{"id":2638,"date":"2023-01-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gardenecologylab\/?p=2638"},"modified":"2025-10-31T23:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:12:45","slug":"what-happens-to-the-bees-we-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/gardenecologylab\/2023\/01\/10\/what-happens-to-the-bees-we-catch\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens to the bees we catch?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Insect collections are a good hobby to have, and an even better tool for research. One might think you just go catch insects and pop them into a box, but a little more needs to happen in order to preserve them for a collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depending on your collection method, washing, blow drying, pinning, and labelling all need to happen to keep our collection usable! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After doing these steps and putting them in a box, our wonderful Jen Hayes and taxonomists will identify them to species. There are so many morphs and intricacies that you may not even realize two look-alike bees may just be completely different species. My favorite thing about the process is seeing the fluffy bumblebees after blow-drying! \ud83d\udc1d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, here&#8217;s a short video showing how we go from catch to box! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q_O1NCZIJhw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Video and music made by Devon Johnson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insect collections are a good hobby to have, and an even better tool for research. One might think you just go catch insects and pop them into a box, but a little more needs to happen in order to preserve them for a collection. 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