens of days. How to maintain the color of insect specimens intact is a particular problem worth noting. An incomplete or lost its original insect specimens, can not help but detrimental to its significance and value. As for how to solve the insects specimens try to keep its color in the temporary preservation, in the 1978 Shaanxi Province Forestry Insect Census, we made a “saturated alcohol cotton ball (block) seal preservation method” test,