I have found collectibles in all categories, except for the bugs/butterflies category. Well, I have found the butterfly in all three of my families, but never anything else. I see all the other ones quite frequently, but never any bugs, flies, or anything like that. What is going on? Is anyone else having this problem?

Yep. I actually sold off my collections earlier today - for a tidy sum, I might add - but am having a hard time rebuilding my insect collection. And if the rain is supposed to bring out the bugs ... well, it's raining a LOT, but still no bugs to collect. :-(

I'm finding bugs the least as well

I didn't know you could sell your whole collection! Neat

well for me its pretty hard for me to find one which is the picture one

I am also unable to find bugs and the pictures. The coins have been coming up easily.

How did you sell the collection?

The option to sell the collection is an event, which happens randomly. It's an event that you can say yes or no to, so don't worry that your hard earned collectibles might go poof without your say so

Thanks! I didn't think they'd go, I was just wondering if I missed an option somewhere. Thought maybe I could sell the coin collection, make some money, and start over! Since the coins appear so often... might have been an idea!

Unfortunately, I think it's the whole collection (twigs/coins/bugs/pictures). Having not gotten the event myself, I'm not sure, but I don't think you can only sell one part of the collection.

Has anyone found that you can train your family members to automatically find collectibles? I praise my people 2x each time I get them to grab one.

Okay, I have been playing this game since the day it came out. I am still missing 3 rare Nuts and Twigs, 3 rare bugs, and 1 uncommon bug. Where are they? Is anyone else having this problem.

I've been playing five games at the same time. In the family which is closest to the trophy, I'm missing 4 rare items. But I'm missing different collectibles in each family. The only one I didn't see at all is the rare moth. I found two dragonflies, two purple bugs, a blue butterfly, but no moth in any of the families.

HPVV, I think it's just luck. There are some items which shows up over and over again for the same family, but is missing for another family with me. I think two of the bugs (dragonfly and grasshopper) and a twig (green clover) is somehow hard to see, but all others are easy to spot. Maybe you can download the collectibles mod; I heard it is helpful to spot them.

How do you sell off a collection? I can't figure it out.

Thanks for a response.

Xay explained it in her post a little earlier in this thread.

Can it prabably has to do with the clock- or daytime when uncommon or rale collectibles appear?

Nope. The only things that affect the appearance of collectibles are that

On my game (virtual families for the ipodtouch/iphone), I am not getting *anything* but nuts and twigs. I almost have all the nuts and twigs except for the maple leaf.

i hardley ever get bugs. they seem to be soo rare even the common ones are. Yesterday i was lucky and found a rare bug.But it was like it was ultra rare because you can hardley ever find bugs.

when you dowload this thing can not remember what it is called the collectables glow. But so do the wrappers etc wich i find anoying.

In MissKathy's mod a glow seems to only be applied to the collectibles and weeds, but not to the other items.

It was a special request of knksmiles husband to have glowing weeds added to Lyssaria's glowing collectibles mod (where socks, wrappers & weeds didn't glow). If you don't want glowing weeds then check out Lyssaria's original mod here. You can also search the Mod Section for different collectible mods. There are quite a few!