Hawkmoth Appeal
While we're on the subject of preserving wildlife, the Natural History Museum in London would like our help in raising £120,000 by 30 September to buy a rare collection of hawkmoths, almost 230,000 specimens collected by Jean-Marie Cadiou over nearly 40 years. This purchase would make NHM's collection of hawkmoths the most comprehensive and important in the world. Pity the school summer holidays are so close; fund-raising for NHM would have been a worthy educational project. Click the title link for more information or to donate.
posted by Unknown @ 3.7.08
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Must be all kinds of things you could do with a quarter million (US) moths.
Why would someone collect that many moths?
Truth IS stranger tan fiction.
Rabbit
Hi, Rabbit
Indeed! The trouble with collectors is that they need to complete their collections. It becomes an obsession. I can't believe there are 230,000 species of hawkmoth on the planet - we've got about 20 in the UK -, but a collector needs male and female, sports, colour variations and so on. And just when he thinks his collection is complete, something new pops up!
That's evolution for you....
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