Pinning

The trick to spreading wings is to cut out some styrofoam and strips of paper, place the styrofoam beneath the wings, spread them out on the styrofoam, and then place the strips of paper on top of the wings so you can pin the piece of paper to the styrofoam to hold the wing in the unfolded position without poking holes in the wing.

 
I was planning on it but I got so excited that I didn't think. At first, I was getting the wings up but they would just fold over the pin. At last resort, I just pinned it near the vein. I might continue to try spreading wings but honestly I feel like it just takes up frame space. I kind of just want to spread the rest of my specimens like Satanas did in that nice case.
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There are several ways to pin insects and some of them are meant to fully show off the features of an insect, some of them are meant to show just the important features for identification, and some methods are for maintaining large collections and saving space.

 
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