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Mikbaja

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Any one have any knowledge of how long a dragonfly would need to cure or dry before mounting in a shadowbox?
 
If you have it properly pinned out it really doesn't take all that long. Depends on your climate.
 
Rodney here was found on my workshop floor one morning about 5-6 years ago and has survived nicely so far since.
 

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Nicely done Lance.

I never could figure out what to do with those silly little cocktail napkins when I've got a perfectly fine shirt sleeve with a button on the end to let my nose know when the sleeve is about to end. :D
 
I have sold several butterfly mountings in the past and I don't think you want it to "dry" out completely. I position it the way I want it using rolled up pieces of fabric to hold the wings in place and let it set that way a few days...by then it usually holds the position pretty well. Then I make sure that I put a little silica packet in the package somewhere hidden to absorb and excess moisture.
 
Thanks did not think of the silica. He was on my work table one morning and his wings were perfect and the tail up at the end a little. Really perfect (just Dead) but otherwise perfect. Will hide the silica. Good idea that.
 
A few moth crystals in a small bag in the back of the package will keep away insect damage to your mount. You would be surprised at the damage a few insects will cause to another insect.

Jack Cee
 
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I know I'm just a guest here but these are really leaving a bad taste in my mouth. :(

And it's none of my business, so I've already said too much. So I think maybe I'll just be quiet for a while.
 
Gee johnny, if you gently saute the little critters in a bit of garlic and butter, it sears the wings off and stabilizes the powder on the body and the carapace takes on a wonder nutty flavor. I like to think of sauted dragon flies as soft centered almonds. They are really great with a side of buttered fava beans.
 
Baer Charlton said:
Gee johnny, if you gently saute the little critters in a bit of garlic and butter, it sears the wings off and stabilizes the powder on the body and the carapace takes on a wonder nutty flavor. I like to think of sauted dragon flies as soft centered almonds. They are really great with a side of buttered fava beans.
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Baer, your replies make me laugh everytime

thanks!
 
mikki said:
Any one have any knowledge of how long a dragonfly would need to cure or dry before mounting in a shadowbox?
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When I worked in the entomology lab, they were suitable for mounting as soon as they stopped squirming. In fact, the longer you waited, the more brittle and fragile they became.
 
Dress em up

Baer Charlton said:
All part of the job pamazon.

In fact my Thursday morning class focuses on.... :D
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Fabric wrapped dragonfly? Put him in a little tweed sports coat?
 
and Val...how did you come to work in an entomology lab? you little bugger you
 
Dawn it's a strange story. Something about a customer I had in a frame shop I worked in , who brought in some trout prints to frame and we yakked about fly-fishing, and because I tied my own flys, he thought I must know somethng about bugs and their habits and he thought I was the perfect person for the job, so he offered me a job at the vector-(disease-carrying-critters) control agency that he was the head administrator for (triple the pay at the frame shop I worked for at the time!), and I accepted (duh!), with benefits and all that, feeding and killing cockroaches and controlling yellowjackets and trapping and identifying and counting mosquitos and trolling for lyme-disease ticks and responsible for identifying and mounting any in-the-field-insects the crew could find and bring back, and that I was nuts-enough to deal with it all...I got the job. Honestly...I really liked that job! Did it for a couple years. Then I got back into framing. I still won't squish a bug.
 
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