InsectNet forum

Tokyo Insect Fair 2024 has been very successful with a lot of collectors. Have a look to that queue.

Please note also the "age" of visitors. As you can see insect collecting is far from being "doomed" at all (thing that I often read from our senior members here).
Some pictures from inside : Paris Insect Fair has been very good too. I chatted with several sellers who all told me their sales were much better than in the previous years.
Good to share some good news !

wollastoni wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 7:23 am Please note also the "age" of visitors. As you can see insect collecting is far from being "doomed" at all (thing that I often read from our senior members here).

Paris Insect Fair has been very good too. I chatted with several sellers who all told me their sales were much better than in the previous years.
Good to share some good news !

It's good to see that at least in Japan there are some younger enthusiasts.

My impression of Juvisy was very different from yours. There were at least 3 or 4 major sellers missing who have been fixtures there for years, and the number of vistors seemed to be well down on previous years to me.

I'm not even going to bother going to Frankfurt this year for the first time in many years. Last year, there were about half the usual number of traders and even fewer visitors. During both fairs I managed to pick up 3 or 4 specimens that I could easily have bought online. I can't justify the cost of going to the fairs for that.

I fear that the days of the major European fairs are numbered.

Who was missing except retired sellers (Porion, Castelain ?)

I agree that the future of fairs is at risk, and it is normal as people can buy insects online everyday now. It is sad as these fairs are also a great way to meet people/other entomologists.
My point was more about the age of participants and the fact that sellers at Juvisy were happy.

wollastoni wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 9:47 am Who was missing except retired sellers (Porion, Castelain ?)

I was thinking of those two, I didn't know they'd retired. Also Michael Buche and the couple that sell all the display cases (don't remember their names), and I knew that Didier Carlot wouldn't be there. And of course, the Russians haven't been there for a few years.

Michael Büche will be in Frankfurt.
He confirmed this to me today.

bobw wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 2:57 pm and the couple that sell all the display cases (don't remember their names)

If you are talking about Pyramide company, they both died (very young).

I would add that there were some new interesting sellers like Nic Grimaldi.