(consistent with the above)

• 1.1 To create a reference collection for study and appreciation.
• 1.2 To document regional diversity, frequency, and variability of species, and as voucher material for published records.
• 1.3 To document faunal representation in environments undergoing or threatened with alteration by humans or natural forces.
• 1.4 To participate in development of regional checklists and institutional reference collections.
• 1.5 To compliment a planned research endeavour.
• 1.6 To aid in dissemination of educational information.
• 1.7 To augment understanding of taxonomic and ecological relationships for medical, biological and economic purposes.

• 2.1 Collecting adults or immature stages should be limited to sampling, not depleting, the population concerned. Numbers collected should be consistent with the purposes outlined in sections 1.1 through 1.7.
• 2.2 Where the extent and/or the fragility of the population is unknown, caution and restraint should be exercised.
• 2.3 Where authorities have justfully imposed collecting restrictions or a requirement for permits, these are to be strictly complied with.

• 3.1 All data should be recorded, and the data should be made available to appropriate interested parties. Specimens without adequate data labels are of no scientific value and thereof the amassing of such poorly labelled collections is not condoned by the Society.

• 4.1 Rearing to elucidate life histories and to obtain series of immature stages and adults is to be encouraged, provided that collection of the rearing stock is in keeping with these guidelines and adequate records are kept.
• 4.2 Reared material in excess of need should be released only in the region where it originated, and in suitable habitat.

• 5.1 Protection of the supporting habitat must be recognized as the sine qua non of protection of a species.
• 5.2 Collecting should be performed in a manner such as to minimise trampling or other damage to the habitat or to specific food plants.
• 5.3 Property rights and sensibilities of others must be respected.
• 5.4 Collectors must comply with regulations relating to publicly controlled areas, to individuals species, and to habitats.

• 1.1 All material should be preserved with all known data attached.
• 1.2 All material should be protected from physical damage and deterioration, e.g. light, moulds, and museum pests.
• 1.3 Collections should be made available for examination by qualified researchers and bona fede avocational entomologists.
• 1.4 Collections or specimens, and their associated written and photographic records, should be willed or offered to the care of an appropriate scientific institution, if the collector lacks space or interest, or in anticipation of death.
• 1.5 Type specimens, especially holotype or allotype, should be deposited in appropriate scientific institutions.

• 7.1 Collecting should include permanently recorded field notes regarding habitat, conditions, and other pertinent information.
• 7.2 Recording of observations of behaviour and of biological interactions should receive as high a priority as collecting.
• 7.3 Photographic records, with full data, are to be encouraged.
• 7.4 Education of the public regarding collecting and conservation, as reciprocally beneficial activities, should be undertaken whenever possible.
• 7.5 All known data should be recorded with the specimens, e.g. date, location, collector, habitat, larval host plant data, and parentage of immatures, when known.

• 8.1 Collection of specimens for exchange or sale should be performed in accordance with these guidelines.
• 8.2 Rearing of specimens for exchange or sale should be from stock obtained in a manner consistent with these guidelines, and so documented.
• 8.3 Mass collecting of Entomological material for commercial purposes and collection of specimens for creation of saleable artefacts are not included among the purposes of the Society. Moreover, the Society adopts a stand against such activities.

• 9.1 Collectors should comply with local and international laws and regulations that govern collecting and possession, commerce and exchange, import and export, and protection of species. Collectors should comply with additional local and international laws and regulations governing live material.