How to dry and mount larvae

[Paul K]

I would like to invite everyone with experience of mounting dry larvae for display in drawers to share their technics .

[enry]

Hi Paul K....
I always see some preserved butterfly and moths larvae when I visit the Entomodena fair....I talked to the owner of these and he told me that he was a tassidermist.....well, he says that preserving larvae is quite difficult.... First of all, he empties the body using a syringe and then , even with a syringe he fills the body with silicone....Finally he re-paints the larva using acrylic colors in order to make the larva as real as possible..... he uses the same technique with the spiders's abdomens but he doesn't repaint them.

Enrico