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Scientific value of insects collections

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Tyomochkin, 20.01.2007 22:48

If there is no name, for example, the collection has no scientific value. I found a great collection of butterflies, everything is fine, but impaled on ordinary needles (not entomological). So will the collection have scientific value?

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21.01.2007 0:28, Bad Den

A collection has scientific value if there are labels with data about the place of collection. And names are the tenth thing.

21.01.2007 17:40, Tyomochkin

By "name" I meant a label with the name and data. In general, in this case, it is not clear why entomological needles! Regular needles are more convenient, and common everywhere, and cheaper! But I have nothing against entomology.

21.01.2007 17:52, RippeR

Well, don't! The usual ones are worse than that-thicker, shorter, too large heads or ears, quickly rust and deteriorate. In general, they lose in all the main characteristics of entomological pins. Yes, and aesthetics are added with entomological ones.The label with the name of the species is not so important - you can determine it in a hundred years, if the material is preserved. But the date, the captor, the place (I still write on what I caught - for example: the forest or on the light or on the leg or under a stone or in manure, well, in general, and so on smile.gif) you must write it, because the value of the instance and its entire history and characteristics depend on it.. "Without a piece of paper you are a bug, but with a piece of paper you are a person" Here is the same principle, only a bug, without a passport - a piece of organic smile.gifmatter
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