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Today's entomology collection work. I finally remembered to grab a before and after picture of a drawer! Also I cleaned up my workspace before leaving, of course, but the end of day shot of my pile is always funny.

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Entomology collection work for today. Got through the beetles, put the drawers back in order (and added in the processed donations through this point) and started on Diptera. There's a whole empty unit! Plenty of room for all the new stuff, but I'm going to keep working on it

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This week's volunteer work. I'm finished condensing the beetles. Next week I can actually start moving some of the specimen trays into the storage cabinets!

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Got a decent amount of snow here

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Today's entomology collection work, I'm back to condensing drawers. Eventually those empty spaces will get filled with all the donations I got moved into drawers.

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The other absolutely wild thing I found this week, doing entomology collection work, was this herbarium from 1895 stuck in the back of a drawer of random bug stuff. It's going to live in a much safer place with the other important plants now. Dozens of plants from over a century ago. Amazing.

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In this week's entomology collection work, I moved some incredibly old ants to long term safe storage. 1877. Amazing.

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Our cat Bella helping at the computer this morning.

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Moved so very bugs from these terrible storage boxes and cigar boxes to proper storage trays today. Cigar boxes might seem strange but many collection pests aren't fond of tobacco so they were actually a pretty useful cheap or free storage option in decades past.

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Doing entomology collection volunteer work today, moving specimens to better, more secure, storage units, and the oldest bug I've moved today was collected in 1895!

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We are building "the great wave", I've honestly never seen a Lego manufacturing defect before!

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This level of snow made it rather apparent which of the sedges we planted last year were happy and unhappy

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If anyone is curious, after talking to experts for advice, the proper way to ship a quart of bees to @zefrank.bsky.social is to wrap the frozen container of bees in padding, place it in a Styrofoam box with ice packs and more padding, then cram that box into a cardboard box and ship overnight.

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A video taken of my acorn worm scrunching itself under a tube worm case. It will probably be years until I see it again, but I'm happy if my pets are happy. This post is spelled correctly this time!

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Got the saltwater aquarium set up and cycled, so I reintroduced my acorn worm into the tank. It took a moment to get oriented.

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Today's entomology collection volunteer work, consolidating the contents of the existing collection to make room for additions. Showing a before and after of a drawer, and my work space before I cleaned it up 😅

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Cleaning out a saltwater tank (the final fish I had in it died and I want to completely redo it) and it turns out my accidental pet acorn worm is still alive! This dude hitched a ride on a live rock when it was like 2 centimeters long, it's getting closer to pinky size now!

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Today's enology collection work. A list of all the insect families in the collection. This took over six hours

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@mossworm.bsky.social after seeing your shared terrible collection I raise you these specimens I sorted today. So close to being helpful!

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Today in collection volunteer oddity, I finished cataloging the dragonflies and there are 30 more than the number listed in the donation paperwork. Much better than things being wrong in the other direction, but definitely very odd

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Making records of the dragonfly donation collection at the museum and this poor little guy got Isekai'd

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One really cool thing that was in the collection of dragonflies was this paratype specimen. It's a specimen that can be used to double check identification of other dragonflies of the species. It's really cool to hold a piece of entomology history.

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Spent yesterday organizing the donated dragonfly collection. Next week I'll be entering it all into a database so there's a record of what the museum owns

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Forgot to post these yesterday with... everything... but I managed to rough sort the backlog of donated specimens from the last thirty years or so. That plastic wrap was even more sticky than it looks

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A lovely lacewing

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Today's work station volunteering at the museum, and the final result. The butterfly donations have been sorted to family and placed in trays that will keep them safe.

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