Post-Collection Timeline
Definition
The recorded developmental and handling history after the original recovery. Record transport, storage, preservation, refrigeration and examination events with their times. These records help distinguish collection-time evidence from later changes.
- Context
- Specimen history
For example, recording recovery, transport, cooling and preservation times helps separate earlier development from changes after the evidence entered custody.
Refrigeration does not instantly stop development everywhere in a sample. A departure from a procedure needs an impact assessment rather than an automatic assumption of harmlessness or invalidity.
Related terms
- Culture Survival Bias
- A difference between the collected material and organisms represented among survivors. Only some collected insects may survive rearing and emerge as adults....
- Development Table
- Reference developmental observations with specified taxon, conditions and endpoints. A table may describe stage duration, size or temperature-time accumulation. Check the original...
- Eclosion
- Emergence from a preceding developmental enclosure; the event and life stage must be specified. In rearing records it often concerns an adult...
- Emergence Record
- Documented observations of adults leaving their puparia or pupal coverings. Record inspections, observed development and environmental conditions. If a covering is intact...
- Isomorphen Diagram
- A diagram relating defined developmental events or stages to time and temperature within a specified reference dataset. The reference origin, axes and...
- Minimum Base Temperature
- A lower threshold of a specified development model, not an absolute universal limit of insect activity or survival. A lower threshold is...
- Observation Interval
- The period between inspections, within which an unobserved event may have occurred. Record inspections, observed development and environmental conditions. If a covering...
- Pupariation
- Formation of the puparium from the final larval cuticle in relevant flies. The pupa develops within that enclosure; the puparium and pupa...
- Rearing
- Maintaining immature material under recorded conditions to permit further development. Preserve collection-time information separately. Adult emergence is not mandatory for every species...
- Rearing Medium
- A substrate selected and documented for the taxon and purpose of rearing. Diet and crowding can affect development and survival. No single...