*I dont knw hoy Blaise has come to conclusion that only experts or those who have published papers should be allowed to rear caterpillars. My concern was abt taking proper care while rearing caterpillars and as far as possible avoid rearing them in captivity as they are part of food chain. Dont we know many birds feed on caterpillars?? What abt them??? Now one will say how many birds are feeding on caterpillars and what if they dont have few caterpillars to feed, what is ratio if caterpillars are not available for them. If we keep arguing abt such mathematical things and try to apply them to biology we will end up doing nothing. * * * *Abt conservation* *Can we start raising funds through Butterflyindia for helping NGOs fighiting against habitat destruction, mining etc.Or we are just group meant to share photographs only??????????????????????????????????????????????????*
Regards On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:33 AM, kalluri subramanyam < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > Broadly I agree with Blaise, his questions are very relevant but truly > there are no proper answers for them and impossible to common conclusion. > > In Dr. Kalesh's argument the implied point is missing human integrity, no > body is ready to share their knowledge (except less than 0.0001%) and it is > better compared to earlier thanks to advancement in communication technology > > Of course this type arguments may change some real ignorant people > > Subramanyam Kalluri > Hyderabad > Mobile: 09866685175 > > "WANDERING ONE GATHERS HONEY" > My Picasa albums: > http://picasaweb.google.com/subbukalluri > ------------------------------ > *From:* Blaise <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Sunday, 27 November 2011 9:11 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [ButterflyIndia] Raising caterpillars > > > > Hi All, > > I am noticing all arguments going in the same direction..... A few > questions hv crossed my mind... > > Was wondering why no one has thought it necessary to encourage newcomers, > students ect., to rear catipillars either for life-cycle studies or other > research??? So what if a few experts hv already done the lifecycles??? Is > ther no more scope for learning anything more???? > > Is it that there is a shortage of cats??? > > What is the ratio of eggs laid to the number of Adults produced in the > wild?? > > Do we really believe that newcomers or researchers will collect so many > cats for whatever reason, that it will make an impact on the number of > butterflies around us ??? > > Is not habitat destruction and use of pesticides the main cause fr the > shortage of larval food plants, which wud cause a larger decrease in cat / > butterfly numbers than collection of a few cats fr life-cycle studies or > other related research.... > > Is it that cat rearing should be left to a few experts only or people who > hv published papers??? Did not the experts kill a few cats during their > various life cycle or other research studies before they became experts???? > > This could go on n on.... the idea of posting this is not to antigonise > anyone, I was just wondering if I was the only one who thinks this way.... > then probably I am different..... :-) > > TC, > Blaise > > > > > -- Enjoy
