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At the moment I'm breeding several species of scarab beetle here in Suriname. In two jars, each containg a single larva (wild catch) of a small scarab species, I've found a dead fly. These flies were apparently dead for a couple of days (I don't check daily, that's not necessary with scarabs) and completely fell apart when I removed them. Today, I found that these flies were actually parasiting the scarab larva. I've now also found a fly pupa which is still closed. Once the fly emerges, I would like to preserve it because of its connection with the scarabs. Since I have no experience with killing and preserving flies (except for with the fly squatter), I would like to ask you how to do this best. From what I could make of the remains of the dead flies, they are probably rather small (5mm body lenght?) with relatively long legs. I'll send them to the Netherlands for further study, but how to kill and how to preserve without damaging them? I have no insect pins here.

Thanks in advance,

Scarabaeoid