Collect and preserve insect specimens following museum-grade standards including legal compliance, collection methods, humane dispatch, dry pinning, wet preservation, labeling, storage, and curation. Covers permit requirements, protected species regulations, sweep nets, beating trays, pitfall traps, light traps, Malaise traps, aspirators, ethyl acetate killing jars, freezing, pin placement by order, wing spreading, ethanol preservation for soft-bodied specimens, specimen labeling with locality and date, storage with pest management, and database entry. Use when building a reference collection for taxonomic study, preserving voucher specimens for ecological research, preparing specimens for identification by specialists, or curating an existing collection.
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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI
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About this skill
Collect and preserve insect specimens following museum-grade standards including legal compliance, collection methods, humane dispatch, dry pinning, wet preservation, labeling, storage, and curation. Covers permit requirements, protected species regulations, sweep nets, beating trays, pitfall traps, light traps, Malaise traps, aspirators, ethyl acetate killing jars, freezing, pin placement by order, wing spreading, ethanol preservation for soft-bodied specimens, specimen labeling with locality and date, storage with pest management, and database entry. Use when building a reference collection for taxonomic study, preserving voucher specimens for ecological research, preparing specimens for identification by specialists, or curating an existing collection.
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Collect and preserve insect specimens following museum-grade standards including legal compliance, collection methods, humane dispatch, dry pinning, wet preservation, labeling, storage, and curation. Covers permit requirements, protected species regulations, sweep nets, beating trays, pitfall traps, light traps, Malaise traps, aspirators, ethyl acetate killing jars, freezing, pin placement by order, wing spreading, ethanol preservation for soft-bodied specimens, specimen labeling with locality and date, storage with pest management, and database entry. Use when building a reference collection for taxonomic study, preserving voucher specimens for ecological research, preparing specimens for identification by specialists, or curating an existing collection.
About this listing
Category
Science & research
Reported license
MIT
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.