Ever caught any kind of insect?

When I was little I caught a lot of butterflies and dragonflies. I caught a lightning bug once and I thought I was the coolest kid ever
 
I'd collect them as a kid and keep them in a jar until they died like 2 days later. I think this is something that most kids growing up!
 
I had to once for school, I forgot what I caught, but I remember catching like two or three different kinds of bugs, one of them being a grasshopper. I never want to do it again.
 
when i was a small child me and my friends would go to a field and try catch a dragonfly. it was very fun but also very difficult! we also caught some beetles and made them fight each other... yeah.
 
Butterflies and rollypollies. I caught a praying mantis like a month ago and put it on my friend to freak her out.
 
The only insects I've caught with intent to keep caged up are...dead ones. Or maybe not quite dead ones, in the case of the cicada shell that I still have closed tight inside an empty film canister. Though I do wonder where the dead moth I found (in a pool) that I kept in a baby food jar ever went off to.

Anyway, in regards to live ones, I've only caught them to see if I can, they get released right away. I've done this to butterflies, lovebugs, oh I can't even remember what else...I've picked up pillbugs before just because I can. I think it was mostly butterflies I chased after though. And this wasn't with intent to catch, but I did manage to coax a dragonfly to sit on my finger for a few moments one time. I was utterly amazed at that.

If there were fireflies where I used to live, I probably would have tried catching those too, but alas, there were none. I would do so now, I'm always tempted to whenever I see them around, but it would look just a little bit weird ah ha.
 
All kinds of beetles, grasshoppers, fireflies, ladybugs, dragonflies, those insects with big scissor-like jaws, mantis, butterflies, moths and other arthropods like spiders, centipedes, millipedes, the occasional scorpion and crabs when at the beach.
 
when i was growing up, my friend's family would sometimes be so lazy about cutting their backyard weeds in the spring/summer that it'd grow wild. the place became like a utopia of long grass and plants, with at least 10 grasshoppers that jumped with every step you took in there. needless to say we would go grasshopper hunting. it was always our goal to see who could catch the "prettiest" grasshopper out of us 6 kids. one time i caught this huge red grasshopper that always eluded our capture previously, and when i caught it all of us were so ecstatic. i was deemed the one with the prettiest grasshopper, and no one was able to beat me after. :')

we kept all of our subjects in this big old fishtank and set them free later once we were done playing.

but yeh i spent my whole childhood capturing bugs of all kinds, including but not limited to: beetles, butterflies, moths, ladybugs, ants, spiders, caterpillars, etc. it was great fun. B)
 
I wasn't allowed to capture anything "because it's cruel". This is just as well since by now, if I did, I'd rather not have. The only time I handle insects is to move them somewhere safer, usually from whatever I'm doing. I'm not some 'friend to nature' nut, but I do like to extend common human decency beyond humans.
 
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