Preserving butterflies

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Get ready, I’m about to share some secrets. Well, not secrets per se, but stuff I figured out on my own and haven’t shared before. With Summer finally on the horizon, we are all spending more time outdoors enjoying the beauty of the season. Flowers in bloom, and so many intense colors popping...great inspiration for jewelry, no? I love incorporating unusual bits and pieces into my jewelry designs. Everything from leaves and flowers to opossum, raccoon and coyote teeth. Some of these oddities…

Entomology is a unique process in which you can preserve the original look of the bug species of your choosing. Many people like to preserve a dead butterfly so it will remain as bright and beautiful as it was when it was alive. You can preserve any butterflies with this method, even a large monarch butterfly.

Butterflies are beautiful to look at, and collectors enjoy preserving multiple species to admire their wing patterns. If you've found a dead butterfly or captured one that you want to save, you can either pin it in a display case or...

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

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,

Long term preservation of organisms either plant or animal in the best possible condition is known as specimen preservation.

Head to YouTube! Search how to pin a butterfly and follow it carefully. The best way to learn this is with a video. See the rest of this board for further instructions!

The planet earth is essentially a gigantic magnet. By exposing a smaller magnet to our planet’s natural magnetic pull, you can quickly and easily establish which direction is north-south. Together with your children or students, you can create your own compass with a few simple supplies.

Butterflies are beautiful to look at, and collectors enjoy preserving multiple species to admire their wing patterns. If you've found a dead butterfly or captured one that you want to save, you can either pin it in a display case or...