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Step 5Free the wings
Foremost, never touch a butterfly wings with your hands. It removes the coloration. Secondly, butterflies are very fragile. If you can avoid handling it by its wings, please do. Always use tweezers and dental picks to handle a butterfly.
That said, pin your butterfly down to the cardboard.
Using your scalpel, cut the wings free from the thorax such that a relatively sizable piece of thorax is left connected to the wing (for the time being).
Once both wings are free, remove as much of the remaining bits of the thorax as possible from the wing while leaving just enough thorax in place to still be able to grasp it with tweezers. An easy way to do this is to place pins around the perimeter of the wing at an angle, which acts to temporarily hold it in place while you cut.
That said, pin your butterfly down to the cardboard.
Using your scalpel, cut the wings free from the thorax such that a relatively sizable piece of thorax is left connected to the wing (for the time being).
Once both wings are free, remove as much of the remaining bits of the thorax as possible from the wing while leaving just enough thorax in place to still be able to grasp it with tweezers. An easy way to do this is to place pins around the perimeter of the wing at an angle, which acts to temporarily hold it in place while you cut.
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