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15.08.2006 10:14, Nilson

Of course, I may be wrong - try not to prick beetles. After communicating with people close to ZIN, I myself moved only to sticking on triangles under the right side (about 5 mm long for medium beetles), although I used to prick without a second thought. Advantages:
1. the beetle is not damaged, i.e. it can then be easily peeled off, changed, and so on.
2. the beetle is easier to scan and shoot, it looks neater in photos, and the collection looks prettier - I think so.
3. there is no possibility to incorrectly pierce the bug with a pin.
4. the requirements for pins are very gentle: I have Nizhny Novgorod troika for most go perfectly.
Disadvantages:
1. spreading requires more time and pins (up to 40 per beetle).
2. there is a danger that the beetle will fly off the triangle...

As for sticking on the whole dies-I'm against it. It turns out. of course, it's beautiful, but the whole ventral part is hidden.

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04.09.2006 15:27, Necrocephalus

I want to add it. I also have budavki c entomolog.com. The quality is not bad, but still you can't compare it with Morpho. The tip of the pin is more blunt, and the pins themselves bend relatively easily. After such bends, the fingers are covered with a black coating, i.e. the coating comes off. For valuable copies, I do not particularly recommend them, but for banals and dies - the material is decent!

I myself just recently got pins with entomolog.com, and was quite satisfied. Apparently, the person making them changed the technology - even after intense and repeated flexion-extension (I decided to give them a small test), none of the three pins tested in this way gave me even a grain of black plaque

, I checked both 1, 3 and 00. The stiffness also seemed quite acceptable to me. The only negative that I noticed is the lack of sharpness of some (not all) treshek.