Butterflies are God's beautiful creation. Please stop butterfly hunting! It's downright cruel! Butterfly Hunters catch butterflies with big butterfly nets then kill the butterfly while its trapped inside the net! Afterwards, butterflies are stored for collection or framed in picture frames! Here's a clip on this cruel technique!
Collecting, killing and storing specimens. After netting a butterfly in an aerial net, butterfly hunters kill by pinching its thorax (middle body segment) between your thumb and forefinger. This technique takes some practice to learn the proper pressure, but it will quickly stun the specimen and prevent it from damaging itself. With its wings over its back, the specimen can then be slipped into an envelope or a paper triangle or envelope. Specimens can be kept in this condition indefinitely in a tight-fitting box with moth balls or other insecticide, until they are “relaxed” for mounting. Alternatively, freshly collected specimens can be stored in a plastic bag in a freezer until they are mounted, eliminating the need to “relax” the specimen before mounting.
Pure cruelty! Leave our beautiful creatures of nature alone!!! Stop butterfly hunting now!!
