farmer legend

Chapter 25 Making Butterfly Specimens (For Collection)

The next day, Tang Shenyuan played for a long time and met a few Banna newts. Tang Shenyuan didn't let everyone disturb these rare animals. Huang Qiuxiang and the others, as senior travel friends, knew that these rare animals were protected by the state and could not be moved casually. Yes, but Liu Huan took some pictures of them.

At noon, everyone went down the mountain and took all the garbage away, otherwise it would pollute the environment. We still have common sense about this.

Yang Wanli and his old man once had a poem saying: "Mo Yan goes down the mountain without difficulty, earning a lot of love from passers-by. Just entering the circle of Wanshan, one mountain passes another mountain barrier."

When going up the mountain, everyone was full of enthusiasm, and when going down the mountain, there was a lot of mourning and complaints, especially the fat guy, with a physique of more than 200 kilograms, was trembling when walking, making people worry that he would fall down at any time...

Back at Tang Shenyuan's house, the first thing everyone did was to make specimens of the butterflies they caught in Butterfly Valley!There are a few particularly beautiful butterflies that must be stuffed, otherwise they will be wasted!
Tang Shenyuan turned the room upside down, and finally found the tools used to make butterfly specimens when he was a child, insect needles, wing spreaders, pins, specimen boxes...

"Bring the butterfly!" Tang Shenyuan said to Dong Xiyu.

These butterflies were all Dong Xiyu wanted, and other people would not snatch them from a girl, but only Tang Shenyuan could make specimens, and the others could only watch from the sidelines.

"Shenyuan, didn't you say that you had made many specimens when you were young, are you still there?" Xu Yufeng asked boredly.He is not interested in how to make butterfly specimens, he just likes to admire butterfly specimens.

"It's still there, it's in the specimen box over there!" Tang Shenyuan pointed to the box on the desk and said, and then continued to make butterfly specimens.

Dong Xiyu watched Tang Shenyuan make specimens with great interest, and the beauties watched from the side. Tang Shenyuan was very motivated and worked very carefully. From time to time, he gave some production knowledge to Dong Xiyu. It is enough for Dong Xiyu who knows nothing!

"First, select an insect needle of appropriate thickness and insert it from the center of the back of the chest so that the needle passes through the middle of the forefoot and middle foot. It should be noted that the insect needle should be perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the butterfly body, and the upper part of the needle should be left with an appropriate wing plate. Adjust the distance between the two plates according to the size of the butterfly body, insert the specimen needle into the bottom of the groove of the wing plate, and make the butterfly body parallel to the plate surface..."

Dong Xiyu said: "This is very easy!"

"Don't think it's easy for me to do it. It's actually because the butterfly is alive. Some dead butterflies will have their bodies stiff. At that time, some methods must be used to soften them... The position of the antennae, use Gently move the dissecting needle to be parallel to the front edge of the forewing, press it with a small piece of waste film, and insert it into the film with an insect needle to fix it... It takes about a day for the specimen to dry!"

Tang Shenyuan picked up another butterfly. This butterfly may have been caught too carelessly, and the position of the wings was a bit damaged!
"Look, this butterfly needs to be repaired!"

Dong Xiyu looked at the butterfly in Tang Shenyuan's hand, and sure enough, the butterfly's right wing was broken, and a good butterfly became unattractive.

"so what should I do now?"

"It doesn't matter, I'll fix it!" Tang Shenyuan placed the specimen on the wing spreading board, then cut a relatively small piece of transparent paper, coated it with super glue, and pasted it on the back of the butterfly's wing membrane, and then glued the broken wing on it. A complete butterfly came out! "How is it? Pretty?"

"It's so beautiful, much prettier than before!" Dong Xiyu's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but praise.

This compliment moved Tang Shenyuan's heart. Is there anything more pleasing than a compliment from a beautiful woman?

"Ah! This one-tailed brown swallowtail butterfly is dead, it was fine just now!" Dong Xiyu suddenly shouted, looking very nervous.

This single-tailed brown swallowtail butterfly is very precious, and everyone spent a lot of time catching it before!No wonder she was so nervous!Even Li Jiyi, who had never cared about Tang Shenyuan's making specimens, cared about it...

"Hehe, it doesn't matter." Tang Shenyuan smiled confidently, "Didn't I just say that even though it is dead, I can still 'revitalize' it!"

"Oh?" Liu Huan didn't seem to believe Tang Shenyuan's words. He didn't listen to Tang Shenyuan's words seriously before, but now he was a little skeptical when he heard that.

Tang Shenyuan ignored him and said to himself: "There are three ways to soften the body of a butterfly. The first is the specimen softening method! The tool used to soften the specimen is called a softening device, which is made of a chemical called a dryer. The instrument is modified and replaced. When using it, first put a layer of clean sand on the bottom of the instrument, or spread a layer of absorbent cotton, pour clean water, and add a few drops of carbolic acid to prevent mildew. Then put the specimen that needs to be softened on the tray in the instrument. Do not touch the specimen with water, and apply some Vaseline to the mouth of the device to seal it tightly. The moisture will soften the specimen, and the softening time varies with the size of the insect body and the temperature. It is a dry and hard specimen that has lasted for more than ten years, or even decades. In summer, it usually takes one to three days, and it can be completely softened in a week at most, which is similar to the freshly collected specimens. The butterfly wings can be stretched freely, and can be arranged and made at will. If there is no softener, various covered containers can be substituted. Even tureen, petri dish, etc. can be used, which can also make the specimen soft..."

