Insect Collection Photographs – Part I
/My son-in-law has an insect collection that he’s mounted in wooden boxes – carefully labeled – to use for reference and outreach. He took the top covers off to make them easier to photograph.
The dragonflies look very much as they do when alive.
He pointed out the Dobson flies – what hellgrammites (benthic macroinvertebrates) grow up to be. It’s always very exciting to find the larvae in our stream surveys…we don’t see the adults as often. Both specimens appear to be females since the males have longer mandibles.
Not an invertebrate I want to see in a house when it’s alive!
Some of the insects are pinned to display their wing patterns with one side folded…the other unfurled.
I’ll share more for other boxes tomorrow….butterflies and moths.
