Subjects — Elytrova Supply Co.

Hand examining leaves with a magnifier in grass — photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels

Beginner Kits

Starting out doesn't mean starting small. Our entry kits pair a soft-jaw aspirator, a folding net and a waterproof log so a first survey ends with notes worth keeping.

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Beetles

Longhorns, divers, ground-runners — beetles are a quarter of everything alive. Rearing trays, relaxing jars and a key to 340 British species live in this shelf.

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Painted lady butterfly resting on foliage — photo by Dmytro Koplyk on Pexels

Butterflies & Moths

Rearing sleeves, glassine envelopes and a wing-mounting board that finally sits flat. Everything here is sized for scales that bruise if you look at them twice.

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Field Optics

Close-focus binoculars that hold at 1.4 m, 10x hand lenses on a lanyard, and stereo heads for the kitchen-table lab. Ground glass, not moulded acrylic.

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Green flower mantis on a log — photo by Jeffry Surianto on Pexels

Vivariums

Mesh cubes for mantids, ventilated acrylic for stick insects, and substrate blends mixed in Cornwall. Sized so a windowsill colony still gets airflow.

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Hoverfly perched on a leaf in close-up — photo by Skyler Ewing on Pexels

Macro Photography

Diffusers that soften a bare flash to something a hoverfly will sit through, plus focus rails, tethers and the 4:1 tube set our workshop grinds in-house.

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Moth on a green stem against a dark background — photo by Egor Kamelev on Pexels

Night Surveys

Actinic tubes, 12 V packs that last past 3 a.m., and a folding sheet trap that packs into a rucksack. Includes the shade of red head-torch that keeps night vision.

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Bumblebee on a pink cosmos flower — photo by Horst Joachims on Pexels

Pollinators

Solitary-bee tubes cut to five bore sizes, observation frames with a slide-out back, and seed mixes chosen for a garden that flowers from March to October.

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Reeds at the edge of a still pond — photo by Francesco Ungaro on Pexels

Freshwater Larvae

Pond nets on a three-piece pole, white sorting trays that show a caddis case at a glance, and the riffle key our surveyors actually carry to the stream.

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Curation

Unit trays in eleven footprints, stainless pins in sizes 000 to 7, and drawer inserts that keep a growing collection from becoming a drawer of loose labels.

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Two children examining plants with a magnifying glass — photo by KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA on Pexels

Young Naturalists

Bug pots with a built-in 3x lens, a garden-safari card deck and gloves small enough to matter. Tested by a class of eight-year-olds who broke almost none of it.

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Reference Shelf

Regional keys, plate-heavy monographs and the thread-bound survey notebook that opens flat in wet grass. Reprints arrive in batches of about 400.

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