Pengumpulan serangga

Pengumpulan serangga merujuk kepada koleksi serangga dan antropoda lainnya untuk kajian ilmiah atau sebagai kegemaran. Karena kebanyakan serangga kecil dan mayoritas tak dapat diidentifikasi tanpa pengujian karakter morfologi, para entomologis sering kali membuat dan menyimpan koleksi serangga. Koleksi paling besar dikonservasi di museum sejarah alam atau universitas dimana mereka disimpan dan dipelajari oleh para pakar. Beberapa kursus kampus mewajibkan para murid untuk membuat koleksi kecil. Terdapat juga etnomologis dan kolektor amatir yang menyimpan koleksi-koleksi.

Pada masa lalu, pengumpulan serangga telah merebak dan pada zaman Viktoria, menjadi kegemaran edukasional yang sangat populer. Pengumpulan serangga membekas dalam sejarah kebudayaan, kesusastraan dan lagu-lagu Eropa (seperti La chasse aux papillons (The Hunt for Butterflies) karya Georges Brassens). Praktik tersebut masih merebak di beberapa negara, dan terutama umum di kalangan pemuda Jepang.

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan

Picture Guide series For college students. Out of date but very useful for beginners.

Harry Edwin Jaques, 1941 How to know the insects; an illustrated key to the more common families of insects, with suggestions for collecting, mounting and studying them. His Pictured-key nature series Mt. Pleasant, Ia.,The author Full text online here Excellent college level guide
Hongfu, Zhu, 1949 How to know the immature insects; an illustrated key for identifying the orders and families of many of the immature insects with suggestions for collecting, rearing and studying them, by H. F. Chu. Pictured key nature series Dubuque, Iowa,W. C. Brown Co.Full text online here

Pranala luar

Capture methods and techniques Intermediate level
Collecting and Preserving Insects and Mites: Tools and Techniques; PDF Comprehensive, detailed download. Advanced level.
How to make an insect collection; containing suggestions and hints designed to aid the beginning and less advanced collector (Wards Natural Science Establishment 1945)
How to collect and preserve insects (H. H. Ross) Full text of 1962 printing
Expedition Insect Manual PDF Diarsipkan 2016-03-04 di Wayback Machine.
Chris Raper Insect Collecting Easy to read Excellent illustrations]
Insect Collection Manual Australian Museum introductory guide.Beginner level
Curation Of Insect Specimens N P S Beginner level
Museum handbook
Garthe's Insect Gradebook Butterfly mounting.
Coke Smith Insect Collection
A.Tereshkin Devices for Ichneumonidae collecting.Advanced
Why We Kill Bugs- The Case for Collecting Insects Rationale for insect collecting