I shoot a fair few insect and bug images and take care to keyword correctly with the Latin names. But when I checked the DT site recently, I found these had gone from keywords, though they remained in title and/or description.
Has anybody else noticed this?
Is it now normal?
Was it always normal and I just didn't notice?
Does it matter (given that sales are, in any case, pretty rare occurrences these days)?

I believe this is normal for DT.

I shoot lots of birds and other critters, including insects, and always include Latin names, which DT routinely removes from the keywords. Not clear to me why, since people who want a photo of a specific species would likely search for the Latin name. My other stock sites always leave the technical keywords in.

However, sales are few and far between at DT, so I don't worry about it.

I just spot - checked a few images and they still had the Latin names in the keywords (separated out as single words as DT does). They were submitted a while ago, so maybe this is a new policy. I just submitted one, so I'll see what they do with it (if they accept it).

Please do come back and let us know. Thanks!

It looks like they did not remove them from my most recent upload.

   Looks like I will have to put them all back in then.....
Even if sales are feeble, this would make then even feebler!
Rework.....