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I'll teach you how to pin the right way using old fasion ENTOpins, it is a how-to easy way of pinning a praying mantis.
How to Pin a praying mantis
Step 1: Hold your specimen in one hand,
Step 2: Insert an Entopin just above the wings and in between the long thorax and the wings.
Step 3: Once done step no. 1 insert pin from the bottom of your specimen to the board or foam you wish to pin it
on.
Step 4: Secure the legs using pins.
Step 5: put into the sun and wait 1hr then take it and put it into a spot
or a cage to dry out then.
Step 6: once all done, remove leg pins and hopefully, success.
Tip: To avoid the specimen darkening in colour, make a cut on one of the spiracles (easiest area to cut) then use tweesers
to disemboul the mantis, repeat all these steps i wanting to avoid this disfigureation.
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