Creating a decorative collection

You answered your own question.

This post was edited by Liparus - 19.08.2010 20: 18

So I would like to know if they can be glued? If so, what is better-Pva, moment, silicone?

This post was edited by nikita4orlova - 19.08.2010 20: 23

nikita4orlova
yesterday, 17: 29
I want to put butterflies in a frame, but how can they be attached to the hardboard (smooth plywood) cover? When straightened, for fixing pierced butterflies with a thin needle, but after straightening them out, tk needles are not enough for everyone. so instances without pins.
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Your collection will be short-lived rather than decorative.
Without boxes, your collections will become food for skin eaters and others who want to eat them, and they will quickly become covered with dust and burn out in the light.
Think about it, is it worth giving the life of butterflies to such an undertaking?
Before creating a collection, stock up on ENTOMOLOGICAL PINS and ENTOMOLOGICAL BOXES in advance.
Any sewing needles and pins with rings will rust, because they will be attacked by acids found in the body of insects. Entomological bulaks are made of stainless steel, or covered with special lacquers.
Storage boxes must be tightly closed, otherwise over time all fees will become useless! The collected material must be labelled.
Otherwise, your collection will be a graveyard of butterflies.

Admiral, the butterflies will be in the box right now. To the usual frame with glass, I will add a deep lid, where the butterflies should be glued.
The specimens are already dried, and the pins will not be used anymore.

And the labels, of course, will be printed.

The only question is how the butterfly breast will affect the application of a drop of glue. Won't it feed on it?

  
The only question is how the butterfly breast will affect the application of a drop of glue. Will it not be nourished by it?

The practice of sticking beetles is widely applicable, the worse the butterflies are .
Chinese people in their souvenirs with butterflies, glue them on "liquid glass". Probably on the forum there are no specialists who would have the practice of gluing butterflies. Experiment, I don't think there will be much difference for your "collection".

Yes, these Chinese in general, in my opinion, tear off the torso, and make a drawing instead.

If we are talking about a decorative collection, then we glue it with silicone (transparent). Any PVA, super glues don't seem relevant to me. The first one can peel off from a smooth surface over time, the second one has a low plasticity coefficient and when large volumes of super glue dry out, it tends to crack, but this probably applies more to, say, gluing mobile components. You can still glue it. Another disadvantage, if we talk about gluing butterflies, say you apply glue, and the legs of butterflies are usually rarely straightened, and after straightening they usually stick out below the abdomen, and not to the sides like beetles, therefore the legs will be glued, and not the butterfly's abdomen, with any even minor vibration, only the glue will remain. paws. In this regard, silicone is good, as it envelops the belly of the butterfly and it turns out to be in the "cradle". Apply glue along the wings, not along the abdomen. It's easier with beetles, along the body. Well, in general, St. Petersburg is not a place where it is difficult to get entomological equipment, in particular pins. So I don't see a problem here. But in the future, if you create a collection, of course, you need to switch to pins, this is the mobility of your collection, the ability to exchange, recompose, replace, etc., etc. My first collection of butterflies is showing off at the lyceum today. A souvenir is also good, for the entomologist is not a problem (except for the box itself) and to a friend or on the DR there is something to show up with, always exclusive, especially if the Palearctic.

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