新技術頁!

我只是說明我的方法散播microlepidoptera, 去探索的技術頁面. Who is courageous enough to attempt it?

4 comments to New Technique Page!

  • That is a beautifully spread specimen!

  • 貢納爾

    To me, this is both encouraging and discouraging at once.

  • 貢納爾

    This looks awfully complicated compared to the animals I normally work with (moth flies – 雙翅目: Psychodidae). For each specimen of these I just have to
    fix the little bugger in ethanol
    dissect their bodies into tagmata, including removing the wings
    mount the wings on microscope slides
    bleech the remaining animal, most often by boiling them for a day in KOH
    acidify each dissected specimen (to balance out the KOH)
    dehydrate each dissected specimen in consecutive alcohol baths
    mount the head, thorax and abdomen on the same microscope slide as the wings without squashing any of them too flat to see the diagnostic characters
    wait some weeks for the slides to dry.

    This microlepidoptera mounting does on the other hand seem like lots of work. It does, 然而, seem quite rewarding; I will probably try some of these methods later in the season.