#insect pinning

[something-feral]

30.07.23

#lou #louspictures #bugs #insects #butterflies #moths #stick insect #insect pinning

[livingdeadbxtch]

everybody wants a goth gf until she’s preserving insects for long-term collection and mounting them in large elaborate glass top wood display cases

#it’s me #i’m her #taxidermy #insect pinning #entomology

[morbidsmenagerie]

Got to see an awesome collection today!

#invertebrates #invertiblr #inverts #invert #bugblr #insect pinning #entomology

[fragile-cherub]

My first time pinning and framing insects c: I love them <3

#vulture culture #insects #insect pinning #bugs #butterfly #beetle #beetle pinning #butterfly pinning #home decor

[samimarkart]

pin-up, acrylic on taxidermied stag beetle, felt, glue and shadow box, 7x7 inches

an older piece made comparing the histories of insect pinning and domestic sewing - both processes including pins and needles. the imagery painted is that of a classing tomato and pepper pincushion. made at the height of my fascination with pinning my own insects for art reference purposes (i pinned this beetle myself)

this piece is available for sale, $145 including shipping, please message me with if interested :)

#my art #painting #art #acrylic painting #insect #bugs #bug art #taxidermy #insect pinning #sewing #stag beetle #beetle

[florallyconscious]

Assorted Sphinx Moth Collection - Indiana State University

#moths #Pachysphinx modesta #Paonias myops #Smerinthus jamaicensis #Manduca pellenia #Sphinx moth #incredibly obsessed with this box i found in the insect collection at school #really good for my moth tattoo ideas #insect photography #insect cw #insect pinning #(Not my pins Im just the specimen museum curator) #™

[sapphicnunnery]

help??

where do I find insect pinning supplies. I don’t have any pinning supply stores near me, and I’m very hesitant to order online, especially since so many websites just sell knockoffs of anything, and I really don’t want anything to rust, degrade, or otherwise go wrong. I currently have a bee in my freezer, and I’d really like to get her out soon, but I don’t have any resources for pinning. What websites do you suggest buying from? I will also probably be getting some moths soon (my friends and their uncle raised moths) so I will also probably need a spreading board, where do you recommend I get one of those?

#entomology #bugs #bugblr #insects #insect pinning #bug pinning #invertebrates #invertiblr #bees #beetle #wasp

[buggys-toy-box]

Me and Punkity pinned a harlequin longhorn beetle today!

#buggys toy box #bug tw #bugs tw #toy #toys #popples #vintage toy #insect #bug #bugs #beetle #insect pinning #bug pinning

[systembug]

A bit of advice, please

I'm about to preserve an insect in alcohol for the first time. I got a cute tiny bottle for it, but it has a cork instead of a lid. Is there a way to seal it with something else? Or can i just leave the cork? I'm worried that it will soak in the alcohol and fall apart. If anyone has experience, please help <3

#bugblr #bugposting #entomology #insect pinning

[the-reclawmation-studio]

Migratory locusts pinned in 3 different poses. Which is your favourite?

These are natural deaths from my breeding colony.

#locust. #insect pinning #vulture culture #taxidermy #insect death #dead insect #i breed them partially for pet food and partially just to have as pets #i love bugs and am very much a bugkeeping person #I've had many different bugs over the years #btw the taxidermy prices behind them are my mentors and not mine #pinned bugs #bug pinning

[bitsbug]

anyways here's my current bug collection

#inspired to post by a mutual on here #every bug here was scavenged already dead from when i go on walks #left is all hymenoptera #right is all coleoptera #middle is assorted other orders and wasps i didn't have space for. and a potato beetle for fun #bits' bugs #bugs #dead bugs #insect pinning #insects #hehee i love my bug hobby

[kaylakat2]

Now that I've finally gotten around to finishing my saved for later projects, I would like to share my insect pinning magnum opus. A shadow box full of nearly every insect I've ever worked on!

(Close ups and image descriptions below the keep reading. Image description also includes all speculative ids that are present on the labels you can see in the photos, so if you're curious as to what something is check there!)

