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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 12:53:50 GMT -8
can anyone ID me this specimen from oklahoma USA. may be a kind of Megaloptera (Corydalidae?) 75mm long regards pete Attachments:
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Post by prillbug4 on Aug 7, 2014 13:45:21 GMT -8
A female Corydalis cornutis Linnaeus. I'm very familiar with them. You might have to preserve it in ethyl alcohol, since the body tends to wrinkle when it's dried.
Jeff Prill
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 16:51:36 GMT -8
Watch out the females can bite hard.
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Post by leptraps on Aug 7, 2014 18:19:01 GMT -8
If you trout fish and want "Big" Trout, use the larva, Hellgrammites.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2014 0:01:57 GMT -8
Thanks for the ID. Yes I bet these can give you a bit of a pinch.
Pete
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Post by exoticimports on Aug 8, 2014 9:35:12 GMT -8
Two other options to preserving the abdomen are:
1. fill it with silicon
2. connect a air needle (the thing you use to fill balls) to an aquarium pump, pump it with air, and hit it with a hair dryer.
Hmmm...maybe we should have a separate thread on preserving catarpillars and soft bodies.
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