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Post by jackblack on Jul 26, 2013 1:46:14 GMT -8
Hi Wollastoni, I sent the specimens Registered Mail as the EMS won`t carry live or dried specimens from Australia. I think maybe you are right , a new worker may start in the post office and is know it all.I await to hear from my customer. Last year I sent live giant roaches to France and the two parcels came back 3 times and each time I resent them .They tried to say illegal export from my end but all export permits were attached , my customer eventually got the parcels and was about to take the post office to court and they compensated him .As I told my customers giant Australian bush roaches the biggest in the world are tough , he could not agree more , they were the most travelled roaches in the world. You need to stand your ground sometimes . Thanks for your imput. I`ll ask my customer how his investigation went.
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Post by jackblack on Jul 25, 2013 2:03:04 GMT -8
My customer in France told me in Italy this law has been in some time regarding these certificates , now it has come to France . In Australia if the customs suspect pests in a parcel they will contact you and you have the option to have parcel fumigated or they will destroy it . You have to pay the fumigation fee , I don`t know what that is these days . I haven`t had a parcel infested yet I buy from reputable dealers , not backyard sellers want a quick buck , so no doubt our customs inspections are thorough also. But a countries whole agriculture could be at stake with a rotten parcel coming in , agriculture is worth millions to the economy . so understandable , but the Gov`t I think needs to have the right people working on the job , a certified entomologist , not horse doctor or witch doctor. But to inspect my 16 beetles and customer has to pay 145 Euro is simply crazy. Maybe dealers selling insects need some sort of accreditation with Gov`t , it happens with all other industries , and now it looks like it will hit us as well. I can vouch for my specimens as I collect and prepare them all myself.Anything I buy in is for my personal collection. Where will all this lead ?
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Post by jackblack on Jul 23, 2013 17:04:41 GMT -8
Re French customs. My customer dealer in France just told me the customs hold my parcel and await a Phytosanitary inspection certificate , new law says my customer.So guys get ready to open your wallet again ! My customer had to pay 145 Euro for a veterinary inspection ,to inspect 16x beetles, a very rare beetle was damaged by them . So who is responsible for the damaged item ? Should the customs not have an entomologist doing such an inspection instead of a horse doctor maybe who would have no experience dealing with such a delicate item. Specimen was A1 when sent , double boxed , inner box strong plastic tupperware style and inner box was wrapped in cotton wool as well as specimens between layers of cotton. I never ever had specimens arrived damaged to my customers before . This is really bad news if this is the way of the future. Already so much over regulation and now this nonsense by some Gov`t amateur.
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Post by jackblack on Jul 19, 2013 2:14:14 GMT -8
Need help People mentioned UPS freight . Who`s that ? I have a real problem moving ova from Austrlia as ems won`t carry live or dried specimens from here. So restricted to Air Mail , not good. Have ova but restricted in movement . Jack
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Post by jackblack on Jul 16, 2013 23:29:40 GMT -8
Hi Everyone, First off let me appologise for critising and pointing the finger here at anyone re illegal exports I`m truly sorry. Now I`m starting to understand a bit more about how the ebay works. I`m pleased to see everyone supports regulations .OK some things spms find their way around somehow. I don`t want to get into the bracket and get a reputation of dobbing people in either. Olivier I don`t sell my material on the ebay , mostly I work with dealers and collectors.As I mentioned I`m not a computer person and am busy tied up with my work breeding collecting ect , its never a dull moment when one has a large block to maintain as well as make a living. I just made a new customer recently and you will probably see his material of Australian insects come up for sale here and there , so legally obtained and exported. I shouldn`t get so easily annoyed I guess also. Still look forward to updates ect and appreciate valuable comments made by people here. Cheers, Jack.
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Post by jackblack on Jul 16, 2013 8:13:45 GMT -8
Legislation is legislation , a difference between selling a specimen legal and illegal.Its easy to sit in your chair overseas and say that. Sit in a chair here and say that you will be arrested . This is what I mean I talk about this ### and you guys just keep talking around the subject just to get your specimen and don`t care about how it was obtained , legal or illegal , its on the market not cities I want it OK buy it .I think the seller should be aware what he sells .Or he has no ethics although you portray you have..But then, I think that went out the window years ago.But you say oh we have morals and we support conservation. Like I say I do give up. Australian authorities can`t check every parcel exported .So you africaone are basically saying if an illegal specimen comes up on the market , who gives a ### , its advertised I`ll buy it.Maybe after you buy it you should say and report where it came from . Oh of course not , we don`t know about these things. Up to me ho hum. If Cities or not . Legal export is legal. Otherwise is shifty. As I said earlier . Easy to say I`m not aware of whats going on , saw it for sale on insectnet so buy it . Anyway I give up the point . People will buy whats there and available illegal or not . So you don`t care as long as you get the specimen . Poor ethics. If I said I had to chop down a 100 year old tree to get the specimen which was illegal to export you would say the same thing . I better go fishing more often than waste my time here . Cheers guys
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Post by jackblack on Jul 16, 2013 6:01:51 GMT -8
I`m not sure how your collector secret site works , I`m not a computer whiz.But reading a few comments a few people are not happy about the way things progress and you acknowledge and correct some adds/comments. I can see you are willing to help?
But you are advertising illegally exported specimens. Whether you know it or not.Easy to ignore it I guess , I hope you don`t. Even if I reported illegally exported specimens to ebay or who ever I doubt it will make a difference, its not cities , they say oh from old collection or some ridiculous comment. , But I`m talking to you , and you can make a difference . I don`t know what information you get. But should you not know a bit more about what you advertise? Legal or illegal . Not just take a percentage of whatever is going on ebay. Do you support legal trade ?
