Insect Regulations

[Pierre A Plauzoles]

Sunsol wrote:

> Sunsol <SUNSOL at prodigy.net> wrote in message
> news:834kom$1m40$1 at newssvr04-int.news.prodigy.com...
> >
> > Are there rules regulating the treatment of insects?
>
> What about on movie sets? Are there rules about insects? I know there are
> special rules for children. And what may be legal in a lab with a cat is not
> legal on  a set. What about insects in a film? Do they  have rights? Does it
> make a difference if it is a pest like a hornworm or something nice like a
> butterfly?

Sally,

Please don't take this note as criticism of you or your use of words.  Take it
rather as a sign of my intolerance for society's attitude toward insects:
"insects are pests, therefore kill first, ask questions later" -- informed
action is always better.  Perhaps a hornworm is a pest to you and every other
human with even an ounce of common sense, but to a jay or a cickoo, it is dinner
or maybe food for its baby(ies).  This goes for the one eating your tomato as
well as the one that has eating half the foliage on the Datura on the edge of
some desert road in the middle of nowhere.