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. ----------------------------------------------------------- There are many sites on Google that show you how to quickly make insect killing jars. They nowadays use ether (flammable), chloroform (toxic) or ethyl acetate.
If the critters are not hard bodied, e.g. larvae, simply drop them in 80% rubbing alcohol, or better yet 40+ proof ethanol, which you can then keep hidden in your desk drawer for "medicinal purposes." If you want to have a bit more fun, have one of your M.D. buddies bring over a spray bottle of ethyl chloride spray… that's the stuff that the doc sprays on your skin to freeze it before giving you an injection. It's accurate from several feet away. Use the remainder to drive your coworkers nuts. Neil Carey On Sep 13, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Appelbaum & Himmelstein 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] 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]
