I cannot believe the Prices!!

Nothing is more expensive than going and getting it yourself. But it’s far more rewarding.

I’d far rather spend the money to go than spend it on dead specimens via mail. But that’s me.

When you are out collecting you can always find something interesting, and it is not always insects. Many years ago while collecting in South Carolina near Myrtle Beach, stumbled onto a couple having sex. She was sitting on the tail gate of a pick up truck, he was standing with his pants around his ankles and her legs pointing at the clouds and he was throwing her the golden bone.

When they saw me, I bid them a Good Day and kept on walking.

Where would one find Hypolimnas exiguus for sale? That's one of those beauties that has to be caught on-site.

Chuck

I certainly do now believe the Chinese have lots of money, I went to Oxford recently and it was packed with them, all enjoying the history and culture.

Back in the late 1970's I met a Chinses Lepidopterist and his wife at a Lepidopterist Society meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. They were 20+ years older the my wife and I. They were born in China, raised by British Missionaries and fled China after WW2 with the rise communism and Mao Zedong & Company.
They told us between the Japanese, Russians and Mao Zedong the slaughter was unbelievable. After fleeing China they eventually settled in Canada. They also said that China would Eventually become a world power and would fall in love with the US Dollar.

I (Leptraps) have conducted business in China (Causally). It can be rather difficult. It is however a huge market.

While conducting a survey of Lepidoptera in some state forests in central Indiana, I met a Hispanic man and his son. The son is a upcoming Lepidopterist and is currently attending college at IU. They (The family) had just returned to the US from working in China for his employer. They told me that there were many Lepidopterist in China.

My concern with doing business is how they Chinese operate. Prior to my retirement I worked in the Sheet Metal product industry. My last employer made Lockers (School/gymasium). We changed a hole location in door for the handle. To prevent mixing old and new products we punched a hex hole in the top flange of the door in place of a round hole. These holes were used to hang the door on a paint line and enabled us to separate old from new. Several years later, we were contact by a Chinese Company who wanted to do business with us. When the visited us they brought a sample locker with them that they were manufacturing in China. When we saw the product it was an exact copy of ours and included the hex hole in the flange. An exact copy.

That is how the Chinese operated then and from what I have heard recently, still do. The real shocker for us was the price. We could buy our product from them complete for what it cost us to buy the steel only.

Word of caution. Carefully enter that market. If there is enough money involved, there could be InsectNet with a fortune Cookie with every sale.

Oups !