This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Barbara,
The "kill jars" that entomologists use before pinning an insect in a collection use a small volume of acetone to quickly kill them. The easiest source for cheap acetone is fingernail polish remover, which works fine. Pour a bit over a paper towel (don't soak) in the bottom of a container and you are ready to go. Freezing can also work. Pat Patrick Kelley, Insects Limited, Inc. 16950 Westfield Park Road Westfield, IN 46074 USA Phone: (317) 896-9300 Fax: (317) 867-5757 Email: p.kel...@insectslimited.com<mailto:p.kel...@insectslimited.com> website: www.insectslimited.com<http://www.insectslimited.com/> ________________________________ From: ad...@museumpests.net [mailto:ad...@museumpests.net] On Behalf Of Appelbaum & Himmelstein Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:39 PM To: pestlist@museumpests.net Subject: [pestlist] killing bugs and leaving a beautiful corpse 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) aa...@mindspring.com<mailto:aa...@mindspring.com> website: aandhconservation.org<http://aandhconservation.org> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net 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 imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net 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 imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
