Yup almost on my fith generation and i only have a couple and I even have them glowing so the can be a bit tricky to find

Re rain and bug appearances: Decided to do a list of what has
appeared when it rains in my games. Note, I have the color mod
change, so collectiables are usually easy to spot. And I am on the 8th or 9th generation for each family. Coins are done for all and I need anywhere from 6 to 1 in the other categories.

Purchased rain storms: 20 storms and NO UNCOMMON OR RARE BUGS
appeared. The most common of the 'commons' are the coins.
Which we all finish fairly rapidly. So,common bugs appeared 14 times; other commons [never photos]20 times. Did get 3 rare and
4 uncommons.....a very sparse return!!!

Random rain storms: 38 storms, 2 new uncommon bugs and 1 rare bug [for my peeps, that is]out of 27 uncommon/rare finds. 30 of
the storms had common bugs appear and all 38 storms had common
others.

Weather rain man: 6 storms, with 2 having no collectiables, 1 rare [have], 1 uncommon [new], along with 3 common
bug & 3 other commons.

Not rain related: Neighbor spys rare collectiable:
Happened 7 times.....3 with nothing and 4 with a rare, of which
I already had.

LDW group.....there has to be a better return to keep one's interest going for the collectiables, don't you think?

That's an awesome data collection you did. Very nice work.

I am also getting very frustrated about this. I am on my 15th generation and have ALL the other collections completed but cannot get the last bug to finish. I need the moth, I am thinking of switching over to night mode as moths come out at night dont' they. you never know.. might work.

I'm on my 13th and still waiting for the dragonfly. I don't know if it makes much of a difference whether is day or night. What I know is that the last rare bug I got it was during the night (a blue butterfly).

Do any of you guys think that according to the kind of bug it'll appear at night or during the day? Like, I need a dragonfly and in RL they usually appear during the day.

I wouldn't think it makes any difference. To code that behaviour would add a layer of complexity without much real need.

I scan, scan, scan. A blue butterfly! Yes! Grab a kid, drop her on it, pick her up and head for the Collections screen... No blue butterfly? Go back to map screen. It was right there on the beach! Wait... Beach? No! Wrong game! Ugh!!

I have been waiting for a blue butterfly in both VV2 and VF Guess I will keep on waiting.

LOL So close but so far knk! I do have the blue butterfly on one of my families.. it's too bad "copy + paste" doesn't really work on those darn collectibles

Thanks, BB for the kudos on rain stats....and hello to your Dixie
from my Shasta.
BLUE BUTTERFLY, RARE.....Rejoice and frustration. Appeared in
one family, picked up and let peep take all the way to the cabinet, to RARE to risk. Hah!! Checked collections and does not appear. Despair. Another family, raining of course, and collected....hurrah, there it is in the collectible, quite lovely. Within less than 30 seconds another blue butterfly appears. Crazy world.
Did finish another photo collection today, at least.

Tada! Another rare bug....and this was so rare I almost didn't see it......the DRAGONFLY! Daytime, scanning and caught just
the tinyest hint of light, maybe palest of blue in the grass. Was sure it was nothing, but put a peep there just because.
Now I am going to look much more carefully in the other families, as of course the wonderful dragonfly appeared in the family that still needs 5 more bugs.....not the family needing only one):
Moonlyght, doubt that the dragonfly will always appear where I found it.....grass left of workroom and at an angle closer to the corner of house......BUT we do know it will come out in the daytime!