Post by artemis on Mar 14, 2013 10:08:09 GMT -8
I've been lurking around here for a while, doing research and being nosy, and I've finally decided to join up after a couple months of research and pondering before deciding to finally get into collecting insects. I am completely new to this so expect a lot of questions and mistakes from me but that's how we learn right?
I started a thread in the Lepidoptera section asking for any advice or help you might give this newbie
as I said there, I started thinking about getting into insect collecting after my boyfriend got me an already framed Madagascar Sunset Moth. I've been wanting to get into collecting something for a while now, my sister collects fossils (nothing rare or expensive, just small affordable ones) and her boyfriend collects coins, it seemed like a lot of fun and very interesting but I couldn't think of anything that I was really interested in that had a form of collecting. So when my boyfriend got me the moth it struck me a bit, I loved catching bugs when I was a kid. And I mean loved it, if I could catch it, I did, and I spent most of my time outside doing it. I usually released them though. So I kind of feel like I'm getting back to my roots with this.
So, after a few months of research, I'm officially getting into it. I plan on purchasing my supplies here in the next few months and then beginning to buy my specimens. I'll be buying them dried. I thought about catching or rearing them but I don't think I could kill anything like that. For food or self defense, sure, but I couldn't just kill a butterfly. That raised the dilemma of 'well if I won't do it then why should I pay for others to do it instead, that's pretty hypocritical'. Needless to say, I felt much more secure and confident about going into this when I learned what a big contribution to the preservation of wildlife species and habitats these butterfly farms and breeders make.
Anyway, I just wanted to say hello officially. A bit about myself, I live and grew up in Alabama, USA, and live with my boyfriend of two years and our gun loving room mate (think of every stereotype of a military, right wing, red neck conservative in one guy and then make him five feet tall and that's my room mate) and our corgi mix Willow. I work as a security guard while going to school for radiology, I really wanted to go for wildlife biology but it just isn't in the cards for me right now.
I started a thread in the Lepidoptera section asking for any advice or help you might give this newbie
as I said there, I started thinking about getting into insect collecting after my boyfriend got me an already framed Madagascar Sunset Moth. I've been wanting to get into collecting something for a while now, my sister collects fossils (nothing rare or expensive, just small affordable ones) and her boyfriend collects coins, it seemed like a lot of fun and very interesting but I couldn't think of anything that I was really interested in that had a form of collecting. So when my boyfriend got me the moth it struck me a bit, I loved catching bugs when I was a kid. And I mean loved it, if I could catch it, I did, and I spent most of my time outside doing it. I usually released them though. So I kind of feel like I'm getting back to my roots with this.So, after a few months of research, I'm officially getting into it. I plan on purchasing my supplies here in the next few months and then beginning to buy my specimens. I'll be buying them dried. I thought about catching or rearing them but I don't think I could kill anything like that. For food or self defense, sure, but I couldn't just kill a butterfly. That raised the dilemma of 'well if I won't do it then why should I pay for others to do it instead, that's pretty hypocritical'. Needless to say, I felt much more secure and confident about going into this when I learned what a big contribution to the preservation of wildlife species and habitats these butterfly farms and breeders make.
Anyway, I just wanted to say hello officially. A bit about myself, I live and grew up in Alabama, USA, and live with my boyfriend of two years and our gun loving room mate (think of every stereotype of a military, right wing, red neck conservative in one guy and then make him five feet tall and that's my room mate) and our corgi mix Willow. I work as a security guard while going to school for radiology, I really wanted to go for wildlife biology but it just isn't in the cards for me right now.