I started this when I was still super new at the hobby, so some specimens are better preserved than others, but it's nice to see my improvement with all of them together. It's also nice to see a sort of representation of all the insect life around me with them.

A lot of these are also in rough shape since I scavenge all of my specimens (usually dead or dying), or am given scavenged specimens, and very few of them were raised or captured for the purpose of pinning. I think this definitely adds to the fun of the hobby though, since each one has a pretty unique story about how it was found or acquired.

Most ID's are also still subject to change and some are still speculative, since I do all my own research for them and am definitely not perfect.

[Image ID: One wide shot image of a black board with various insects displayed on it, with small hand written labels next to, above, or below each specimen. 8 images follow as close ups of each group of specimens. The first displays a painted lady butterfly, scientific name cynthia, next to two tomato hornworm moths, scientific name Manduca quinquemaculata, with two june beetle, scientific name cotinis nitida, and ten striped june beetle, scientific name polyphylla decemlineata, underneath. The second displays a white lined sphinx moth, scientific name hyles lineata, next to a nevada buckmoth, scientific name hemileaca nevadensis, and a monarch butterfly, scientific name danaus plexippus. The third displays two clear winged grasshoppers, scientific name camnula pellucida. The fourth displays two california mantis, scientific name stagmomantis californica, one is displayed on its back, the other on its belly. The fifth and sixth display two views of two scorpions, both either yellow ground scorpions, scientific name Paravaejovis confusus, or arizona bark scorpions, scientific name centraroides sculpturatus. The seventh displays a common green darner dragonfly, scientific name anax junius, and a shed dragonfly nymph exoskeleton. The eighth displays the exoskeleton of a giant water bug, scientific name abedus indentatus, next to a digger bee, scientific name anthophora spp, with a yellow faced bumble bee, scientific name bombus vosnesenskii, next to the digger bee. Below these three specimen are two other bee specimen, a western carpenter bee, scientific name xylocopa californica, and a valley carpenter bee, scientific name xylocopa varipunctata, as well as a yellow legged mud dauber wasp, scientific name sceliphron caementarium. End ID]

#entomology #insect pinning #scorpion #butterfly #mantis #bee #moth #insect tw #drowsy draws #(the drowsy draws tag applies to all my art. even if it's not a drawing per se. so this goes here too!)

[morbidsmenagerie]

Pinned weevils.

#invertebrates #invertiblr #inverts #invert #bugblr #insect pinning #entomology #weevil #pinned insects #pdxinsectarium

[chupacabracrafts]

Precious dead bumblebee I found and pinned recently

#dead things #insect #insect pinning #entomology #specimen #bees #bumblebee #vulture culture #pinned #death #rebirth #witches

[samimarkart]

figuring out how to document this series of poems! i’m calling then specimen poems. they’re paired with previously unlabeled insects in my collection in the hopes of giving them a kind of home in old and new memories i have. each poem follows the labeling structure for insect collections with a title instead of a species, followed by a time indicator, three lines of location and the name of the collector

#my art #bugs #poetry #poems #insect #taxidermy #insect pinning #art #writing

[bettercallroasty]

COMMISSIONS OPEN

-2 SLOTS AT A TIME.

I do taxidermy shadow box commissions.

Right now it is only for insects.

Everything I use is real and carefully created.

You have full customization freedom, though I can suggest foliage, decorations and even specimin for you.

I can try to create a plan for those of you who are low budget as well.

I have a wide range of bugs I can get! If you're not sure of what you want, I can link you to what is available.

I can do larger frames as well as multiple Specimen in one frame.

I can do themed shadow boxes etc. It is really up to what you would like.

Please send me a direct message here if interested or my Instagram Comrade_roasty

Before payment I will provide a list of all the costs so you know exactly what you are paying for.

Got something specific u want in ur box? Show it to me! I can even make memorial boxes !

SHARES APPRECIATED!!!

#taxidermy commission #taxidermy #taxidermy art #moths #shadow box #shadow box art #dead insects #preserved insects #butterflies #butterfly #moth art #hawk moth #deaths head moth #commisions open #commissions #bug taxidermy #bug preservation #insect pinning #bugs