Collecting insects and other arthropods, pinned, mounted and labeled, for personal study or simple display rather than for a museum or research collection. The hobby flourished as a widespread educational pastime in Victorian Britain, where improving transportation put fieldwork within easy reach and enthusiasts could gather large numbers of specimens in a single outing, and it remains especially popular among young hobbyists in Japan today, alongside its continuing overlap with amateur naturalism and, at its more serious end, real contribution to scientific recording.
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Moth specimens are among the most commonly pinned and preserved subjects in insect collecting.
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Insect collecting refers to the collection of insects and other arthropods for scientific study or as a hobby.
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