Insect pinning diy

Expert tips for collecting, thawing, and displaying your bug collectionIf you want to start building up an insect collection, it's so easy to find and pin any bug that you find. Pinning is the perfect way to preserve and display insects,...

Posts about insect preservation written by Heather Morrison

Like many children, Otis loves his nature collection. He loves to collect items from his nature walks including dead bugs. In the past, we've stored his nature collection including his bugs in a lovely wooden box (it has sections and a glass cover) which has worked really well and looks beautiful on his shelves. But what if you didn't want the child to touch the bugs, what if the bugs were too delicate to be handled by young children, what if you wanted to pass the bugs around to many young…

Why its so Important to Keep Good Insect Collecting Data. When collecting cicadas or any other insect for that matter, it is very importa

We love finding new specimens to add to Elliot’s nature collection. They’re a great resource for his nature studies and I’ve really enjoyed refining my process of preserving specimens over the past couple of years. I have a bit of experience pinning a variety of different insects, but am most familiar with butterflies and moths,

As you know our Family Hobby is Bug Collecting. This year the kids are each getting there own box to fill, with pinned bugs that they will pin and stage completely on their own. I Can. Not. Wait! I recently blogged about pinning a House Centipede through a series of photos, see it here. Tips for Pinning Bugs Beyond the Basics and Helpful Tips even vacation AS I wrote my draft I realized there's a series of tips to consider when pinning. I hope this is helpful to anyone who has been pinning…

Entomologists on Twitter got all excited last week when a tutorial for preserving insects in hand sanitizer was passed around. As a teacher and an entomologist who does a lot of aquatic insect out…

Insect Collection Case and Introduction to Entomology: Entomology is the scientific study of insects which are a class of invertebrates within the arthropodphylum that have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of a…

When my boys found a stunning (also dead) dragon fly, I wondered if we could preserve it in resin to keep. Like museum specimens or old-school paperweights …

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