I know the pros use some kind of beatle to do it. Don't have any here. So how can a guy do it so it comes out n9ice and white with no greese spots. Thanks

I had all of this specialized training and never used it cause I worked in law enforcement instead of wildlife mgt.Dermestid Beetles are used but the skull needs to be in a freezer to kill off any other bugs so the colony isn't infected. Then the skull has to be kept in a screened enclosure to keep out flies,it will stink.Get as much of the flesh and brains out of the skull as possible before using a dermestid colony.In our wildlife mgt classes we cleaned small skulls that were soaked in a bleach/water mixture to get rid of the grease and flesh turned them white but when we opened the gallon jugs man did it stink.

The beetles don't turn a skull white. It has to be whitened with chemicals. My daught has a huge colony of beetles.
Here's her latest job.

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NO BUGS...NO PROBLEM

I fleshed and cleaned this one out the best I could. Then I burried it in the wifes garden with a lot of fireplace ashes on top of it then topsoil. I put a big rock over where it was burried so I could find it later. 10 months later I dug it up, washed it off and whitened it with peroxide and water. I find peroxide whitens just as well as bleach but dosent crack the bone and decay it at all. This was a friends bear skull. I told him to use more peroxide on the dark spots. He took it back to CA and told me that within a week of drying out completly the dark spots disapeared.

European skull mounts

In my shop I use 35% peroxide. First take off most of the meat and brains, cover the skull not the horns with the peroxide, use rags around the base of the horns so the peroxide can leech up to the underside of the burr. After a week or two (depends on how well you cleaned it) rinse it in dawn dish detergent and water till it comes out clean, place it in the sun to dry. If it is the way you want it, then cover it with modge-podge high gloss and it will be sealed and stay clean forever. If you used bleach the modge-podge will seal the skull and stop the flaking that can go on forever. You can put the skull back into the peroxide as many times as you like, but if you notice the skull is falling apart take it out, you have left it in too long. You will have to glue the teeth into the skull. Never use bleach because it will continue to breakdown the bone forever.



Rich

I have boiled many bear, goat and deer shulls and it get easier each time. After they have been picked and cleaned then I do the "whitening creme" and peroxide thing. They come out beautiful