What is a lepidopterist?

[Bob Parcelles,Jr.]

--- Paul Cherubini <monarch at saber.net> wrote:
> Anne Kilmer wrote:
> 
> > As Bob points out, these butterflies are sufficiently improbable


Paul said:


> Don't all of you recognize the potential harm you could cause to 
> the south Florida Miami Blue population by rearing and releasing
> breeding stock acquired in the West Indies?
> Do you think the commercial butterfly breeders are going to let 
> you get by with breeding and releasing non-local Miami Blues?
> Heck, we're already working on a press release:
>
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> The butterfly breeders association fears that captive raised Miami 
> Blues, using breeding stock acquired from the West Indies, could 
> alter the genetic make-up of the endangered south Florida area  
> population. "It's cruel and terrible behavior, Cherubini says,
> likening 
> it to promoting cigarettes and pornography. "West Indies Blues 
> might be navigationally confused when relocated to south Florida 
> and unable to find the larval host plants activists have planted
> for
> them."
> 
> Mr. Cherubini's cheif concern is that captive raised Miami 
> Blues could spread disease to the endangered south Florida
> area population or even foster the development of new 
> diseases.  There's no proof this has ever happened, he
> concedes, "but there's no way to prove they're going to
> cause a disaster until they do and then it's too late".
> 
 Paul, 

Very cutsy. It is certainly the best form of humor. Not "dark" at
all. 

However, always put your title on the bottom of a press release...
"Paul Cherubini, President, Monarch Watchers and Guardian
Association"


Se ya in the Keys Paul,

Bob Parcelles, Jr.
Chairman and Top Dog, Gene Pool Screwer-Uppers Association

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Bob Parcelles, Jr
Pinellas Park, FL
RJP Associates, C2M-BWPTi
rjparcelles at yahoo.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturepotpourri
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale

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