Research Techniques

Insects for pollen analyses

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• Processing

Preparing microscope slides from processed samples

Collecting voucher specimens

• Equipment
• How to collect voucher specimens
• Preparation of voucher specimens
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Collecting polleniferous material

• at the time of voucher specimen collection.
• from herbarium specimens.

Preparing voucher specimens for examination with a scanning electron microscope

Light microscopy examination

Scanning electron microscope examination