How to preserve bugs

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

One of the best ways to learn about insects is to observe them up-close. Learn how to catch insects using a net, collect, and pin them.

By Kelly, Today I am going to demonstrate to Märta (and all of you at home) how to re-hydrate, and then position and re-dry insects. I have done more than these than I want to remember, (over 2000)…

Learn how to preserve insects in resin, including how to get rid of bubbles in resin and how to avoid them in the first place by mixing the right way! I’m also sharing how to dry and prep insects for resin using dead Brood X cicadas.

How to preserve insects in resin. Hopefully I can find a way to do this without having to go buy resin....

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 outreach activities, I was very excited to learn about this method! Aquatic insects are typically stored in glass vials filled with alcohol,…

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

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…