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How to Preserve Bugs and Dead Things
When she was 11, Kathleen began raising beetles for a science fair project. She had to keep track of what they were doing and watch very carefully because one of the specimens that she put in there was a bird. The bugs will completely consume the tiny bones on a small specimen like that. And we also did not kill anything for her to do this. A bird flew into our living room window as happenstance; so she collected that and put it in there first. Even today, the bird skeleton lies in its box in her mother's sewing room.
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