Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Pinning flies from 70% alcohol

Posted by John Bratton on 20-12-2008 12:29
#7

In reply to Nosferatumyia, three messages back:

I meant take them from the 70% alcohol that they are stored in, through a couple of lower alcohol/higher water media, then dry them. The idea was to rehydrate the muscles or connective tissues that would otherwise distort the fly as they lost their alcohol. I don't know why the drying of hydrated tissues causes less distortion than the drying of alcohol-saturated tissues, but it seems to.

But the other people's suggestions sound much better than mine.

John