Dried, pinned, and labeled specimens of many of the most well-known orders. Better quality insect specimens than the beginner's insect collection. Great for your school insect collection projects (you know, the one that is due at the end of the week and you haven't even started). Usually contains over 35-40 insects with about 8-9 major orders. Fulfills most of the teacher's requirements. Excellent teacher's aid for classroom use. Each set is different but may include an assortment of Coleoptera (beetles), Lepidoptera (butterflies & moths), Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies), Orthoptera (grasshoppers & crickets), Diptera (flies & mosquitoes), Neuroptera (lacewings & ant lions), Hemiptera (true bugs), Homoptera (Cicadas, leaf hoppers, aphids), Phasmida (walking sticks), Dermaptera (earwigs), Dictyoptera (mantids and cockroaches) and Hymenoptera (ants, bees & wasps). Types of insects and quantities will vary, but will be approximately as shown in picture. Most of these are from the southwestern United States (Arizona and California), but many are fairly common elsewhere. These come in a throw-away cardboard box with foam bottom, and are meant to be put into your own collection box. This has larger and better quality specimens than the smaller insect collection, but they are not A-1 quality. Some missing antennae or legs may occur. Best quality (A-1) is available (with a 3-4 week wait), but only by special order and prices will vary depending on insects' value. Please be aware that these are a labor-intensive item and take a very long time to catch, pin, mount, dry, identify, label, sort and organize. The price for these is mainly for the labor that is put into them, with secondary pricing based on the value of the individual insects. ***Due to extraordinarily high demand, this item quickly sells out and we are often forced to make this a waiting list item. Should this become waiting list, the only way to be placed on the waiting list is to place your order online. This will "time stamp" your order and place you on the list in sequential order and the collections will be sent out accordingly. As these are packaged in a precisely certain way to prevent breakage, we cannot accept returns unless the package has been unopened. (Due to the fact that they just cannot ever be re-packaged properly by an inexperienced person). Should any breaks occur during shipping, after the package has been opened, we will replace or refund the particular insect that is broken. Please let us know the date you need this.Individual insects may be ordered. We generally have some pinned and labeled "loose" lepidoptera, hemiptera, coleoptera, hymenoptera, diptera, neuroptera, isoptera and a few others on-hand. For greater value, we also have dried un-labeled and papered insects (Insects such as butterflies, moths etc. placed inside glassine envelopes). Many of these are not labeled. You will have to humidify, spread, pin, identify and label them yourselves. (In other words, you will need to do a little bit of your own homework). For these "other" insects, you will need to e-mail a list of your desired insects, date you need them, your name, address, phone # etc. We will contact you with a quote and will get your credit card information at that time (don't send that information in e-mail). Minimum purchase for these special order insects is $40.00. Seasonal item. YOUR ORDER WILL BE PLACED ON OUR WAITING LIST AND THEY WILL BE SHIPPED OUT AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE ON A FIRST-COME BASIS. |
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