Posted on 07/15/2023 7:21:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some species are protected in Indonesia, but the black market for them persists. Collectors who pay thousands of dollars for a specimen say only they truly know the butterflies’ value. The programme Undercover Asia finds out what is at stake.
At the Tefuya pub in Tokyo, which has been around for over 40 years, owner Kiyomi Kakizawa serves up more than booze and food.
He also has about 5,000 dead butterfly specimens, all for sale.
Over the years, the pub has become a draw for butterfly enthusiasts and collectors, who gather to pore over maps, admire the multicoloured specimens from all over the world and add some to their collections through convivial auctions. “One day when I was 45, there was a butterfly that passed right in front of me,” a Tefuya patron shared. “When I saw it, I became obsessed with it. And I knew that this is what I’m going to do for the rest of my life.”
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Silence of the Butterflies.
Asians are f’ing weird. Japan takes the cake.
Wow, those really are beautiful. Works of art.
There’s an incredibly beautiful blue butterfly, highly endangered, that only eats one particular plant. Sone dude in San Fransisco decided to cultivate it and now has hundreds of them flying around his land. I hope he isn’t murdered by the lowlifes that otherwise infest that city.
When I see them dress up as cartoon characters, I wonder about their future. And ours.
When I see them dress up as cartoon characters, I wonder about their future. And ours.
It is beyond pathetic that someone's whole life amounts to nothing more substantative than chasing butterflies.
Leave these beautiful creatures alone. I protected a female Cecropeia moth for four days while she was laying eggs on her underside. Then she apparently flew away to put them on a food source.
Loved it!
They are truly God’s creatures for us to admire and protect.
“When I see them dress up as cartoon characters, I wonder about their future. And ours.”
Finland is giving them a run for their money. Hobby horse competition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd5-qspfKtc
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