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| Author: | Ghost&Flower [ Wed May 02, 2012 5:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | bug pinning/taxidermy |
does anyone else here collect any taxidermy, oddities or other such things? I took my girlfriend to a bug pinning class for her birthday and its become a new hobby on top of our collecting this stuff hobby. here's one she just finished... Scorpion Vs. Tarantula! 
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| Author: | SaintOfSpinners [ Wed May 02, 2012 6:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: bug pinning/taxidermy |
I took an entemology class at SMCC. Lot's of field trips and pinning. Great fun. But like a lot of fishermen I know I am a catch and release guy so that goes for everything from insect to reptiles. (As I have gotten older I have stopped catching small mammels) My favorite are the different types of Mantis. |
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| Author: | Ghost&Flower [ Wed May 02, 2012 6:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: bug pinning/taxidermy |
yeah I dont think I could get myself to catch anything. We buy them dried and dead from a local place. They say their supplier finds them dead, but they dont really know.. |
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| Author: | Gojigirl [ Wed May 02, 2012 6:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: bug pinning/taxidermy |
I like the mantis too Those I let go But the rest of bugdom is open season! I loved helping my kids in biology make the pinned bug collections catching was the fun part Mostly I have collected cicadas I keep many dried dead ones on my dresser in a glass box with shelves The scorpion/tarantula diorama is awesome! 
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| Author: | SaintOfSpinners [ Wed May 02, 2012 6:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: bug pinning/taxidermy |
Every year we have a bug fair at the natural history museum in LA. Huge! LA likes to rock the party. http://www.nhm.org/site/activities-prog ... ge-gallery http://www.flickr.com/search/?ss=2&w=al ... air&m=text |
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| Author: | T.J. [ Wed May 02, 2012 7:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: bug pinning/taxidermy |
I spent a year in an entomology lab pinning and categorizing Diptera(flies) I never want to pin another bug again. |
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| Author: | blakewest [ Thu May 03, 2012 8:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: bug pinning/taxidermy |
When I was 10 or 11 I got into insects and went about collecting specimens to study. I was living in Arizona at the time, and the apartment complex where my family lived was rather lush with landscaping plants, and I think they were all over watered too. So there were a ton of bugs to catch. I used a home made kill jar with cotton balls soaked in acetone to kill the bugs. But it didn't always work properly on the bigger ones. I caught this one green grasshopper that was maybe 3" long and thought it was dead. About a week after I pinned the guy, the rear legs started twitching occasionally. This kept up for maybe a month. I don't know but maybe there was still some metabolism going on in the critter. I thought it was pretty creepy at the time, but I couldn't bring myself to "release" him or throw him out. I figured he was a zombie at that point. I think you're safer sticking to the pre-killed bugs. |
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