York/Rock Hill Butterfly Count?

[Alex Netherton]

Hey, you want to add my e-mail to your diatribe? I am also against
collecting. If we collected birds the same way people collect butterflies,
there would soon be no more of them, probably what is happening to
butterflies.....
I can't stand people who kill something and don't eat it.
In an age of digital photography, imaging, all manner of photography, WHY do
we need "voucher" specimens.
If spleens are going to be vent, allow me to vent mine. I was flamed
severely for my views, so let me flame someone!
Lay down your nets everyone! let the butterflies fly free!
Alex Netherton
The Appalachian Naturalist
Asheville, NC
http://www.appalachian-naturalist.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Gatrelle" <gatrelle at tils-ttr.org>
To: <Burnetted at aol.com>; "Carolina Leps" <carolinaleps at duke.edu>; "Leps-l"
<Leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: York/Rock Hill Butterfly Count?


> Bill Burnette wrote the following official statement of police-y on behalf
> of the Carolina Butterfly Society.
> My comments follow his.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Burnetted at aol.com>
> To: <research at hiltonpond.org>; <carolinaleps at duke.edu>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:32 PM
> Subject: Re: York/Rock Hill Butterfly Count?
>
> SNIP
> > One point that you should be aware of is that we are an organization
that
> > promotes butterfly watching, gardening, and education in much the same
> way > that the Audubon Society does for birds. (In fact, many of us are
> Audubon
> > members, too.) Nets and collecting are not allowed on our counts, field
> > trips, and garden walks, though we do welcome photography to help
confirm
> > butterfly identity. There are other excellent organizations that would
be
> > more appropriate for insect collecting.
> >
> > I will be happy to send a membership application to those interested in
> > joining, or you can download one from our website. There is also a
> calendar
> > of trips and counts posted on our site, and you might want to look at
> some of
> > http://www.carolinabutterflysociety.org/
> >
> > Dennis Burnette
> > Membership Chair
> > Carolina Butterfly Society
> > burnetted at aol.com
>
>
> I find the above extremely offensive, bigoted, and ignorant. As a
collector
> I am not welcome (ALLOWED) to ride on this bus and must find my place at
> the other water fountain. The Lepidopterists Society, Southern
> Lepidopterists Society, Ohio, and all others are fully "integrated" with
> arms wide open to all - watchers, collectors, students, professionals,
etc.
> etc.  The Carolina Society (does it have IRS 501 (c) 3 public status to
> loose) is, in the fine southern tradition of the Klan, evidently still
> fully segregated and proud of it.
>
> If I came and brought my net are you going to have me arrested? How are
you
> going to not ALLOW me this legal activity and right?  Are you going to
call
> out the National Guard and stand on the School House steps? I would also
> think that the property owner of a given area or sponsor (in this case
> Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History) would have the say-so on
> who, what, when, and where.
>
> Strange. The NC DNR, US F&W, Forest Service have all paid me to collect
> (voucher) specimens for them and do field surveys - but with you I  am not
> ALLOWED? You all like to watch all the Appalachian Crescents (Phyciodes
> batesii maconensis),  Cullasaja Fritillaries (Speyeria aphrodite
> cullasaja),  Poanes aaroni minimus, Hesperia attalus nigresens, and
Euphyes
> bimacula arbogasti that I discovered IN THE CAROLINAS and wrote the
> scientific papers on.   But I am not ALLOWED?  You all liked the New NC
> state record I just added for Gorgone Checkerspot (Chlosyne gorgone), but
I
> am not ALLOWED?  My recent NC find of Gray Comma (Polygopnia progne),  New
> SC record for Oak Hairstreak and on and on - But I am not ALLOWED.
>
> Are you so unaware that you don't know that when you say "collectors" you
> are  not just using a "term." -- you are insulting someone's mom or dad or
> kid?  A real live human being with feelings and emotions and worth? I am a
> Christian pastor by profession, and the foremost lepidopterist in SC, and
> I'm the evil enemy and NOT ALLOWED?
>
> Rev. Ronald Gatrelle
> President, The International Lepidopterist Survey
> Research Associate Florida Department of Agriculture
>         and Florida State Collection of Arthropods
> Former Executive Council Member, The Lepidopterists' Society
> Past President Southern Lepidopterists' Society
> Former Editor Southern Lepidopterists Society
> Lepidopterists of 45+ years and author of numerous
>            scientific papers.
>
> PS  Shortly after signing up to the carolina-leps chat group, one of your
> members emailed me and told me I bertter lay low as many in this group
were
> militantly anti-collecting and COLLECTORS.  I decided to not receive that
> bad report and just go with the flow.  Until this post I had found
everyone
> to be very nice and open minded. I refuse to believe that the mind set of
> the rank and file members of the Carolina Butterfly Club is as prejudiced
> as that of its leadership apparently is.
>


 
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