It’s bloody hard to do! I’ve tried everything, from heating the needle to building a special harness to support the beetle so I don’t destroy its legs… Nothing works. I usually just end up pinning them through tergite I or II, but it’s a bitch to do without hitting the wings on adult specimens. The only other thing that I’ve found to work is pinning between the head and thorax, but that pushes out the head in an odd way and is quite fragile. Any tips?

Topics: bugs, insects, entomology, collection, beetle, Beetles, Coleoptera, pinning, sheissoweird