How to preserve butterflies

Butterflies are beautiful to look at, and collectors enjoy preserving multiple species to admire their wing patterns. If you've found a dead butterfly or captured one that you want to save, you can either pin it in a display case or...

Butterflies are beautiful to look at, and collectors enjoy preserving multiple species to admire their wing patterns. If you've found a dead butterfly or captured one that you want to save, you can either pin it in a display case or...

We love finding new specimens to add to Elliot’s nature collection. They’re a great resource for his nature studies and I’ve really enjoyed refining my process of preserving specimens over the past couple of years. I have a bit of experience pinning a variety of different insects, but am most familiar with butterflies and moths,

Learn how to preserve insects in resin, including how to get rid of bubbles in resin and how to avoid them in the first place by mixing the right way! I’m also sharing how to dry and prep insects for resin using dead Brood X cicadas.

We love finding new specimens to add to Elliot’s nature collection. They’re a great resource for his nature studies and I’ve really enjoyed refining my process of preserving specimens over the past couple of years. I have a bit of experience pinning a variety of different insects, but am most familiar with butterflies and moths,

How To Start Pinning Butterflies and Insects If you plan on starting any type of insect collection, pinning your bugs is the most effective way of preservation for most types of insects with exoskeletons. At first glance you may think that pinning insects is as simple as taking your dried insect, poking it to a board a

We love finding new specimens to add to Elliot’s nature collection. They’re a great resource for his nature studies and I’ve really enjoyed refining my process of preserving specimens over the past couple of years. I have a bit of experience pinning a variety of different insects, but am most familiar with butterflies and moths,

We love finding new specimens to add to Elliot’s nature collection. They’re a great resource for his nature studies and I’ve really enjoyed refining my process of preserving specimens over the past couple of years. I have a bit of experience pinning a variety of different insects, but am most familiar with butterflies and moths,

Get ready, I’m about to share some secrets. Well, not secrets per se, but stuff I figured out on my own and haven’t shared before. With Summer finally on the horizon, we are all spending more time outdoors enjoying the beauty of the season. Flowers in bloom, and so many intense colors popping...great inspiration for jewelry, no? I love incorporating unusual bits and pieces into my jewelry designs. Everything from leaves and flowers to opossum, raccoon and coyote teeth. Some of these oddities…

I have a habit of coming up with projects I want to do, running out and getting materials for it, and then carefully putting it away with my huge artillery of craft supplies… and completely f…