Aspirator (entomology)

"Pooter" redirects here. For the character in Diary of a Nobody, see Charles Pooter.
Two styles of aspirators. A. collecting jar with two stoppers; B. jar with one stopper.
1 - collecting tube; 2 - cork; 3- collection jar; 4 - cloth filter; 5 - tube for attaching a flexible hose; 6 - flexible hose for breathing air

In entomology, an aspirator, also known as a pooter, is a device used in the collection of insects, crustaceans or other small, fragile organisms, usually for scientific purposes.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Dhooria, M.S. (2008). Ane's Encyclopedic Dictionary of General & Applied Entomology (7th ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. p. 18. ISBN 9781402086441.
  2. ^ Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. p. 311. ISBN 978-1402062421.
  3. ^ Tóth F. An improved version of the ’aspirator gun’ – a device for collecting arthropods. European Arachnology 2000. (S. Toft & N. Scharff eds.), pp. 299-300. Archived March 21, 2012, at the Wayback Machine