dantheman
Bah humbug
At the other end of the scale; I can't really see how this could happen, but, what would the ethics be of ticking an Egg?
It's alive, and assume you are confident of the species, what does the panel think?
(By the way, do mothers/butterfliers count Caterpillars?, if not why not?)
True Lepidopterists do perhaps? - there's whole books on larvae finding/collecting and many invert species/leafminers etc are most easily id'ed on the larval foodplant ...
Eggs - hmmm. I presume that just ticking the egg would be a) extreme laziness (ie can't wait around for the adult) b) an abandoned egg is the same as a dead egg ie no longer viable, whether or not it is still actually 'alive' at the time...
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