[Syrphidae] Re: FW: relaxing flies

[Sander Bot]

Thanks everybody for the advices, I will try some methods upcoming weeks,
cheers, Sander


Op do 29 sep. 2022 om 11:23 schreef Francis Gilbert <
Francis.Gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk>:

> from Robert
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> *From:* Robert Żóralski <r.zoralski at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 29 September 2022 08:46
> *To:* Sander Bot <botsander at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* hoverfly discussion list <syrphidae at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* Re: [Syrphidae] relaxing flies
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> If the case is only male genitalia dissection for photography, I never use
> the mentioned method, but only put the tip of the abdomen into warm water
> for a minute or a few. This is not invasive to any other parts of the
> specimen (wings, pillosity, potentially dna etc.), of course as long as you
> are especially careful with "mechanics" and get this practiced.
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> Robert
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> czw., 29 wrz 2022, 07:49 użytkownik Sander Bot <botsander at gmail.com>
> napisał:
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> Hi all,
>
> Sometimes I need to relax flies to extract genitalia or to model them for
> photography. I use the method described in the attached paper, which works
> really well. Working with steam has one disadvantage though, the wings
> often wrinkle.
> I heard there is a slower method to relax flies, which takes a day or so
> in which the wings do not wrinkle. Does anybody have experience with this
> and is happy to share this method?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sander
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