killing butterflies for fun???

[Robert Dana]

OK, folks. This smells like bait.

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Robert Dana, Ph.D.
MN DNR
Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program
500 Lafayette Rd, Box 25
St. Paul, MN 55155
651 297-2367
Email: robert.dana at dnr.state.mn.us
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>>> "Joseph Sugar" <josephsugar736 at hotmail.com> 5/9/02 8:25:51 AM >>>
Hi butterfly lovers,

I am new to this group and did a lot of searching to find you all.  I
recently attended an audubon meeting in my county and the speaker did
his 
talk on butterflies.  I went expecting to see pictures of live
butterflies 
and to learn more about them.

Instead, this guy (I won't mention his name - I don't want to get a
lynch 
mob goin ;)), brought in his collection of butterflies that he killed
and 
mounted FOR FUN!

Since this is a butterfly group, I know you will be disturbed to hear
this, 
but I was wondering if there are any laws to protect them?  Can just
anyone 
go out an kill butterflies just for the fun of it?  He also had a
collection 
of moths that had pins through them.  This didn't really bother me as
much 
since most of them are pests, but it would seem to me that we would
have 
laws to protect some of our most beautiful creatures.  What this guy
does, 
and others like him, is morally wrong and I intend to turn around this
disturbing trend that murder is okay as long as the perpetrator is
having 
fun.

Just looking for direction on where to go, and sorry if the discussion
of 
dead butterflies has ruined your breakfast.

Joseph


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Joseph S.
New York, The US of A

"A man who preserves a life, saves a life.
A man who saves a life, gives life.
A man who gives life, is a woman."
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