Talk:Insect collecting

Article name
The usual practice for our articles about activities is to put them under the "-ing" form, as in stamp collecting or mining, and redirect objects and doers to that topic, at least until it gets very large and needs to be split. Stan 23:10, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Keeping insects as pets
What about collecting insects for the purposes of keeping them as pets and/or battling them with other peoples' insects, and enjoying watching them metamorphose and grow older?


 * Maybe something like insects as pets, insect rearing would be better for that? See also insect fighting (and its cousin, spider fighting). Richard001 (talk) 06:57, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * To catch them is your real test. 86.1.220.125 (talk) 01:31, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

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Merge from Entomological equipment for mounting and storage
I just came across Entomological equipment for mounting and storage. It's generally unreferenced, but I do like the layout, especially the non-lead content. Seems like it would fit well in place of the current text at this article in the section that links there right now. I personally wouldn't have time to do this for awhile, so I thought I'd put the merger proposal up for now at least. Either way, the equipment article largely seems unneeded as a separate article. KoA (talk) 21:52, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

✅ Joyous! | Talk 23:36, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

Questions
- Why was there a mentioning about insects having to die after being collected? I think it should be talked more about. Bendoncaramel (talk) 21:47, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Repeated photo
The penultimate photo (File:StagedSyrphidae.jpg) is a repetition of the seventh photo, with different & shorter caption. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 11:38, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Fixed. KoA (talk) 14:31, 19 July 2023 (UTC)