When I was in high school my science teacher had two, almost floor to ceiling terrariums full of hissing cockroaches! I can deal with most bugs but roaches.. no. My teacher would walk around during class with one on his shoulder. :)
After watching this video I created my own insect collection using an old shoebox lid, a paper towel, and some sewing pins. The day after I found a huge emporer dragonfly and a ground beetle
Jason, Was so glad to view this video. My collection is small, but important to me. The last one I caught was a two-striped walking stick. Actually there were two - mating. The male was soooooo much smaller than the female. Was surprised. I, too, love the beetles. So fascinating, so many variations. Am looking forward to part two. Thank you for showing the tiny insects. Would be nice to be able to attach them to the small triangles as you did.
Yes it is called point mounting. I will have to make a video on that soon. Glad you enjoyed it and bared through the 22 minutes of content. It was a long video.
I too have a collection of insects and bugs , but mine are sealed in epoxy resin blocks , thanks to this they will never be damaged by anything trying to eat them but my only thing i need to be wary about is scratching and chipping of the resin but out of 90 i only had this problem with 1 specimen.
How do you usually deal with keeping bubbles off of your insects when encasing them in resin? I can get bubbles out of the mix but have difficulty with putting the bug in
I can so relate to the way you explain the odors hanging around 🤢😷😂 I absolutely share the same humor😁 I was wondering: do you keep these ‘paintings’ around the house or does one need to keep them in a dry, dark environment? Maybe deep frozen?! Do you also keep preserved in alcohol? I need to learn SO much; my daughter’s interested in starting a ‘bug’ collection. I wanna support her, just don’t wanna deal w/ the odor thingie🥺
these are very interesting!! could you do a video on how to build up confidence to touch and hold insects? And how to catch grasshopper by hand? if not that's totally cool i understand :)
19:21,that beetle it’s very beautiful,despite you say it was now well pinned,you just need to take the pin out and rehydrate it,but be becareful if you are really gonna do it because it’s a nice specimen.
Did you come back from the future tomorrow to watch it today? haha thanks! Entomology rocks. Glad you were looking forward to watch it or was that looking backwards haha! Cheers!
a side note that ive always found cool. those bug people from men in black look like a mix of a walking stick and a tree cricket. its fairly odd how accurate their faces are compared to the real life bugs
Hello. I have serval ecospheres. In the last one I set up 5 months ago, I have three small beetles that I can not identify. These are doing very strange things like I've never seen. Do you have an email address so I can send you photos and some clips? The beetles go around collecting tiny air bubbles and putting them in a pile under leaves until it's about the same size as the beetle. Then they climb inside the bubble and go off about their business. I know some beetles have air bubbles on their abdomen and some collect a layer of air over them with small hairs. But this is something else. The beetle will be in the bubble but doesn't seem to be hairy or collecting air in the normal way. I hope that makes sense
Don't worry about what you don't have and just get out there and collect there is bound to be something awesome somewhere. It is all about perspective.
It doesn't look like anything. I do not understand that you can make a chain about insects or you explain how to collect insects when you take it like a six year old child. Even the material is totally unsuitable! A word of advice, buy yourself some books or educate yourself a little, especially on how to pin a specimen.