Collecting is a standard and necessary practice for a wide variety of applications (also true for collecting herbarium specimens of plants) in the interest of science- it’s not just people collecting butterflies to put on their wall because they’re pretty. Unnecessary collection of vulnerable species or groups should be discouraged in general (not just on iNaturalist), but conventional sampling by collection is in no way frowned upon by iNaturalist. Many insects can’t be identified well by photographs taken in the field anyways.
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