Home collection of insects. How to deal with destructors?

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Рассвет, 18.12.2016 17:41

Hello, dear forum participants!
I am an amateur biologist and a doctor by training. I dry insects at home (I pick up corpses, I don't kill them) and examine them under a microscope. Currently, I have already formed a whole collection, but I am tormented by the fact that destructors work on insects. Dust forms around the beetles, I move the beetles, shake out the dust, wash and dry the plastic cells, but, of course, it forms again there. Under the microscope, light lint skins of I don't know who are found, as well as formations similar to fungi (beige plaques that are visible only under the microscope). I'll try attaching a photo.
How to process dry collections at home? How do you recommend drying at home? What should I do next summer when new objects arrive, and how should I prepare them so that there are fewer (or no) destructors?
I dissected a Madagascar cockroach (there is no place without dissecting), but I like to dry the beetles as a whole, so that they are preserved as if alive.
Please help me!
Thank you in advance for your answers!

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18.12.2016 17:53, TEMPUS

Hello, dear forum participants!
I am an amateur biologist and a doctor by training. I dry insects at home (I pick up corpses, I don't kill them) and examine them under a microscope. Currently, I have already formed a whole collection, but I am tormented by the fact that destructors work on insects. Dust forms around the beetles, I move the beetles, shake out the dust, wash and dry the plastic cells, but, of course, it forms again there. Under the microscope, light lint skins of I don't know who are found, as well as formations similar to fungi (beige plaques that are visible only under the microscope). I'll try attaching a photo.
How to process dry collections at home? How do you recommend drying at home? What should I do next summer when new objects arrive, and how should I prepare them so that there are fewer (or no) destructors?
I dissected a Madagascar cockroach (there is no place without dissecting), but I like to dry the beetles as a whole, so that they are preserved as if alive.
Please help me!
Thank you in advance for your answers!

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