We Will Start Collecting Live Specimens for Our Bug Collecting - Our Family Hobby Insect Collecting

We've been pinning bugs now for two years, and it's a hobby the whole house has grown to love. In this years collecting season 2014 we are going to make a major change in our collection process. So far, our 200 insects have all been collected already dead or injured. Injured bugs would then go into a kill jar or the freezer. I have not collected any live insects and intentionally killed them for our collection. 

We Will Start Collecting Live Specimens for Our Bug Collecting - Our Family Hobby Insect Collecting

All winter - because the Polar Vortex this year gave Chicago and exceptionally long 6 month season - I've been reading about bug collecting. I've found great blogs by other collectors, real entomologists, and research students and lab techs. The information is consuming!! I can't get enough.