Films about Professional Skills of Forestry Research Institute in 2011 - Making of Insect Specimen
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- Taiwan Forestry Research Institute
Insects collected in the wild should be cleaned up and their natural states should be maintained before being made into various specimens through immersion into specific liquid or drying for the purpose of long-term preservation, which can be used for education, exhibition or academic communication. This film presents the standard method of making pinned insect specimens in the sequence of introduction of tools to be used, pinning method,height adjustment, legs and wings stretching method, drying, removal of pins and label application.
