How to make butterfly specimens

1, soften the dead butterflies, put the butterflies in a box of damp sand before covering, about 2~3 days can be softened.

2, insert the needle, according to the size of the insect, choose the appropriate insect needle, from the center of the back of the butterfly thorax inserted, and leave a length of 8mm.

3. Then insert the needle vertically into the center of the slot of the wing spreading plate, and then use a small insect needle or tweezers to pull or pinch the thicker wing veins of the left and right forewings and pull them forward.

4. Spreading the whole capital of the wings, press on the pre-folded transparent wing press strip, so that the rear edge of its forewings coincide with the crease on the strip.

5, in order to make the standard wood in a natural shape, can be used in the base of the wing wing veins of the insect needle tweaking plastic butterfly wings, and the feet, antennae and tentacles slightly organized.

6, dehydration and drying, you can put the specimen into the oven at 40 degrees dry, or placed in a ventilated dry place for about two weeks, so that it dries on its own.

Expanded Information:

The butterflies in the world are divided into five main families:

1. Pink Butterfly Family: There are mainly cabbage butterflies, white pink butterflies, and yellow pink butterflies, which are famous for migrating in groups.

2. Parnassiidae: There are mainly Parnassiid butterflies and serpentine butterflies (serpentine butterflies are sometimes singled out as serpentine butterflies [Parnassiidae]).

3, Gray Butterfly Family: Includes the Blue Gray Butterfly, Copper Butterfly, Swallow Gray Butterfly, Gray Butterfly, and Shell Butterfly (Shell Butterflies are mostly found in Tropical America, and are sometimes classified as Shell Butterflies [Riodinidae])

4, Nymphalidae: Nymphalidae is the brush-footed butterflies. Nymphalidae is the largest and most diverse family, and some experts subdivide it into several families.

5, get butterfly family: mainly long-tailed get butterfly, luan brown get butterfly and so on. The family is a large group, mostly black-brown, quite easy to recognize. These brush-footed butterflies include some common butterflies such as Admiral Nymphs, Nymphalids, King Butterflies, Spotted Butterflies and Red Nymphs.