I need help.......

[Paul Cherubini]

Neil Jones wrote:

> The website quotes a scientist as saying that the kind of releases that it supports
> are OK when in fact he is saying the opposite. That releases should only
> be performed as part of a scientifically controlled process, NOT at the
> wedding of "Bimbo and Rambo" :-)

One of the very largest monarch butterfly breeders in the USA is a butterfly
conservation organization run by the University of Kansas. It's called the Monarch
Watch and Prof. Chip Taylor, Chairman of the Dept. of Entomology, is in charge. 

The Monarch Watch ships out TENS OF THOUSANDS of monarch caterpillars
annually all over the central and eastern USA to be raised and released by children and
teachers (relatively few of them are tagged). In recent weeks, for example, the 
Monarch Watch shipped 5000 caterpillars to one customer alone in Pennsylvania -
about 1000 miles away from Kansas.  

Neil, if you feel releases can cause biological harm, why is it that
you publicly object only to wedding type releases. Why don't you publicly
object when an academic institution like the University of Kansas
fails to perform releases "as part of a scientifically controlled process"?

Paul Cherubini