Insect Collection

Maybe this is not on your topic, but if you can help! answer the question. You are concerned about children of the Montessori children's group (3-6 years old), their parents and teachers. We need information: if a collection of dried plants and flowers is called "herbarium", does the collection of dried insects have a name??? We will be very grateful to anyone who can help us!
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Entomological collection

children of the Montessori children's group (3-6 years old), their parents and teachers.

Do you have a collection of insects for preschoolers? Wouldn't it be better to show them photos and videos of live insects in nature? And it would be more interesting for them, perhaps, and more hygienic (the collection needs to be etched, otherwise the pests will devour). If desired, I can throw links.
By the way, now on this forum in the topic "Exchange of literature" there is a link to Fabre's book. There are a lot of colorful illustrations and information about insects at a very popular level. In my opinion, a godsend for teachers

Dear entomologists, I have a question about collecting: you often hear that in a particular collection there is a "series" of one insect - that is, several specimens of the same species at once, and this seems to increase the value of the collection. But I collect in a different way: even if I come across several representatives of the same species, I choose the best one from them, and I mount it on a pin and put it in the collection, while I keep the rest on mattresses. My question is: how are series compiled? If, for example, I catch 20 pieces of Soronia punctatissima spangles on a single sap-dripping tree, and pin them all up and put them in a collection, will it be a "series"? And what is the optimal series size for such banals as, for example, the seven-point ladybug, or the May beetle? After all, if you want, you can pin hundreds of them in General, I would like to be a little enlightened about the rules of collecting, can you recommend something from the literature on this topic?

In my opinion, the series consists of several copies from one collection. That is, you can catch a hundred, pin a few for a wider view, and put the rest on mattresses. In general, it is not necessary to put hundreds directly and not necessarily from one collection. For me, it's better for 1-2 copies from the collection, so that there are different places and variations. But it's also a matter of the amount of space in the box, the number of pins, and just the interest in accumulating the quantity.
I think that too much for my collection is bad, and too little is also not very good, since later there may be doubts about finding the right view. And the MOST important thing for your collection is to do with the soul, so that your eye is drawn the most, because you can do a lot, but you won't run into so much, and you can do a little, but you can admire it until you lose your pulse

In principle, I agree, but you need to firmly remember what purpose your collection exists for. If this is just a regional gathering or for training young people (for the purpose of demonstration, that is, estheticism is obvious)- then it is more expedient to choose the "most typical" ones according to your experience. That is, if the beetle is a rhinoceros, then it is larger and with a pronounced horn, etc.
If the collection is scientific, then everything is interesting here. For example, when collecting a large series from one place (30-60 copies), I choose three typical copies, and all aberrant forms (again, according to the accumulated experience and knowledge of a certain group).

In principle, I agree, but you need to firmly remember what purpose your collection exists for. If this is just a regional gathering or for training young people (for the purpose of demonstration, that is, estheticism is obvious)- then it is more expedient to choose the "most typical" ones according to your experience. That is, if the beetle is a rhinoceros, then it is larger and with a pronounced horn, etc.
If the collection is scientific, then everything is interesting here. For example, when collecting a large series from one place (30-60 copies), I choose three typical copies, and all aberrant forms (again, according to the accumulated experience and knowledge of a certain group).

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It's clear. That is, there are no specific rules about this, and everyone determines for themselves the size and composition of the "series", according to their intentions? Well, I like that

If the species is rare, I usually take a "series", i.e. several copies, and if a "banal" type of May beetle, then I take one copy from different geogr. points. Unless, of course, there's some kind of aberration. This is in my collection, and if for exchange, etc., then I take the maximum - it's enough to change and transfer to the ZIN.