Collecting around The Philippines

point taken! Thanks

Anyone else has some stuff/experiences they want to share?
Anyone know of any collectors there or someone else with knowledge that might arrange som guided trips etc?

1. Go into the forest ; when alone,

2. take your collapsible net butterfly and open it

3. Have always on you a photo camera ; if asked by some authority what you are doing, let answer you are taking pictures and that, sometimes, you need the net to approach the butterfly. Nowhere in the world, butterfly picturing is prohibited.

4. Before getting out the country, insert your samples into a parcel between books or souvenirs. On the label, write "souvenirs" and post it to your own adress or to a friend adress.

Of course, in that kind of countries where butterfly collecting is banned, never turn on a bulb for night collecting !

hehe thanks for answer. I allready have a collapsible net

Do you have a solution if they ask to check my backpack, and they find dead specimens?

nice... i see u are experienced It's nice that someone has the balls to admit it atleast

About walking the forests alone, i wont do that. But i just got som nice info from another friend of mine of a person who might do guided trips there, so this is looking good so far ;P

Thanks again for info and tips

Today, you must become naughty! In many countries (South America, India, China, Palawan, etc..) collecting butterflies is now banned (supposedly to preserve the species), while deforestation continues at high speed, resulting in the disappearance of species that scientists have not had time to discover and describe. These prohibitions are most often done by the bureaucrats who give themselves good conscience or environmentalists who know nothing in butterflies. This is also often described in this forum and should denounce the alliance between bureaucrats and environmentalists who comes at the expense of scientists.

For South America, will be compared, for example, Brazil, on one side, where hunting butterfly is prohibited and where the forest is reduced to a trickle and, on the other side, French Guiana where collection of butterflies is not banned and where the forest is almost intact!

I just came back from Sabah. In this country, over 40% of the primary forest was destroyed for palm oil! You can drive hundreds of km in seeing that oil palm. The pieces of forest that remain have become parks or reserves where collection of butterflies is prohibited! This time with the necessary authorizations and experienced guides, I could study some transects:
- Planting of palm oil: less than a dozen species very common and ubiquitous
- Edge of the forest: more than 25 species of interest in one hour.

However, the presence from time to time of two or three entomologists "accredited" is not sufficient to meet all the richness of biodiversity.

That is a great one. Have a jar of mosquitos and offer to open it and [glow=red,2,300]release them![/glow]