Post by Borja Gómez on Jan 24, 2012 19:17:25 GMT -8
Hello 
I'm new to this forum and this is my first post, but I've been reading for some time. First of all I would like to apologize for my english, as it's not as good as I would like, although I'm making efforts for improvement
I'm from Spain, have a degree in biology, and actually I'm in process of a doctoral program about coleoptera (staphilinidae more precisely). Despite having a great passion for all kind of animals, the insects are my weakness so I'm an avid collector like most of the people in this forum I think .
presentation made, I'll go whith the issue that is concerning me.
For the kind of work I'm doing with the beetles I usually have to make some sampling in the wild. During this process, I normally get a lot of insects that falls in the traps (pitfall traps mostly, but I use other sampling methods too) and die even when they are not object of my study. That's why I have a lot of unmounted and unutilised insects piled in boxes. But hey! please nobody think I'm emptying or setting fire the amazonic jungle. I probably have 4 or 5 thousands of these insects, which represent a very very small part of the total insect proportion in a very very small amount of terrain (the entomologist necesarily needs to kill his object of study normally, and there is no ecological problem with it. Obviously the thing is different if the object of study are the whales ;D). The vast majority of my insect "excedent" is very common here in Europe (I keep the most rare for my own collection ;D) , and even in the paleartic, but no so common in the neartic. The thing is, I was wondering if I can sell this specimens and send them for example to United States, making a little extra money (very useful for an investigator in my country with practically no funding on research and investigation. sad, I know) and also liberating space ;D. Well, of course I know I can sell specimens, that's supposedly the easy part, but i would also like to make it legally. So anyone could tell me what I have to do or where I can get some good information about the issue? I was reading a bit about this but got a bit overwhelmed and lost by all the legal issues. Is really that hard to send a small box with some dead Carabus to the U.S.A or I'm making too drama, and in fact, send some collected specimens is much easier than I thought. I'm putting the U.S.A example because I think this is the most restrictive place for sending organic organism, dead or not and I think I can send insects to other countries with less problems (correct me if I'm wrong). I would like to say that is not my intention to get rich with this or start an enterprise . Only will try to make a small profit from some specimens I have and give them a purpose.
Anticipated thanks for reading and answering
I'm new to this forum and this is my first post, but I've been reading for some time. First of all I would like to apologize for my english, as it's not as good as I would like, although I'm making efforts for improvement
I'm from Spain, have a degree in biology, and actually I'm in process of a doctoral program about coleoptera (staphilinidae more precisely). Despite having a great passion for all kind of animals, the insects are my weakness so I'm an avid collector like most of the people in this forum I think .presentation made, I'll go whith the issue that is concerning me.
For the kind of work I'm doing with the beetles I usually have to make some sampling in the wild. During this process, I normally get a lot of insects that falls in the traps (pitfall traps mostly, but I use other sampling methods too) and die even when they are not object of my study. That's why I have a lot of unmounted and unutilised insects piled in boxes. But hey! please nobody think I'm emptying or setting fire the amazonic jungle. I probably have 4 or 5 thousands of these insects, which represent a very very small part of the total insect proportion in a very very small amount of terrain (the entomologist necesarily needs to kill his object of study normally, and there is no ecological problem with it. Obviously the thing is different if the object of study are the whales ;D). The vast majority of my insect "excedent" is very common here in Europe (I keep the most rare for my own collection ;D) , and even in the paleartic, but no so common in the neartic. The thing is, I was wondering if I can sell this specimens and send them for example to United States, making a little extra money (very useful for an investigator in my country with practically no funding on research and investigation. sad, I know) and also liberating space ;D. Well, of course I know I can sell specimens, that's supposedly the easy part, but i would also like to make it legally. So anyone could tell me what I have to do or where I can get some good information about the issue? I was reading a bit about this but got a bit overwhelmed and lost by all the legal issues. Is really that hard to send a small box with some dead Carabus to the U.S.A or I'm making too drama, and in fact, send some collected specimens is much easier than I thought. I'm putting the U.S.A example because I think this is the most restrictive place for sending organic organism, dead or not
and I think I can send insects to other countries with less problems (correct me if I'm wrong). I would like to say that is not my intention to get rich with this or start an enterprise . Only will try to make a small profit from some specimens I have and give them a purpose.Anticipated thanks for reading and answering
