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a museum-grade collection of at least 300 representative British insects
Do you mean as a photographic collection or corpses on pins?
Oliver Schick-
I am taking photos as well but no the collection is a physical one with pinned, carded or pointed samples. This is because its not possible to ID the vast majority of insects (we've over 24,000 species in a nature-depleted UK) without microscopes and in many cases dissection of their genitalia (or using parts of them for various DNA analysis).
Having said that, the NHM are working through their collections of millions of invertebrates to make as many as possible available as photographic images on-line, see https://www.flickr.com/people/nhm_beetle_id/
JoePablo
In other news, I started a Masters course in Entomology this autumn. I'm really enjoying it, meeting some fantastic like-minded people, and learning so much. Part of the course requires us to produce a museum-grade collection of at least 300 representative British insects. So come this spring expect a plenty of ento photos from me.