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Hi Daniel

I anesthetise them with ethyl acetate for a few minutes ( until they stop moving ) and photograph them as they recover, which they always do :)
I then put them in the fridge so that I can repeat the process & take more shots if needed. They seem to survive quite happily (?) for 3 - 4 days and then I release them. For me this is preferable to killing and pinning them, although of course it doesn't give me voucher specimens for future comparison.
To get the white background I photograph them in an old ice cream box using flash & the camera on a tripod.

Peter