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: Non-fogging methods.

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;Kerosine Flotation

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==Kerosine Flotation==

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: The kerosine flotation trick is widely used by acarologists and entomologists with dirty samples. Take a sample in water, salt water, alcohol, or whatever that has a lot of soil or other heavy gunk in it. Add a bit of kerosine, and shake the sample gently. Kerosine wets (sticks to) chitin. Let the kerosine float to the top with the specimens, then decant the kerosine and specimens through a mesh filter. I have filter pans with fine stainless steel mesh, but you could use disposable paint filters. Wash the sample with absolute alcohol to dissolve off the kerosine, then enjoy your specimens.

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The kerosine flotation trick is widely used by acarologists and entomologists with dirty samples. Take a sample in water, salt water, alcohol, or whatever that has a lot of soil or other heavy gunk in it. Add a bit of kerosine, and shake the sample gently. Kerosine wets (sticks to) chitin. Let the kerosine float to the top with the specimens, then decant the kerosine and specimens through a mesh filter. I have filter pans with fine stainless steel mesh, but you could use disposable paint filters. Wash the sample with absolute alcohol to dissolve off the kerosine, then enjoy your specimens.

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; [https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/3851e3a1-10c8-4875-a2c6-0ab63ea7b876/download/2f6ab57e-d9ff-4a70-ab4c-eba60f1b7977 Kerosene floatation extraction protocol]

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: pages 131-6. Appendix III in "Biodiversity of soil arthropods in a native grassland in Alberta, Canada: obscure associations and effects of simulated climate change"

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 : Non-fogging methods.
-;Kerosine Flotation
+==Kerosine Flotation==
-: The kerosine flotation trick is widely used by acarologists and entomologists with dirty samples.  Take a sample in water, salt water, alcohol, or whatever that has a lot of soil or other heavy gunk in it.  Add a bit of kerosine, and shake the sample gently.  Kerosine wets (sticks to) chitin.  Let the kerosine float to the top with the specimens, then decant the kerosine and specimens through a mesh filter.  I have filter pans with fine stainless steel mesh, but you could use disposable paint filters.  Wash the sample with absolute alcohol to dissolve off the kerosine, then enjoy your specimens.
+The kerosine flotation trick is widely used by acarologists and entomologists with dirty samples.  Take a sample in water, salt water, alcohol, or whatever that has a lot of soil or other heavy gunk in it.  Add a bit of kerosine, and shake the sample gently.  Kerosine wets (sticks to) chitin.  Let the kerosine float to the top with the specimens, then decant the kerosine and specimens through a mesh filter.  I have filter pans with fine stainless steel mesh, but you could use disposable paint filters.  Wash the sample with absolute alcohol to dissolve off the kerosine, then enjoy your specimens.
+; [https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/3851e3a1-10c8-4875-a2c6-0ab63ea7b876/download/2f6ab57e-d9ff-4a70-ab4c-eba60f1b7977 Kerosene floatation extraction protocol]
+: pages 131-6.  Appendix III in  "Biodiversity of soil arthropods in a native grassland in Alberta, Canada: obscure associations and effects of simulated climate change"