This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Our local agricultural extension requires them to be put (submerged) in Isopropyl alcohol. At least maybe they can get drunk before they die! Sharlane Gubkin
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Appelbaum & Himmelstein < [email protected]> wrote: > This is a message from the Museumpests List. > To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > I am trying to get an intact dead body of a particular type of insect to > photograph so I can have it identified, but it takes a long time for them > to die by starvation after I put them in a jar. I noticed that a squirt of > Windex incapacitates them temporarily but does not kill them, so I dropped > a small bit of cotton wet with full-strength ammonium hydroxide into the > jar with a recently caught one, and it died quite quickly. I am not, > however, looking forward to opening the jar. > > Is there some other common but deadly substance (other than RAID) that > would make a quick kill? > > Based on my Windex experience, I suggest it when you are trying to catch > insects without squashing them. It may work on flying ones as well as > crawling ones. > > Barbara Appelbaum > > *Appelbaum & Himmelstein* > *444 Central Park West* > *New York, NY 10025* > *212-666-4630 (voice)* > *212-316-1039 (fax)* > *[email protected]* > *website: aandhconservation.org* > * > * > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] in > the subject put: > "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. > > You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. > To change to the DIGEST mode send an > email to [email protected] with this command in the body: > > set mode digest pestlist > > Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected] -- Sharlane Gubkin Preservation Officer Kelvin Smith Library Case Western Reserve University 11055 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106-7151 (216) 368-3465 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to [email protected] with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected]
