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Butterfly Domain specializes in acrylic butterfly flights and beautifully mounted Potomac (Riker style) scientific mounts. All scientific mount butterflies are A1 quality unless otherwise specified. Acrylic flight specimens will usually not have antennae or the abdomen. They break off inside the case in time. Some butterflies hold toxins in their abdomens that will degrade the wings if not removed.
We obtain our butterflies from suppliers that support rainforest farming. Papua, New Guinea is a great example. They have a government sponsored program to sustain villages and the wild butterfly population by providing butterfly specimens for collectors. Before programs such as this were in place, the large base of butterfly collectors around the world were supplied by simply capturing wild butterflies. This was unsuccessful in providing the natives with a sustaining income. It was devastating to certain very desirable wild species. Natives were forced to sell their irreplaceable land to logging or cattle companies to support themselves and their families. Once cut, rainforest land is lost forever. We must work to preserve it, it holds so many undiscovered secrets.
Butterfly farming has been an extremely successful plan. Farmers increase the forest vegetation by planting trees and vines on which wild butterflies like to lay their eggs. Once their eggs are laid, the farmers collect the leaves and put them inside a hatchery, where they are protected. A large percentage of these eggs would never hatch if left in the wild. The caterpillar hatches, munches away on the protected vine and turns into a chrysalis. When they emerge from the chrysalis, some are collected for sale. Usually 30% are released into the rainforest.
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