Tang Shenyuan babbled a lot, and none of the people next to him could understand.

"The second method is the quick softening method. Inject hot water into the butterfly body with a syringe and soften it within a few minutes." Tang Shenyuan continued: "I am using this method now!"

As Tang Shenyuan said, gently pinch the base of the butterfly's body and wings with his left finger, making the butterfly's wings perpendicular to the horizontal plane, with the butterfly's wings above the butterfly's body.Hold the syringe in your right hand, insert the needle from the junction of the butterfly chest and abdomen to the head, slowly inject water, and continue to insert the needle toward the head from time to time, until the wings are unfolded by the wind, and then gently use tweezers Move the base of the antennae of the butterfly until it can move, indicating that the specimen has softened, and Tang Shenyuan stretches the wings and adjusts the posture of the butterfly.

"What about the third point?" Dong Xiyu asked.

"Hehe, the third point is the method of indirect heating, fast and soft!" Tang Shenyuan gently fixed the single-tailed brown swallowtail butterfly in his hand to the wing spreader, and continued: "First heat the alcohol to about the boiling point, Gently pinch the butterfly wings with your hands, and immerse the head, chest and wing base of the butterfly in hot alcohol, and the specimen can be softened within a few minutes. The advantage of softening the specimen with alcohol is that it can shorten the drying time after the whole posture and wings are spread. Summer After one hour, the specimen will be dry again and can be put into the specimen box."

Dong Xiyu's eyes were full of little stars, and now she only thought that Tang Shenyuan was so powerful, he could actually speak clearly about making butterfly specimens!
"Shen Yuan..." Xu Yufeng shouted over there.

"What's wrong?" Tang Shenyuan asked back.

"Where did you get these stones?" Xu Yufeng asked Tang Shenyuan in surprise, holding a strange-looking stone in his hand.

Xu Yufeng is a collector, and he is also quite dabbled in strange stones. Some people like to play with strange stones!Some strange stones are particularly beautiful and worth collecting and viewing!

"Ah, I seem to have seen this butterfly somewhere!" The fat man suddenly exclaimed.

Dong Xiyu was taken aback by the fat man's yell, "You fat man, do you want to scare people to death by being so startled?"

"No, no..." The fat man shook his fat hand, pointing to a specimen box and said, "Look, this butterfly is so beautiful! I seem to have seen it in the introduction..."

Huang Qiuxiang also went to watch. He was also very curious about what butterfly could surprise Fatty so much?
"This is the big purple nymph! The national butterfly of Japan!" Huang Qiuxiang couldn't help but said.

"That's right, that's right, it's Japan's national butterfly—the big purple nymph!" Fatty suddenly realized, "Why do I say it's so familiar? I've seen those introductions!"

"The national butterfly of Japan?" Not only Li Jiyi and Liu Huan were curious, but Xu Yufeng and Dong Xiyu were also attracted by what they said.

Tang Shenyuan didn't speak, Huang Qiuxiang continued: "The big purple nymph, the male butterfly has dark brown wings with a bronze green luster, and has a rich iridescent purple permeating it, and the female butterfly is brown, but without purple iridescence. The ventral forewing of both sexes shows Dark brown with white spots and light gray wing tips. The ventral sides of the hindwings are light gray green with light and pink spots at the base. This butterfly is a strong flyer and can be seen every month in summer!"

"Unexpectedly, Brother Huang, you know this butterfly so well!" Tang Shenyuan was very surprised.

"Hehe, didn't you stay in Japan for a while a few years ago? Those Japanese friends always told me about this, so I know something!" Huang Qiuxiang said very calmly.

Tang Shenyuan already admired Huang Qiuxiang's knowledge very much at this time, although he just talked about this butterfly lightly, but if he is not a person with extensive knowledge and knowledge, how can he say it as soon as he sees this butterfly? history?
"Since it has such a history, I don't know how much it is worth?" Li Jiyi is this kind of person, who always interrupts people's conversations, but since he asked first, everyone looked at Tang Shenyuan, Huang Qiuxiang, and even Xu Yufeng.

"Vulgar!" Xu Yufeng probably hated people like Li Jiyi the most, who always measured things by money.

"Hehe..." Seeing everyone looking at him again, Tang Shenyuan spread his hands and said, "I don't know, it was just a hobby at the time. After catching this butterfly, I made it into a specimen, and then I didn't care about it. As for the price, I really don't care about it." have no idea!"

"I have some estimates." Huang Qiuxiang said: "This kind of butterfly is very precious. If you meet someone you like, hundreds of thousands will be no problem!"

"The price is okay! But it won't be Japanese yen, right?" Li Jiyi suddenly remembered the exchange rate issue after nodding, and asked.

"Of course not, who would use that money to measure prices?"

As soon as Huang Qiuxiang finished speaking, everyone couldn't help laughing...

Yen, huh... Yen to RMB, 0.006:1, you can calculate it, it is estimated that you will feel dizzy!
PS: Xiaoguan has something to do at noon, so I will add another chapter this morning, get up early and ask for a recommendation ticket!Everyone can't stop tickets~
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