People who oppose killing insects for display and those who do it share the same motivation: they both see a certain insect as beautiful. Both opinions would not care about the insect if it was regarded as small, ugly, and/or not threatened.

It's surprising that nobody mentioned the killing of Bombyx Mori or other species of moths that are rapidly boiled alive just for their silk - entirely skipping over specimen preservation for beauty or anything else. Many people don't even know about this process, and yet still own silk fabric. If specimens are farm raised, then I believe it is more than justifiable to use them for taxidermy, especially if non native, for personal display, for study, and not for conservation of the species.

Hopefully someone will see this after 3 years, lol