Cleaning dried specimens

mikeatnip · Post by **mikeatnip** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:12 pm

Seems I read here recently of someone spending hours cleaning dust off of dried specimens. Is there a method that works better than others? Air? Flowing water? Brush?
As can be seen, this one has accumulated plenty, and I didn't notice it until ready to stack.

johan · Post by **johan** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 7:04 am

Ultrasonic baths work well - see http://extreme-macro.co.uk/cleaning-insects/

mikeatnip · Post by **mikeatnip** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 6:24 am

johan wrote:Ultrasonic baths work well - see http://extreme-macro.co.uk/cleaning-insects/

Thanks! I had googled "how to clean insects" and all I got was info on how to clean them off a windshield.

NicoVB · Post by **NicoVB** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 8:52 am

mikeatnip wrote: Thanks! I had googled "how to clean insects" and all I got was info on how to clean them off a windshield.

Lol

Troels · Post by **Troels** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 11:13 am

Google is fine for common problems and common questions.
For special photographic topics www.photomacrography.net is better.

Searching this site for "cleaning insects" gave me 9 hits.
Here are the most relevant looking threads:

What do you use to clean your objects.
Cleaning insects - two good articles, and how not to do it
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Cleaning bugs
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Cleaning ...
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Killing bugs and Cleaning bugs

Unfortunately the links are not copied. You must do the search yourself.
Lots of knowledge and experience easily accessable. Good reading!

Troels

mikeatnip · Post by **mikeatnip** » Mon Oct 24, 2016 5:03 pm

Troels wrote: Searching this site for "cleaning insects" gave me 9 hits.
Troels

Thanks, Troels. I had searched on here, but I got way too many hits for my search terms. I think I used boolean AND rather than quotes, but not sure what I did. Using the quoted search term definitely narrowed it down from my previous attempt, which brought up pages that were useless.