Butterflies from Minas Gerais, Brasil

[jmg]

Nice pictures !

Not far from Belo Horizonte, in Pitangui (100 kilometers West of BH), these butterflies of Minas Gerais :

www.lepido-france.fr/lepidopteres-du-minas-gerais/

and some butterflies from the Serra do Mar (SP) :

www.lepido-france.fr/rhopaloceres-de-la-mata-atlantica/

[Paul K]

Beautiful, fresh female and great video too.
Makes me want to go to South America for a change.
Thanks for sharing Jan.

Paul

[Paul K]

I like your father’s garden!
Are you planing to visit Brasil anytime soon?
Certainly I would, pity no collecting there

[nomad]

Apr 11, 2018 15:22:14 GMT Paul K said:

Certainly I would, pity no collecting there

Nice images. Is there a total ban on butterfly collecting in Brazil? I have seen quite a few recently captured specimens from that country including very rare examples, at fairs, dealers lists etc?

[wollastoni]

Collecting is forbidden (without permit).
In reality, foreign collectors would be put to jail, local collectors do collect and sell what they want.

Anyway Brazilian governments do all what they can to destroy their nature, Brazil will soon become a new Sahara...

People who wants to study and collect lepidoptera in South America should better go to French Guyana where the forest is protected and insect collecting promoted as eco-tourism.