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Gavin Draper Douglas, Contributor
Full name:
Gavin Draper Douglas
E-mail address:
Dravlynn@gmail.com
Contact:
You may email me if you wish to contact me
Dravlynn for gmail
I am subscribed to all my own posts, Ill be notified of comments as well and will read/reply when I get to them.
City, state, country:
Ogden Utah
Biography:

I am a amateur entomologist personally studying arthropods of the western US.

My collection explores and notes the diversity of arthropods in the western us, with a primary focus on northern Utah. Currently I have collected around 200-250 species, over 14 orders.

I mainly focus on trying to create dry specimen of what I collect. This will use a variety of techniques with chemicals, usually acetone and alcohol, to help me get dry specimen of normally soft bodied arthropods. I will also stuff larger specimen with cotton to help maintain form. I use linseed oil to replace water, helping keep the color in some of my specimen.

I have always been fascinated by the diversity of arthropods since my youth. I doubt I will ever shake this fascination with arthropods.


The majority of my imaged specimen are shot with focus stacked photography using Zerene Stacker as the software. I have a dedicated stacking rail to reliably and consistently render images of my specimen.
https://zerenesystems.com/cms/stacker

I now accept voucher/ donated specimen, I will pay for shipping on certain species. Specimen given to me will be imaged and uploaded. I only take dead specimen (no Chelicerates) from the US and Canada west of the Mississippi river. Specimen must be a species not already in my collection. Collection data must be provided for the specimen, email me if anyone is interested.
These images (including images on my inaturalist profile) are and will remain Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/legalcode

I intend all my images uploaded to this site and Inaturalist to be available for public use.

Inaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=feisla&verifiable=any

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100092710865859
License terms for content submitted by this contributor:


Some rights reserved. Licensed under a Creative Commons License.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/legalcode

807 images submitted by this contributor
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Gavin .D.D

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