Insect Collecting - Spreading Wings of Butterflies and Moths

[LpsModelXx3]

why do that?

[bryanlassiter1]

Why are they pinning through the wings!?

[MrSleepy163]

NEVER pin through the wings!!!

[celicasimon]

Well done you have just ruined a perfectly good specimen, if you are watching this please be aware this NO WAY TO SET AN INSECT. You DO NOT put pins through the wings. Lazy, destructive, disrespectful, devalues, are the words that spring to mind.

[Nueroactive]

@celicasimon I agree that it is wrong to put pins in the wings!

[Samoyedka]

Great tutorial, thank you :)

[MrOldestPerson]

acupuncture xD

[basicmaze]

bioquip.com is where you get all your stuff

[SmileyFaceEmo]

I hate when an insect collector pins through the wings. It's lazy, and disrespectful to this specimen. You're collecting it from nature, you owe it to take the time to properly pin without damaging the wings.

[stopitzot]

It is very rude to pin wings!

[sind55]

what way could i kill the insect?

[riminovz1]

please answer to me, how many wings does a butterfly have

[TourmalineOpal]

@riminovz1 I think they have four. At least in some species of butterflys and/or moths the two wings on the left or right side are hooked together. The merging makes four wings function like two wings.

[Wolfgang42m]

Killing one to keep it for collection is a way to ensure that our grandsons can see these creatures when they are extinct not by killing them for collection but by other worse factors, like Urbanization, killing them for no proper reason or killing the plants they grow on

[SmileyFaceEmo]

@Wolfgang42m Better still to watch and read, as there are many ways to spread a butterfly -without- damaging the wings using a pin.

[nebreha]

Thanks. Informative. It's better to see once than to read a hundred of times.

Might be usefull for me.

[truckdismountco]

black swallowtail

[DemonDrug95]

MONKEY!!

[kapippy]

hi can you give me advice on starting and pinning insects pls

[daveslamer]

so were do i buy the pins

[knocknak]

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