Making+an+Insect+Collection

=Making an Insect Collection....= ==

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Insects in closeup and more....
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** [|New Zealand Insects] **
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** [|Insect Anatomy] **
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=How to mount insects for your collection:=
 * [[image:Pinning_insects.jpg width="347" height="262"]] || =What you need...=

=A Relaxing Jar=
 * 1) ==== A Relaxing jar ====
 * 2) ==== An insect ====
 * 3) ==== A spreading board ====
 * 4) ==== A few insect pins (sewing pins are too thick) ====
 * 5) ==== Some wing tape (thin strips of baking paper will do) ====
 * 6) A label ||

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=How to Make a Spreading Board= From stiff corrugated cardboard cut: 2 side strips 100mm X 20mm 2 side strips 100mm X 30mm 1 base strip 100mm X 65mm || Using PVA stick one of the narrower side strips along the edge of the base strip as shown. || Glue the second narrower strip. || Stick it along the the other edge of the base strip. || Make the top layer with the 2 remaining strips, glueing and positioning them to create a V-shaped opening. || Leave your spreading board to dry. The V-shaped opening is to house the insect's abdomen. Fatter abdomens fit in near the wider top of the V, smaller abdomens fit near the bottom. || =Next.... Pinning your insect:=
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 * [[image:Insect_pinning_points.jpg]] || =Where to put the pin...=

[|Instructions for Mounting]
|| = Our first attempts.... = Jordan's Crane Fly ||
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and lots of pins....
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Will's wasp and fly
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Zac's cicada
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A customized spreading board for Jordan's crane fly
|| ====**Thanks to Mr Carroll we discovered...**====

curl up!
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Preparing the box...
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Identifying the insecst and preparing the label
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The first two specimens in Will's Insect Collection.
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