Packaging and mailing experiments for parasitic specimens

Summary

Parasite specimens include liquid-impregnated specimens, dried specimens, slide specimens, and live specimens, which are packaged and mailed in different ways for different specimen types. Mailing live mosquito eggs, must first be produced in the wet filter paper or nylon yarn on the mosquito eggs, placed at room temperature after 48 hours, to be mature eggs, with mosquito eggs with wet filter paper or wet nylon yarn, placed in a film plastic bags, can be placed directly in the envelope after the airmail (long-distance).

Operation method

Packaging and mailing of parasites

Materials and Instruments

Mosquito eggs
Formalin Alcohol
Glass bottles Plastic tubes Wooden boxes Paper Cotton plugs Slides

Move

I. Liquid immersion specimens

That is, with 70% alcohol or 5% to 10% formalin and other fixed liquid preservation of specimens, packed in the appropriate size of the glass bottle or plastic tube (bottle), attached to the pencil written record labels, such as full of preservation of the liquid, leaving no empty space, cover the tight bottle (tube) stopper, sealed with wax, and then, it will be placed in a wooden box, between the two can be shredded paper or cotton stuffed tightly around the box will be tightly nailed to the box, box surface indicates that the bottle towards the upper end of the The wooden box should be nailed tightly and the bottle should be marked on the surface of the box with the mark of the upward-facing end.
II. Dry specimens

Mainly dry insect specimens, single needle inserted in a glass tube or a large number of insects stored in glass bottles (tubes), the same method of mounting in a wooden box for mailing.
III. Slide specimens

General can be every two slides back-to-back merger, and then in the slide ends separated by thick paper or matchstick, every 20 to 30 slides, wrapped in paper, with a line (or rubber band) tight, with the above method in the wooden box (small wooden box) in the mail; can also be placed in a slide specimen box, between the slides with cotton or soft paper tightly stuffed, and then loaded into a small box in the postal mail. Should be in the specimen box and wooden box (box) up and down around the gap properly stuffed with some waste paper or cotton wool, so as to avoid shock damage to the specimen.
IV. Live specimens

Postal live mosquito eggs, must first be produced in a moist filter paper or nylon yarn on the mosquito eggs, placed at room temperature by 48 hours, to be egg development and maturity, before the mosquito eggs with a moist filter paper or wet nylon yarn, placed in a thin film plastic bag, can be placed directly in the envelope after the airmail (long-distance). Ticks and mites live specimens, you can take a wide-mouth bottle, into the damp sand and a piece of folded filter paper, ticks or mites into the bottle, with cotton plug the mouth of the bottle, and then another larger wide-mouth bottle, the bottom of the bottle cushion with wet cotton. Place the bottle containing the live specimen in this bottle, cork it with a notched cork (cut a notch lengthwise on both sides of the cork), and stuff the notch with cotton. For mailing, place the large-mouthed bottles in a wooden box with ventilation holes drilled in it. Wide-mouthed bottles can be used in accordance with the above method of bottled specimens in the box and marking and then mailed. Live nails can be wrapped in wet absorbent paper, placed in a small bamboo tube, stuffed with some wet cotton around the bamboo tube, around the bamboo tube to tie a few small holes, the open end of the bamboo tube should be covered with two layers of gauze, and then outside the tape sealed tightly mail; can also be several layers of wet paper wrapped nails in a small wooden box, the wooden box around the chiseled holes, nailed to a good wooden box, postal mail.

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