Seeking guidelines for hatched insect galls on plants

[arboretum_amy]

@naturebugs

If I collect a plant and photograph at my home but marked with date and location of original collection do you consider it captive or wild?

Wild. Although you probably would want to state you purposely set the location to the location of collection, just to make that extra clear. Normally people don’t bother and then I have to mark the observation as “location accurate: no.” (I’m assuming here the plant in question really is a wild plant and not a cultivated thing you picked out of your city landscaping.) I guess it also is worth asking what you mean by “collect.” Did you pick a piece of a plant that is now going to die, or have you propagated the plant and now have it alive and growing at home? If it’s growing at home it’s cultivated now.