Correction: Re: Moth Collecting May Soon Be Frowned Upon

[Jonathan Sylvestre]

Paul,

I think killing moth (particularly when killing more specimens than needed) 
on light traps have much more impact than driving a SUV on a road at night. 
Most of the time, the moths species we kill on light traps would had never 
crossed a road and be killed by a car... unless you setup your light trap in 
a non specific habitat on the side of a major road... I think most of 
entomologists setup their light traps far away from any major road and 
cities... where we find the "surviving" moth. Thats why it have a greater 
impact than road kill in city higway...

Also... why diminushing our negative impact by comparing it to something 
else that we suspect having a greater negative impact ???  All negatives 
impacts are negative to the moths populations...whether they are big or 
small...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Cherubini" <monarch at saber.net>
To: <LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu>
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Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: Correction: Re: Moth Collecting May Soon Be Frowned Upon


> Carolyn King wrote:
>
>> Paul, none of our officers drives a big SUV ( or, I
>> believe, a van) and car-pooling is encouraged.
>
>> I would expect that anyone with any conscience
>> or understanding of ecosystems would choose
>> to kill any organisms without a good reason.
>
> Carol, my point is the Toronto Entomologist's Association
> WOULD NOT OBJECT to any member or officer driving
> a big SUV or Van, even though such vehicles are essentially
> recreational killing machines.  They kill not for just
> in one evening, but for thousands of days of use.
>
> Ditto in regard to any member or officer who owns a
> big butterfly and moth habitat consuming home on a
> big lot.  Again the TEA would not object even though
> the killing (via lep habitat loss) is recreational in nature
> would be continual for the life of the home (likely
> 100+ years).
>
> Ditto in regard to any member or officer who is overweight.
> Again the TEA would not object even though the killing
> (via lep habitat lost due to the extra acreage devoted to
> growing more food and farm animals) is once again
> recreational in nature would be continual for decades.
>
> Paul Cherubini
> El Dorado, Calif.
>
>
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