Insect Collection Finally Over!!!!!
I only have a few minutes before I have to be at a meeting but I wanted to post some pictures of my completed insect collection. It looks much nicer in person but a few pictures will have to do. If you look really close you can see the blood, sweat and tears I poured into this project and I am so happy it's over. My favorite insects are the butterflies they really add color to the whole thing. I hope I never have to ID or pin another insect ever. You'd have to pay me big money to do it all over again and even still I might not do it. Hope you enjoy the pictures. Stay tuned for a Halloween blog. I know what your thinking, "It's almost Christmas ... Halloween what's that, wasn't that over a month ago ..." and you are right but the picture is worth the wait. The arborist in me thinks it's hilarious, so other people may not get it but I'll try to explain as best I can. For now though you have to hang off the edge of your seat in anticipation ... I'll make a feable attempt to do it before Christmas but I make no guarantees. Got to go.
posted by Charlene @ 4:12 PM
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5 Comments:
Wow, nice work! Your butterflies and moths look awesome, especially the tiger swallowtail! I bet the odonates do as well, but I can't see them too well in the photo. You had way more grasshoppers than I did. Can you identify them to species without a microscope? Anyway, congratulations on surviving the torture!
holy crap that looks awesome! What the heck are the ones in the viles? Where is the one with the note about the missing leg? Also, I think you should have included those big juicy spiders we caught at your house. Or you could have given it to the teacher. They were disgusting and I never want to see one again!
I do plan on giving the big disgusting spider to the teacher, I don't want it either. The one's in the vials are soft bodied insects like aphids and there is one of those black and yellow caterpillars in there. The one that was missing the leg is one of the dragonflies which didn't show up to well in the picture because of the clear wings and the dark background. To answer your question Carol, I only identified my grasshoppers to sub-family so it wasn't too difficult, for species you would definitely need a microscope.
Your collection looks awesome!!! I shudder to think how long it took you to do that. How come there aren't any spiders or centipedes? Are they technically not in the insect family since they have more than 6 legs? I also find it amusing that Order Hemiptera is labelled "Bugs". I would've thought that there'd be some more specific name. :P
Wow that is awesome. We are just starting our collection of insects. Starting by raising caterpillars we found to whatever they grow into, then we'll pin them to our board. Feel free to check it out I have some video of Monarch caterpillar becoming a cocoon and a funny video of another Monarch caterpillar being territorial. http://guysgonebuggy.blogspot.com/
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