no more buggin' out

I spent approx. 2 days at home before heading to Portland. Of those two days I spent about 10 hours finishing my goddamned bug collection. I had probably spent over 100 hours working on it already, no joke. So my family had to be displaced by hornets, butterflies, and beetles. They were not pleased. Since I worked so hard on it I figured I had to show everyone what the deal was. Behold:

This kinda shitty picture shows the box with the Orders Hymenoptera(Bees, Wasps, Ants, Sawflies), Coleoptera(Beetles), and Diptera(True Flies). All of the tiny top labels include: State, county, location vouchered, initials of surveyor, date vouchered, substrate the insect was found on, method of collection, latitude and longitude of collection site, and elevation of collection site. Whew! The second label includes identification down to species if possible, initials of IDer, and date determined. It took a long ass time.
This box included the Orthopterans and Hemipterans...it was the lonelier box. It took me a long time to glue back on all the legs and antennae that blew off at different points in the semester.
Here's another shot of the first box. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures of the boxes containing Odonates(dragonflies, damselflies) and lepidopterans(butterflies, moths) because they were in glassine envelopes and I didn't want to move them any more than I had to. I also had a box of wet mounted species, mostly Hemipterans, though I did have fleas, mayflies, and a termite. Yay! Anyway...I am no longer at risk of a heart attack and will shortly be flying to Costa Rica, where I hope to chase Morphos and Rhino beetles.