Viva la muerte! Topics include study of bugs, butterflies and creepy crawlies and methods of preservation from beetles to bison. You will keep and observe insects in an insectarium, learn hands-on how to mount your own bugs and definitely increase your nature collection drawer. Field trips include an exotic pet shop, a taxidermy shop and a nature preserve.

Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit, Albert Farnham
Taxidermy Guide, Russell Tinsley
Fabre’s Book of Insects, Jean Henri Fabre
Taxidermy, Alexis Turner
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White
In the Steps of the Great American Zoologist, John Ripley Forbes
Bugs Up Close, John Hallmén
Nature Drawing and Journaling, John Muir Laws
Aliens Among Us, Daniel Kariko
Microsculpture: Portraits of Insects, Levon Biss
Flying Creatures of the Fifth Day, Jeannie Fulbright
Peterson Field Guide to Mammals, Fiona Reid
Audubon Field Guide to the Southwestern States
Nature Stories, Enid Blyton
One Small Square: Backyard, Donald Silver
Favorite Poems Old and New, Little Things that Creep, Helen Ferris

Photo Ark Insects, Joel Sartore
Innumerable Insects, Michael Engel
Insectpedia, Eric Eaton

colored pencil butterfly wing
marker beetle
taxidermy process drawing
watercolor bird
microscope sketch
insectarium observations
nature in the wild infographic

butterfly mounting
beetle cloche mounting
frog pin mounting
turtle wet specimen
insectarium

Stuffed (2019)
Them! (1954)

Predators Reptile Center
Curious Nature
Bass Pro Shop
Riparian Preserve

Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy, Melissa Milgrom