I've lived in the northwest all of my life. I try to learn as much as I can about local plant and animal life, so I can relay the knowledge to kids. I volunteer to give nature walks and bug talks to local schools and libraries. I'm in college, taking as many science classes as possible, but my forte is biology.
I plan on starting a bug zoo as soon as possible.

I give bug presentations, so I try to have available for viewing any "bug" that has wound its way into common knowledge. The largest, most venomous, or any "record holding" bugs make up the core of my collection, with the rest representing key steps in invertebrate evolution. As such, I try to have as complete a collection that I can, with every order of arachnid, insect, or other arthropod represented to the best of my financial ability. For some reason, I can't keep scorpions alive. I've had 8, and all but 1 has died within a month.

I go bug collecting nearly every day, and I have 2 or 3 empty vials with me at all times in case I run across a rare spider or insect. I am currently working on updating spider distribution maps in my area by sending preserved spiders to the University of Washington.

Biology, Botany, Paleontology, Hiking, Badminton, History, science, science, and science!

Changes too often to write down a list. At any one time, I'll probably end up having at least 3 representatives of every major order. I also have 11 species of frog at the time I'm writing this.

Golden Orb weaver
Giant waterscorpion
Scutigera house centipede
Apheloria tigana
Sydney funnelweb spider
Israeli deathstalker scorpion

any solifugid

Any cool beetles, mantids, or phasmids.

Staetoda grossa (false black widow)
Tegenaria gigantea (giant house spider)
Antrodiaetus pacificus (folding door spider)
Callobius severus (Northwest house spider)
Latrodectus mectans
Harpaphe haydeniana (clown millipede)
Omus dejeani ground beetles
Ensatina eschscholtzii salamanders
Taricha granulosa newts - (most poisonous animal on Earth in terms of how many people it can kill)

Mounted butterflies
Plastic encasing services

I can encase anything you've got in resin, or stick it in a gel candle, or just pin and mount it. Send me your dead bugs, I'll find something cool to do with them.
I also breed and make media for drosophilia and houseflies.

http://www.youtube.com/user/arstood

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