Drying insects

tag garbage right now, saves the oil heater. I put a chair next to it, and spread out butterflies on it, everything dries up in a day. I think with beetles the same thing will pass normally...

And an old photo lamp without a red filter (previously used for printing photos) helps me. I spread 2-3 butterflies, depending on the size, put the lamp (100V) up and in an hour it's ready.

well, this is if in small quantities, and if 30-40 butterflies or beetles at a time, then you need something more impressive thread

tag garbage right now, saves the oil heater. I put a chair next to it, and spread out butterflies on it, everything dries up in a day. I think with beetles the same thing will pass normally...

I tried it in the studio. years - cockroaches warped! And large, Periplaneta americana. Since then, I do not risk contacting the heating elements.

I have a slightly different problem-desert blackbirds don't dry out. Apparently, water retention devices in the body work well even after death .
I would like to know about the technology of using the oven.

It's always a problem with black chicks, especially big ones. I have not tried drying in the oven, but there is an experience of drying in a drying cabinet at 50-60 degrees. An ordinary insect dries up tightly in 2-3 hours.

Good results can be achieved with a fan heater. You put the foam with the insects spread out at some distance from the fan, so that the foam does not float, and a current of hot air passes over its surface. I think it will take no more than 3 hours to dry even such a monster as Diesia argentata.
Such a thing is not too expensive-you can take it in the region of 500-600 rubles.

I have a slightly different problem-desert blackbirds don't dry out. Apparently, water retention devices in the body work well even after death.

I have Volgograd half a year dried)))))

And how much on average should a butterfly dry on a straightener? Well, let's say. regular inaches io? I've just been struggling with this question for 3 years now. I dry at normal room temperature for 3 days on sprawlers, the wings are not lowered. But in the Darwin Museum brochure (?) I read that for 2 weeks.
So still, how much?

Hello zemelya (Medvedkovo) answer-optimal - 2 weeks it's not just about moisture some chemical compounds should "ustakanitsa" It's for everyone and not just for the admiral.... Well, for geometrid, of course, a week is enough...and sphingids need 2 weeks of course... Toko remove the straightener under the glass (sideboard, bookshelf, sideboard) And then the dust will pump...

This is for svezhak...5 days will be enough for the exicate

a week is not enough for moths, they seem dry in appearance, but the wings then descend

Then the question of degreasing Lena Nikolaeva wrote about acetone with subsequent exfoliation and straightening... no need for acetone, krl. ottyryatsa lyubimomu gasoline "Galosha" and all.. and it is not necessary to rearrange them...

Are they lowered in the case of freshly raised ones?

a week is not enough for moths, they seem dry in appearance, but the feathers then fall down

And by the way, the question with the straightening of licenids after exiction? All right with you?

After a week, some people can go down quite strongly. Litzenids spread out well if they are tattooed and their wings are flat.

a week is not enough for moths, they seem dry in appearance, but the feathers then fall down

As for moths and their "lowering", the Butterfly is rather ephemeral (as a rule). And you just need to be available-gmaximally sealed boxes and try not to allow temperature changes in the apartment.. well, about humidity, of course...

After a week, some people can go down quite strongly. Litzenids spread out well if they are tattooed and their wings are flat.

DO YOU MASSAGE THE BREASTS OF LITZENIDS WITH THIN TWEEZERS?

Thank you for your tips! I tried to dry it next to the heater. Large Carabus that were not dried in 2 months of drying at room temperature dried in 2 hours. However, I placed the straighteners vertically so that the plane of the straightener became parallel to the plane of the heater. Due to this, the straighteners turned out to be placed closer. The only negative is that the oil heater consumes quite a lot of electricity. On sale relatively recently appeared infrared heaters - they seem to consume much less energy. However, I do not know how strong infrared radiation will affect the pigments in the color of insects. Has anyone accidentally used such units ?

Now I dry the material in this way. I cut out coasters from poly-polyethylene foam, with the help of which I fix the foam with straightened insects over the heater. Large carabids dry out in half an hour or an hour.

Photos of what it all looks like



This post was edited by andrewins - 08/19/2009 01: 23

Freshly assembled beetles on a piece of foam cover with a cloth (so as not to get dusty) and leave to dry for a week - no problems. As for artificial and accelerated drying methods, after that the insects become brittle.

Lucky you! I also used to have problems with drying when I lived in a five-story building. They started as soon as I moved into a concrete house. Therefore, it is necessary to resort to this method of drying. Due to the constantly high humidity in the apartment in the spring-summer-autumn period, even after such artificial drying, the mobility of the joints is restored after a while. But it's still better than sitting around waiting for the heating season to start editing the material, as I had to do before.

