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How To Start Pinning Butterflies and Insects If you plan on starting any type of insect collection, pinning your bugs is the most effective way of preservation for most types of insects with exoskeletons. At first glance you may think that pinning insects is as simple as taking your dried insect, poking it to a board a

A selection of photographs from the book “A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science.”

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,

A beautiful specimen of the iconic milkweed butterfly most Americans grew up loving and watching. This is a staple for any butterfly collection, representing a very influential creature we all know the name of. Great for those just starting to get into entomology as it pins beautifully and well. These are farmed butterflies. We do NOT sell or deal in the ENDANGERED migratory subspecies of Danaus plexippus. Specimens are A1 unless noted *PLEASE NOTE*********specimen may be either male or…

Natural History in Oxford Pitt Rivers.

PRICES MAY VARY. Real Preserved Butterfly Cleared with U.S. Fish & Wildlife Butterfly Utopia has been expertly framing butterflies since 2001! Wingspan: 3.5 inches. Single framed real butterfly in a Riker Mount. Cotton filled hard cardboard frames with a glass top. The butterflies are not glued, they are gently pressed against the glass by the cotton. Riker mounts are not sealed and can be easily opened to extract or reposition the butterflies simply by removing 2-4 pins that are on the…