How to Wash and Dry Bees with the Bee Drying Vortex!

Bee specimens are often covered in pollen and have matted hairs. Both of these can make them difficult to identify. To get the most beautiful specimens that are easy to identify it is necessary to wash and dry them so they are clean with fluffy hairs. Nash Turley leads a tutorial for a cheap DIY methods for drying bees with minimal equipment, primarily a jar with a screen top and a hair dryer. This is just one way to do it, but it seems to work quite well. This video is a follow up to a previous demonstration of washing and drying bees, while that method can work we found the results inconsistent--sometimes bees still had matted hairs. This update with drying with paper towel seems to help, and of course the Bee Drying Vortex seems to bee pretty great :) Here's the old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oY15luAIvY&t=2s