The only negative is that the oil heater consumes quite a lot of electricity. On sale relatively recently appeared infrared heaters - they seem to consume much less energy. However, I do not know how strong infrared radiation will affect the pigments in the color of insects. Has anyone accidentally used such units ?

"Nothing comes from anywhere and does not disappear" (c).
How much energy you consume - so much heat and get.
Infrared heaters have their own field of application, while oil heaters have their own.
Infrared heaters have been on sale since time immemorial - an incandescent lamp is essentially an infrared heater
The oil filter also produces infrared radiation.

Who dries butterflies on the straightener for how long. I keep it for 5-7 days. Someone keeps a month, why? And in general, everything is determined by the relative humidity in the room in which drying takes place.

In St. Petersburg or London, you can't do it any other way.
I have a dry apartment-golubyanka 3 days, which is larger up to a week.

I always have something big on my lap: brahmea, catocala, hawk moth, cocoonworm-fast. golubyanka - long, about a week or more, tolstogolovka-very long..
After all, it does not depend on the size ))

I would also say that it does not depend on the size.A fresh butterfly will dry faster than a soaked one.
But 3, 5 and 7 days are still not enough for both options.Dry land on straightening machines for more than 2 weeks.It happens (due to employment) and they sit for more than a month.Not an example of course, but more guarantees that it will be fixed better.

Some are dried with incandescent bulbs,but I prefer a container with insulating silicone balls interspersed with mothballs.Both cases have their own specifics, pros and cons.
A drying room with lamps (if closed) will create a greenhouse effect, i.e. vapors from the calf will settle on the wings and dense tracing paper, deforming them.Further, the light of lamps can also affect the scales.Do not use high-power lamps.40-60 watts is quite suitable.
Silicone balls pull moisture very strongly.Here you just need to take into account the number of k square meters.When drying quickly, there will also be deformations.Do not place the butterfly with wet wings-during the drying process, the wings will stick to the straightener and in most cases the specimen will be lost.

I've also heard about oven drying.Naturally in the air.But it seems to me that there is much more quality loss

I would also say that it does not depend on the size.A fresh butterfly will dry faster than a soaked one.
But 3, 5 and 7 days are still not enough for both options.Dry land on straightening machines for more than 2 weeks.It happens (due to employment) and they sit for more than a month.Not an example of course, but more guarantees that it will be fixed better.

I have soaked dry faster than fresh...

I won't argue.After all, everyone soaks in their own way.I have each butterfly more than 4 cm in span pricked with warm water and placed up to a day in the insulator.Agree that it is more "raw"thanfreshly killed ex.

I won't argue.After all, everyone soaks in their own way.I have each butterfly more than 4 cm in span pricked with warm water and placed up to a day in the insulator.Agree that it is more "raw"than a freshly killed specimen.

We will not agree, but In a fresh insect, the water is in a bound state (intracellular), so it is fresh and dries longer. At least I have

We will not agree, but In a fresh insect, the water is in a bound state (intracellular), so it is fresh and dries longer. At least I have

Yes, as part of a colloidal solution. From it, water evaporates much more slowly.

Misha, and the moisture in svezhak is still less than in my soaked one, Maybe in svezhak and intracellularly, but in my ekz it is intraatomically and intracellularly damp
Fact-fresh ones dry faster.Sometimes you catch it in the morning and in the afternoon, come in the evening to spread it out and have to soak it.Especially blueberries dry quickly fresh.

Yes, fresh ones dry faster by the way

Misha, and the moisture in svezhak is still less than in my soaked one, Maybe in svezhak and intracellularly, but in my ekz it is intraatomically and intracellularly damp
Fact-fresh ones dry faster.Sometimes you catch it in the morning and in the afternoon, come in the evening to spread it out and have to soak it.Especially blueberries dry quickly fresh.

Soaked golubyanka dries so fast that sometimes I don't even have time to straighten it

I would say that it all depends on the case, and on the butterflies themselves.. For example, males of Glaucopsyche alexis dry very intensively when fresh.. Most moths and some scoops are also hard to dry. Very well dry fresh hawkmoth, cocoonworms, some satyrs, some nymphalids. Very bad dry thickheads that are fresh, that soaked, but fresh is still better, they can at least be straightened )))
soaked kocals go easy-hooray! Although fresh ones dry quite well. Soaked parnassas dry much better - there are no problems with them at all. Fresh is also good, but soaked. it seems to me a little better and faster ))

Soaked golubyanka dries so quickly that sometimes I don't even have time to straighten it

I won't argue with you anyway!!!

This post was edited by taler - 25.11.2009 23: 38

I won't argue with you anyway!!!

I moisten my mustache with a brush, and I recommend it to everyone who doesn't do it yet. Lazy, of course, but a broken mustache is a lot of offending