Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Storing flies in alcohol

Posted by Adrian on 23-10-2007 08:46
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If one puts a microvial in with the same tube as the specimen it would have to be secured in some way otherwise it would be like putting the specimen in a bead mill:- it would soon be utterly destroyed.
So presumably the microvial has to be secured somehow inside the specimen tube, in a way where it will not move, there are no dead spaces into which the specimen can move, and in which both it and the specimen can easily be removed for examination.
How is this done?
cheers
Adrian