problems with pupae at the airport?

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>
>Forget the potential insult to other countries - Mike's response is a
>powerful display of  ignorance combined with stupidity.
 
Perhaps only a differing and important viewpoint.
>
>In the USA, exotic species cause BILLIONS of dollars of damage to our
>economy and ecosystems every year.  They range from harmless plants such as
>dandelions
 
They are good food and an agricultural plant in other nations.  Perhaps eating
them would solve the problem although they are sort of pretty.
 
 ( which still cost many home owners hundreds to control), to
>gypsy moths that defoliate hundreds of thousands of acres of forests every
>year - killing mature white oaks in the process.
 
Brought in by which moth enthusiast.  Sorry but the big boys did this one!
 
>
>As a relevant aside, the primary predator of the Federally endangered Karner
>Blue is an exotic predatory beetle that eats the larvae.
 
Brought in by a beetle enthusiast I suppose?
>
>So to answer the original question, there are indeed laws designed to
>inhibit the importation of exotic species into the US.  There's even a
>presidential initiative designed to slow the rate at which exotics invade
>the country.
 
There is also a "presidential initiative" to snoop on your electronic
transmissions.  1984 a little late huh?
 
 
  When you fill out a customs form,
 
Which form is that by the way, they have many.
 
 you are specifically asked
>if you have any living plants or animals in your possession.  If so, you are
>routed to an agricultural inspector, who will politely
 
Whoo Haaa!
 
 confiscate said
>material (unless you have a permit to import it - then you need to see Fish
>and Wildlife in addition).
 
Ah yes, two where one can do.
 
 
 All this is designed to protect the economy and
>citizens of the country.  If you are caught smuggling livestock into the US
>there are criminal penalties and fines to be paid.
 
Typical of most nations. Now lets see where does the U.S. stack up against
other countries in the number of people incarcerated?
 
 
>
>Thus, if it is too much bother for folks who care more about their own
>interests in rearing pretty butterflies and moths to moderate
 
You mean abandon of course, especially if the likes of NABA has its way.
 
 
 their
>activities, such that potential damage to others can be avoided, I suggest
>that you find an anarchist society in which to live - one where personal
>rights out- weigh the greater good of society.  A society where you can
>proudly where the badge of both ignorance and stupidity.
 
Do you know of one?  I would suggest that perhaps you might like a police state
or something like that where you could have fun and leave us be.
 
Actually a functional Anarchist state could hardly have stupid people in it now
could it?
>
 
S.