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Post by kingha on Jan 11, 2014 18:23:05 GMT -8
Does most of your collection come from buying material or from your own collecting efforts? Is it from your own home country or foreign country?
Here is mine: own collecting 90% buying 10%
Home country 94% foreign 6%
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Post by bugboys3 on Jan 11, 2014 18:40:25 GMT -8
Most of my collection is from my own collecting. I just started purchasing exotics about 4 years ago. I'd say about 75% my own 25% bought.
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Post by mantisboy on Jan 11, 2014 18:51:44 GMT -8
Probably slightly over 90% collected, less than 10% purchased. All purchased ones are from other countries except a few Hemileuca that I bought that are from California.
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Post by bugboys3 on Jan 11, 2014 19:06:30 GMT -8
Most of my collection is from my own collecting. I just started purchasing exotics about 4 years ago. I'd say about 75% my own 25% bought.
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Post by bugboys3 on Jan 11, 2014 19:13:27 GMT -8
Sorry for the double post. I can't figure out how to delete the second one.
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Post by lucanidae25 on Jan 11, 2014 19:55:59 GMT -8
With in my own country 99% self collected
Foreign countries with dealers 99% bought
Foreign countries with out dealers 100% self collected
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Post by rjb on Jan 11, 2014 20:18:07 GMT -8
My collection (beetles) is essentially all collected. Maybe about 100 purchased and >65000 collected/pinned specimens. I've collected all over the world, but I haven't tried to quantify what fraction are from my home area in New Mexico, USA.
Rick
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Post by lordpandarus on Jan 12, 2014 8:44:23 GMT -8
100% purchased!
But I'd like to go on a real collecting trip in the tropics one day
As for the butterflies flying aroung here I just look at them and don't try to catch them (I used to as a kid)
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Post by beetlehorn on Jan 12, 2014 9:49:38 GMT -8
I would guess approx. 40% bought, 20% trade, and the rest self captured.
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Post by anthony on Jan 12, 2014 9:50:12 GMT -8
Almost all purchased but do collect locally.
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Post by rjb on Jan 12, 2014 17:37:06 GMT -8
A followup: I've been working on Eumolpinae, a subfamily of Chrysomelidae. I counted and I have 332 specimens from North America and 534 specimens from collecting on other continents (Oh and two specimens were purchased). So 60% international- I think this subfamily is not representative of the entire collection because these leaf beetles are particularly abundant and diverse in the tropics. Walking trails in the Amazon or Indonesia I find them very easily, much more so than in the arid southwestern US.
Rick
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 13, 2014 3:32:38 GMT -8
My Delias collection must be own collecting 10% buying 90% The rest of my collections shoud be own collecting 90%, buying 10% as it is mainly the results of my various collecting trips. An interesting article on my blog : Quel objectif macro pour les papillons et les insectes |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2014 9:08:05 GMT -8
Living in Northern England your collection would be very poor indeed if you relied on self caught material, I would say mine is 10% self caught and 90% purchased.
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Post by cabintom on Jan 13, 2014 10:09:27 GMT -8
I've never purchased an insect... not that I wouldn't want to, I just don't have the luxury of having disposable income.
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Post by 58chevy on Jan 15, 2014 9:02:40 GMT -8
80% caught, 20% bought or traded for
All the caught specimens are from the USA
I hope to collect in the tropics some day.
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