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Insect pinning and curation

Subcategory: specimen preparation
Standard reference: Savage (2003), Savage and Sorokina (2021)
Papers: 3 | Mentions: 4

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Description

Standard protocol for preserving unidentifiable specimens in ethanol, followed by pinning and taxonomic identification in laboratory conditions.

Typical Equipment

  • vials
  • 70% ethanol
  • refrigeration
  • standard bee-pinning equipment

Output Measurements

  • species identification
  • specimen preservation

Papers Using This Protocol (3)

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Nowhere to go but Up: Investigating Bumble Bee population Shifts over Elevational Gradients

2024using
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Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought

2022Oikosusing
student_paper

Do bees show response diversity to environmental variables in a montane ecosystem?

2016using