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Worm Catching and Other Great Summer Shabbos Activities
Are you allowed to catch worms, snails, and frogs in the backyard on Shabbos?
Trapping an animal that can't run away easily (e.g. a sick deer) is asur mid'rabanan but a domesticated animal (e.g. a cow) isn't subject to the melacha of trapping. What about insects?