Chuck wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:52 pm
If you don't take the time to respect the landowners,

Landowners are fine (usually). But the worst are the officials They are often difficult (even impossible) to deal with.

I know export from Vietnam isn't banned. I purchase insects from private dealers all the time over there and they always show up How it is in Vietnam I can't publish here :) The only positive thing about Vietnam (as far as insect exports are concerned) is that the law enforcement associated with it...

, and can help step you through AUS export regulations. I'm afraid no one "outside" can help the Australians. Their "legal jungle" and export obstruction is so terrible that they should sort it out once and for all. By the way - every Ornithoptera specimen must have a CITES perm...

livingplanet3 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:22 pm The following probably isn't applicable to the described plan, but it's an interesting video on catching Morpho hecuba with a lure -

Nice video. Saint Elie, right?

is it safe to just send the speciems I collect back to the U.S in the mail? Instead of going through the hassle of bringing them in luggage and dealing with customs Officially, the export of insects from Vietnam is banned. -edited by admin- "Be careful with what you write on a public forum&quo...

I will give you an example from my country : - a stupid law has been voted with a ban to collect more than 100 insects per year per person in French Guiana - the French Lepidopterist Association and other important association made some meetings and wrote to FG authorities - this law has been chang...

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Oh, yeah. But I was only referring to disinfecting the collections. Just some alternative to paradichlorobenzene.

On another note - how are specimens usually organised? By country or family? Or just a random mix of things? Again, it's hard to say. Both ways have their importance and their supporters! :) Most people probably logically prefer sorting by family. But especially when it comes to sales, sorting by c...

Vabrou, can you please list the specific chemicals used by some museum workers? Paradichlorobenzene is reliable, but it's a carcinogen. That's why it's mostly not used anymore.

An exposed prepared sample is always better. But it depends on the seller's capabilities. Most just don't have the opportunity (space) to have prepared samples of everything. Some only sell packaged material (a disadvantage, but a necessity).

Very briefly to an interesting discussion. Absolutely essential observations (as I feel it myself). In our small country in the middle of Europe, we also have a "national database" of organisms (mainly plants and animals). There is a problem with the reliability of many data, as they are o...

There may be a problem with legislation in some countries. I think state museums sometimes cannot officially donate material. But as far as I know, there are various grants from which museums pay preparators.

As others have written, Thailand is OK. Also probably still Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia. And most of Africa too (sometimes maybe with bribes)

Don't forget that there is a limit of 1000 insects in French Guiana! This can be caught in about 3 days! It's better with permission. I recommend contacting a local university or museum (in your country) for cooperation and confirmation for a permit to export more insects!

To kevinkk - you wrote: "Besides that, the market place is mostly for the EU, everything is out of the USA" (to explain my reaction). To all - I'm not attacking anyone. I wouldn't want to get into politics here. I have no illusions about any nation (humanity as a whole is still very primit...

Language. Little stars don't fly for me there buddy. Besides that, the market place is mostly for the EU, everything is out of the USA, I look at specimens there, but I'm not getting a permit for anything, ever. Period. It's not worth it to me. I let other people take those risks and deal with the ...

Start using https://marketplace.insectnet.com/

Luehdorf - as far as moths, can you post a photo of the canvas and lighting you are catching at night? It is also very important to catch in the new moon. But you probably know that. A friend had something similar - maybe even exactly one of the variants on bioform.de. See first photo. I had an ord...