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<p>Hi Sander,</p>
<p>I let the dried specie sit in a closed container (plastic/glass)
with some <font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><i>Prunus
laurocerasus</i></font> (en:cherry laurel, nl:Laurier kers)<b><br>
</b>leaves<b>. <br>
</b></p>
<p>The leaves need to be prepared upfront though by bruising them
and left in its own closed jar for a week or so till they become
brown. When you open the jar is you will smell "nl:bitterkoekjes,
en:macaroons??" then you know it ready. This can be kept good for
years.</p>
<p>The already brown leaves produce<span class="mw-page-title-main">
tiny bits of cyanide. This </span><span
class="mw-page-title-main">will help relax the dried specie.</span></p>
<p><span class="mw-page-title-main">With these leaves you also can
keep for instance unpinned specimens relaxed during your travel
so you can pin them later at home </span><span
class="mw-page-title-main"><span class="mw-page-title-main">(check
for fungi though, so not to wet)</span>. I also use it is as
relatively good killing agent.<br>
</span></p>
<p><span class="mw-page-title-main">I personally use </span><span
class="mw-page-title-main">cherry laurel successfully for
decades. <br>
</span></p>
<p><span class="mw-page-title-main">A nice anecdote: One time I only
got stopped at the US customs as I declared I was taking plant
material into the country, don't do that! It took me a long time
to persuade the customs to let me pass into the country with </span><span
class="mw-page-title-main"><span class="mw-page-title-main">cyanide</span>,
hehehe ;-)<br>
</span></p>
<p><span class="mw-page-title-main">Cheers,</span></p>
<p><span class="mw-page-title-main">Bastiaan<br>
</span></p>
<p><span class="mw-page-title-main"><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br>
<br>
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. <br>
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?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
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