Best way to remove orthopteran/orthopteroid genitalia?

unless you’re collecting them, i wonder if it’s necessary to do dissection to see the aedeagus? just in my own experience recording videos of insects, the males seem to readily extend their aedeagi when motivated to do so.

if you must dissect, here’s some previous discussion on the topic: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/genitalia-of-grasshopper/45751

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