Do tell me where your Buprestid you advertise as rare Temognatha aquillonia comes from ? I know , Mt Molloy Nth Qld I collected it. Maybe we can do a good business in the future , I can catch lots of butterflies and breed some and have all legal export permits .Only one in Aust . I specialise in beetles and have permits to export many species of butterflies from my immediate area and I need a customer, lowland rainforest and inland Eucalypt forest , send me a list of wants and I can work on helping you . Support the legal guys. Let me know and I can send you my full list of species I can export. I`m a single collector , here we don`t have kids running around with nets catching everything they can like in some countries. You say you are making minimum profit , I can help you double or triple that with north Queensland species , give me a go. Support an insectnet advertiser, you might be surprised. Jack
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Post by jackblack on Jul 16, 2013 2:57:09 GMT -8
re collectors secret page/site. I find it interesting how beetles I sold to a collector in Australia are advertised by this guy OS. How did he manage an export permit for these species when I can`t get one. eg ; Temognatha aquillonia Buprestidae ,advertised as rare, I`m the only person to have ever collected males of this species . Also other specimens Lucanidae set and pinned by me are here also , I know my specimens. Do you support illegal trade ? The guy supporting Collector secret - Olivier ? I wrote to you about advertising my legally collected and exported specimens to sell , not a reply. Gee if you advertised my beetles I could offer you a good very attractive discount and it would help you.
Wow ! I just had an upset phone call from an Australian collector .No names mentioned , as I didn`t use his full name in my comment yet he was very upset .He says I pin pointed him! Asking me to edit my comments here. So till we sort this out I will do so. His friend, the guy who rang me, in WA saw my comment to collector secret , The guy in Aust didn`t want to mention who it was in WA who alerted him for some reason ?? Yet his friend knew who I was talking about and rang him immediately . So maybe the guy in WA can tell him where these comments are on insectnet then also just as fast. No wonder people are getting upset with collector secret. Olivier ? must be a better way of making a buck ?
Hope you can shed a bit more light on where the specimens you advertise are coming from.
Quite some time ago I was talking about illegal trade , and all that came up on insectnet was , BASICALLY, oh we know nothing about it .But we sell the illegally export specimens some how , secret I guess. I gave up as nobody was willing to say anything and it was all going around in circles with useless comments except what was fact. Guess I`ll just stick my head in the ground like an Ostrich or some secret insect collector and ignore the facts that it all exists.Just get on with making a small $ when I could be advertising legal specimens and making more of a $ Life will go on and it will get harder and harder for the legitimate collector and exporter in the future.Thanks to some secret people. I already see a state in the US has banned all collecting even on private land . I WONDER WHY , must be secret from the collectors point of view. Maybe the man himself can say why he advertises illegally exported material.If not illegal he can come up with a source.I don`t think your friends will support you. I notice once a name came up re who collector S is , attitudes changed because people found out who it was, a friend , colleague? Once again I think I have opened a can of worms and the ### hits the fan. Quite often I think I should spend more time on my real hobby fishing and forget about supplying legally exported specimens. What a headache!
OK man in WA , happy now.Report to your colleague .
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Post by jackblack on May 9, 2013 0:34:31 GMT -8
Just another note on Ray. He was always trying to cross breed Papilio ulysses and P.aegeus in Kuranda. One day he came and told us he finally had larva , but they eventually died. He hand paired the butterflies , he said he probably used the wrong food plant for the larva maybe why they died. He said if he reared them through he would name it Uleageus. Has anyone else tried this rearing hybridising of these species ?
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Post by jackblack on May 9, 2013 0:26:01 GMT -8
Just found the info on Ray Staatman well done, nice to know more about the man.I met Ray in Kuranda about 1986 and when he was making some hybrids came for a visit one morning and there was a freshly emerged male O.p.euphorion hanging near a vine in my garden , Ray said I need this for my breeding and coaxed the butterfly onto his finger , I said watch it will fly away , he laughed and said don`t be silly its too fresh to fly , then it flew away , it was a hilarious moment. Ray was always a jovial fellow when we knew him in Kuranda, accompanied him on a few local collecting trips his humour was endless , he had monkey skulls on his cupboard and introduced them as his past children , I was surprised to get a call from the executor to Rays last will and testament one morning to tell me Ray left me some insects , a nice collection of rare beetles , which I greatly treasure.Ray was a great inspiration in my early years of collecting.
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Post by jackblack on May 7, 2013 0:00:19 GMT -8
When I went to boarding school on the 70`s Charters Towers north Qld , on weekends I would scoot outside school boundaries and wander about the scrub and noticed the old gold miners sometimes dumped their bottles in old creeks beds , maybe hoping the wet season rains would wash them away , many were covered in silt , I walked along old creek beds and when I saw broken glass about , dug into the banks and found some neat old bottles , still have them in boxes of accumulated stuff around here somewhere.
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Post by jackblack on Mar 22, 2013 19:58:56 GMT -8
yes they are nice. Some people are asking ridiculous prices for live specimens in Australia , like $150 each. Another guy is advertising them at $70 but has none for sale yet. Anyone interested in this species should hold off buying at a ridiculous price like this as very soon they will be around in numbers So will be as cheap as chips then.
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Post by jackblack on Mar 22, 2013 17:16:14 GMT -8
Actually Geoff Monteith collected one of these and he is still well and truly alive.
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Post by jackblack on Feb 6, 2013 15:11:13 GMT -8
I don`t know how long the ruteline live , I never bothered to keep adults alive. Re bait , I use fruit such as Mango , Bnana , anything sweet and very ripe.
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Post by jackblack on Jan 7, 2013 1:12:27 GMT -8
Hi Dusan, Not yet. Its been terribly dry for some time but Xmas day the rain started so hopefully some more beetles about soon Am dealing with a new computer at the moment so till I get it trained or it trains me minor delay in next pics .
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