Preserving Spiders In Hand Sanitizer

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Preserving spiders in hand sanitizer. Which is quicker and easier. This video demonstrates how to take insect and other invertebrate specimens and have them float like magic in a vial or cuvette filled with ordinary hand sanitizer. Preserving insects in hand sanitizer february 21 2011 february 20 2011 dragonflywoman entomologists on twitter got all excited last week when a tutorial for preserving insects in hand sanitizer was passed around.
Preserving insects in hand sanitizer aquatic insects are typically stored in glass vials filled with alcohol which unfortunately means the insects all sink to the bottom. Preserving insects with hand sanitzer highly recommended watch sam droege s youtube video on how to preserve insects with hand sanitzer. Preserving bugs in hand sanitizer discussion in insects other invertebrates arthropods started by spepper oct 28 2013.
If you want a good look at the insect you usually have to take it out of the vial and put it in a dish of alcohol. Which has fewer bubbles. This all makes insects in.
I recommend drying any bug prior to putting your specimen into the hand santizer from personal experience just like sam says to do in his video. It s then really hard to position them so that you can see particular features. Which way works better.
How to preserve and display insect specimens in hand sanitizer 1. Oct 28 2013 1. How to preserve insect specimens in hand sanitizer br by dejenmengis carl white moriah browning denise williams sarah fisher br 2.