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. ----------------------------------------------------------- You may find it simpler to put it in a chest freezer overnight. Few insects will survive the rapid drop in temperature. A week to a fortnight in the freezer will kill even the hardy ones. Tony Irwin
Dr A.G.Irwin, Natural History Department, Castle Museum Study Centre, Shirehall, Market Avenue, Norwich NR1 3JQ, England. Tel:+44 1603 493642. E-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Appelbaum & Himmelstein Sent: 13 September 2012 19:39 To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] killing bugs and leaving a beautiful corpse 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] 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] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
