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by kevinkk
Mon Dec 19, 2022 5:40 am
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Good news everyone!
Replies: 21
Views: 4919

Re: Good news everyone!

I am an American, and buy mostly from the USA, I deal with realistic sellers from overseas, I could really care less about the permit system. I accept risk when I choose to and that's worked for nearly the last 10 years. I don't buy deadstock anyway, I have 1 case of Ornithoptera, are there specimen...
by kevinkk
Sat Dec 17, 2022 10:02 pm
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Really want to see Calodema regalis again
Replies: 11
Views: 3027

Re: Really want to see Calodema regalis again

Those are some beautiful beetles- as if they all aren't. just some are better than others...:) I read once in an insect book that during a piano concerto a beetle emerged out of the wood the piano was made of. I don't recall the book, but there was some conjecture about how something like that could...
by kevinkk
Sat Dec 17, 2022 4:03 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Good news everyone!
Replies: 21
Views: 4919

Re: Good news everyone!

F*u*c*k ebay and start using https://marketplace.insectnet.com/ 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 ...
by kevinkk
Fri Dec 16, 2022 11:31 pm
Forum: Insect Art
Topic: Beetles for investing
Replies: 3
Views: 1997

Re: Beetles for investing

My brother gave it to me, he collects coins and silver bullion. A lot of different subject matter gets put onto a coin, he probably found it at one of the coin shops he goes to. I'm a complete amateur with coins, although I can spot a silver coin in change, I've picked up a few dimes going through m...
by kevinkk
Fri Dec 16, 2022 4:03 pm
Forum: Insect Art
Topic: Beetles for investing
Replies: 3
Views: 1997

Beetles for investing

My uncrushable beetle. An unexpected gift from last holiday season.
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by kevinkk
Fri Dec 16, 2022 12:15 am
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: The Collapse of Insects
Replies: 15
Views: 1407

Re: The Collapse of Insects

Unless you watch documentaries, read or just pay attention, most people don't notice these things, clearly, pesticides go where they're not wanted, and kill indiscriminately. Habitat loss is the effect of population. We may see pictures of hungry people in advertising, but there is a lot of food was...
by kevinkk
Thu Dec 15, 2022 4:31 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Plastic Model Butterfly Kit
Replies: 5
Views: 671

Re: Plastic Model Butterfly Kit

58 Chevy, if that's your kit it's in great shape. I see them on eBay now and then, Aurora is one of the things I collect, with enough money, you
can still buy sealed kits of just about anything. I like the Prehistoric scenes and the monster glow kits.
by kevinkk
Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:57 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Space Junk & Robots
Replies: 1
Views: 1588

Re: Space Junk & Robots

At least, for better of worse, space is pretty big. It is incredible when you see a visual depiction of all the (trackable) objects orbiting the Earth. I think they can only track baseball or larger. So far, things have been amazingly lucky for ground based humanoids. I call things like that "d...
by kevinkk
Wed Dec 14, 2022 3:42 am
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Good news everyone!
Replies: 21
Views: 4919

Re: Good news everyone!

Yes, the government may be what it is, but we have things pretty good here for the most part. Self-employment tax, profit and loss, itemizing, it may be all on a form, but it was always less than straight forward. Small transactions add up, and that's what they're going after now, 87k new IRS agents...
by kevinkk
Tue Dec 13, 2022 11:14 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: How to perfectly relax butterflies : the vodka method
Replies: 39
Views: 4077

Re: How to perfectly relax butterflies : the vodka method

My vodka brand is "Eristoff", 37,5% alcohol. But my friend is using other vodka brands and I have never checked the alcohol % on his vodka, I guess all vodka would work. I think the water in the fridge works fine, I did want to comment on alcohol sold outside of the USA though, I don't dr...
by kevinkk
Mon Dec 12, 2022 11:40 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Good news everyone!
Replies: 21
Views: 4919

Re: Good news everyone!

Awesome job Chuck. When I first started my career as a self employed roofer I paid 5k in taxes I wasn't prepared for .Later my super accountant would go through my receipts. Then he would say, maybe if you go home and double check you can find some more deductions
by kevinkk
Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:34 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Good news everyone!
Replies: 21
Views: 4919

Good news everyone!

Beginning next year, if you sell a total of 600usd using a third party, like PayPal, Venmo, and any other payment application, guess what? You get to support the government! How cool is that! Yep. You'll get to pay taxes on that money, I'm am so stoked. I mean, our tax dollars go to support such wor...
by kevinkk
Mon Dec 12, 2022 3:58 am
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Global Habitat Loss
Replies: 2
Views: 616

Re: Global Habitat Loss

The inexorable march of "civilization". I was a part of it as a contractor. But we built cute houses. I live next to a subdivision that used to be a forested gully, and if you had seen it 40, 30,or 20 years ago, you'd have thought- that gully will never change, it's too steep to build on. ...
by kevinkk
Mon Dec 12, 2022 1:52 am
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Reproduction, Fakes, Modifications, and Fraud
Replies: 3
Views: 1913

Re: Reproduction, Fakes, Modifications, and Fraud

Agreed. Photography and depicting pertinent subject matter is not easy. Every time I try taking a picture of a full moon or rainbow, the result isn't even close to what I saw with my naked eyes. Same thing with my eBay pictures. It takes thousands of pictures to get it right, sd cards are a gift fro...
by kevinkk
Sun Dec 11, 2022 9:49 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Reproduction, Fakes, Modifications, and Fraud
Replies: 3
Views: 1913

Re: Reproduction, Fakes, Modifications, and Fraud

I don't know we we need to agree to disagree or not. I couldn't care less what the dictionary says about the word "fake", in my judgment anything that is manipulated to look better, or is not representative of the actual reality of a behavior is not real, and I would use the word fake to d...
by kevinkk
Fri Dec 09, 2022 7:46 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Consul panariste
Replies: 32
Views: 2006

Re: Consul panariste

This has been very interesting. I also have looked this insect up on eBay, and don't need to worry about possessing one$.
I will begin my leaf mimics with something less expensive.
by kevinkk
Thu Dec 08, 2022 10:52 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Rearing of North American papilios in Central America
Replies: 10
Views: 1133

Re: Rearing of North American papilios in Central America

Certainly, day length at the equator is even, I was thinking more of the cold periods most of our temperate species experience.
I suppose you won't know for sure until you try it. I know day length will have an effect, I use timers whenever I rear indoors, regardless
of species.
by kevinkk
Thu Dec 08, 2022 4:14 am
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: I caught it and that's all I know
Replies: 2
Views: 565

Re: I caught it and that's all I know

I've had this guy sine August 29, captured at Lost Lake in Linn county Oregon. My cricket book isn't much help. I think it might be called a "grig" In any event, he's alive and well, what it eats, I don't know, I give it oats, granola, dried plant material, and water. It has grown since A...
by kevinkk
Thu Dec 08, 2022 1:14 am
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: I caught it and that's all I know
Replies: 2
Views: 565

I caught it and that's all I know

I've had this guy sine August 29, captured at Lost Lake in Linn county Oregon. My cricket book isn't much help. I think it might be called a "grig" In any event, he's alive and well, what it eats, I don't know, I give it oats, granola, dried plant material, and water. It has grown since Au...
by kevinkk
Thu Dec 08, 2022 12:17 am
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Rearing of North American papilios in Central America
Replies: 10
Views: 1133

Re: Rearing of North American papilios in Central America

It sounded weird to me as well. But whatever floats your boat I suppose. I was amazed to see how many people in the EU raise Lymantria dispar- Seems like there would be some diapause issues anyway with more northern species. I still recall seeing dispar ova covering everything, same with the "t...