Editing Butterfly (section)

===Collecting, recording, and rearing===

{{see also|Insect collecting}}

[[File:A butterfly collection.jpg|thumb|upright|A collection of butterflies and moths in the [[Manitoba Museum]], {{circa}} 2010]]

"Collecting" means preserving dead specimens, not keeping butterflies as pets.<ref name="WSJ-collecting" /><ref name="TAMU-BugHunter"/> Collecting butterflies was once a popular hobby; it has now largely been replaced by photography, recording, and rearing butterflies for release into the wild.<ref name=BugsBritannica/> The zoological illustrator [[Frederick William Frohawk]] succeeded in rearing all the butterfly species found in Britain, at a rate of four per year, to enable him to draw every stage of each species. He published the results in the folio sized handbook ''The Natural History of British Butterflies'' in 1924.<ref name=BugsBritannica/> Butterflies and [[moth]]s can be reared for recreation or for release.<ref name="AES-raising"/>