I just gave away all my North American butterflies

[jshuey]

I have always been pressed for space in my collection. And since I started working in the neotropics, I have hardly touched my North American bugs. I doubt that I have spread anything from the region for over 20 years So, in a bold more, I gave them away! Well, except for the Hesperiidae. This really will free up space (33 drawers). In the name of space in the forum - here's are links to the other drawers that are on there way out. As you can see it was a modest collection mostly from the Great Lakes region, but there are some really cool bugs included. In some cases, the only known records from Indiana. With a scattering from across the country and Canada as well. I'm a little nostalgic about some of them,
but it will allow me to fucus my resources on the bugs that really matter to me.

John


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[exoticimports]

Better now than later. Some day we will all give them away, perhaps with compensation that we won’t use.

Too many lifetime collections have gone to waste when retained too long.

Good for you John.

Chuck

[LEPMAN]

Absolutely beautiful specimens! Those regals and zebras are candy to my eyes!

[leptraps]

I have made arrangements for my collection once my life comes to an end and the good Lord calls me home.
These arrangements are spelled out in my Will.

My collection in it's entirety and my Library will go to the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity in Gainesville, Florida.

What every is remains, spreading boards, Bait Traps, Light Traps and other personal collecting gear to the highest bidder.

E everything that remains belongs to my oldest son, Gregory.

It is just that simple.

[jshuey]

Jun 15, 2020 7:50:53 GMT -8 leptraps said:

I have made arrangements for my collection once my life comes to an end and the good Lord calls me home.
These arrangements are spelled out in my Will.

My collection in it's entirety and my Library will go to the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity in Gainesville, Florida.

What every is remains, spreading boards, Bait Traps, Light Traps and other personal collecting gear to the highest bidder.

E everything that remains belongs to my oldest son, Gregory.

It is just that simple.

It is. My collection is headed to the USNM where it will compliment their very strong neotropical holdings. The North American stuff did not excite them as they already have VERY extensive US material. So I gave this material to a private collector who assures me that they will live forever - but if not it will go to a Land Grant university collection as part of his estate. At that university, it will add a regional flavor that is not well represented in their collection.

It's not just a matter of giving the collection to a random repository, it's a matter of deciding where your material best fits and how it will be used.

In both cases, these bugs hopefully become important additions to research collections, not just redundant material that takes up space.

John

[bugboys3]

Lots of nice butterflies John. The Fritillary ab is really cool.

[jshuey]

Jun 18, 2020 8:53:27 GMT -8 bugboys3 said:

Lots of nice butterflies John. The Fritillary ab is really cool.

I tracked that bug for over an hour in a canyon in Idaho.... It finally got too close, and I nailed it.

john