A rectangle of pink construction foam sits on a grey desktop, holding about 75–80 insect points, ready to be used. There is also a small glass petri dish and lid sitting on a folded brown paper towel next to the foam block. Visible in the dish are 25–30 small male mutillid wasps in alcohol, ready to be point-mounted. There is also a fine-tipped pair of forceps and a 3D-printed dark gray pinning block in view. Finally, the end of a column of determination labels is poking in from the upper righthand corner of the frame.

Not to put too fine a point on it...

...insects are awesome.

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#HeMakesAGoodPoint
(several, actually)