How does the Leave No Trace principle apply to insect study?

Follow it during observation, collection, and identification.

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  1. Follow it during observation, collection, and identification ✔
  2. Ignore it when collecting specimens
  3. Apply it only to plants, not insects

Why: Scouts explain how they followed Leave No Trace during field observation, collection, and identification.

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Leave no trace, leave the bugs in place.
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Answer: Follow it during observation, collection, and identification. Scouts explain how they followed Leave No Trace during field observation, collection, and identification.

  1. Scouting America: Insect Study www.scouting.org/merit-badges/insect-study
    Explain how you have followed the Leave No Trace Seven Principles and the Outdoor Code during field observation, specimen collection, and identification.
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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