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For labeling the most important things to include are the location where you found it and the date it was collected. That’s the basic info needed for anyone studying your collection later. If you want to go a step further, you can also add your name as the collector and a few details about the habitat like 'in a garden' or 'near a river'. The more detail you can provide, the better.

not sure, looks like about 2mm, but later I got "Stainless Steel Sprouting Lids for Wide Mouth Mason Jars" which work really well

@@NashTurley Awesome, thanks! I am also curious about the Whirl Pak size you used - is that the 58 mL ?

@@katelyncorbett20 yeah

Just leave in a container in the meantime it’ll be fine

Yes we are pinning them and storing them in insect drawers. I've posted some other videos on this channel about washing, drying, and pinning bees. Note however, insect should only be collected if you have a plan in place to get them properly procesed, labeled, and deposited in a natural history collection.

You could do this first then if you change ur mind just dunk em in sanitiser later lol

some bugs loose their color when pinned unfortantly, and I think that is true of cicadas (from my memory of seeing them in drawers). A bug could be pretty dry after a few days and would be too brittle to pin. If you want to pin the cicada then either rehydrate by putting in a container with moist paper towel, or put in 50-70% alcohol for a day or more. Being in alcohol will rehydrate enough to pin and may also have the advantage of getting rid of fungus that may be on there.

@@NashTurley omg thank you for the great advice! i should clarify that my specimen is a wasp called a cicada killer but i think your advice is gonna be a big help!

​@@phuzfaceI was lucky enough to get a cicada killer which was in the act of killing a cicada. They're attached to each other thanks to the cicada killer and floating in 70% isopropyl now.

@@someguy5271 what an amazing specimen display that must be!!🤩

I don't know about the specifics of your country / region, but in general resources from other countries could be helpful for identifying bees to genus level, assuming your area has similar genera (which may or may not be the case). Species-level identification would require resources / expertise from your area.

a lot of people put bowl traps elevated when there is tall vegetation, often with a piece of wood mounted on a pipe that is pounded into the ground. Often people put three bowls (one of each color) all next to each other.

hmm, not sure, just kinda generic wood. i actually prefer to use a piece of foam that's about 20 mm thick

Having bees in alcohol is not a necessary step, for example sometimes bees are killed by freezing or with a kill jar, but storing in alcohol is often convient or makes most sense if they are already wet (like from a trap). They can stay in alcohol perhaps indefinitely, but in some cases alcohol can make them brittle (especially if 90% or more) and more likely to break when pinning, but rehydrating them before pinning can get around that issue.

@@NashTurley okay doke thank you, I'm trying to get into pinning but it's kinda hard to find resources haha

I usually leave em in the jar till I wake up from passing out

I'm not familiar with this approach, I don't think research specimens are stored this way, but I could be wrong

@@NashTurley I'm using it to preserve them until I can afford the supplies to mount them in resin for educational aids

@@dougkyle685 can just use rubbing alcohol (70% isopropyl alcohol) which you can find most anywhere that has first aid supplies (drug store, walmart, etc)

I believe I have done a few syrphid flies using this method and it worked out well. But, in general flies are more squishy and delicate than bees so if you try it I suggest doing the washing stage very gently.

Hm, I'm not sure I understand the question, could you rephrase of give more specifics?

They are sold by a small company called BanfieldBio in Washington state. Get in touch with them, they will probably be able to ship internationally.

@@NashTurley thank you very much