A butterfly catcher on the Indonesian island of Bachan is sorting out butterfly specimens, which will be sold in Bali. There, the butterflies will be exported across Asia and then to collectors around the world.
It's much more than just one
Risking your life to hunt butterflies,
Buy at a low price, sell at a high price,
Re-circulate simple stories around the world.
The dazzlingly beautiful 88-turbid butterfly, whose wings present a representative "88" pattern.
Photograph by JOEL SARTORE
Around rare butterfly species,
Deep in the remote jungles of Indonesia,
A lot of things are intertwined,
It seems ridiculous but it really happens:
You will find that
Near the Butterfly Conservation Park,
But next to the "black market of death" of butterflies;
Was once the right-hand man of a famous entomologist,
But he transformed into a famous local butterfly hunter;
The Indonesian government has built a butterfly protection park,
But it destroys the family consummation of the butterfly hunter;
And the skilled butterfly hunter,
But he began to cry,
Although he kills butterflies, no one loves butterflies more than he does!?
The green bird wing butterfly, the largest butterfly in Australia, has a wingspan of up to 20 cm for females.
Photo by NICOLE DUPLAIX
Photo by EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA
A Goliath bird-winged butterfly hatches in the kitchen of a hotel in West Papua, Indonesia. Hatched butterflies are killed early to preserve their wings.
The total number of recorded butterflies worldwide is 17,000 species,
And the internationally protected butterfly,
Mostly distributed in Southeast Asia,
Such as Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and other countries.
The inlaid specimens of the wings of the male tropical blue glitter butterfly are still glittering.
Photo by CARY WOLINSKY
On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi,
The market for the capture of rare butterflies floods.
The butterfly catcher is in the middle of butterflies and collectors.
Indonesian butterfly catcher Jasmin Zanuddin,
I've been stuck with butterflies all my life.
He was an assistant to the Asian lepidopteran scholar Nishiyama Hodanori.
And in a few decades,
establishment of networks of messengers, smugglers and catchers,
Bringing the parties together,
Butterflies are then delivered to collectors around the world.
The butterfly catcher, Baco Baggis, trekked thousands of kilometers from December to March to track butterflies. In remote Indonesian jungles, he catches mysterious bird-winged butterflies, sometimes finding only one or two in a week.
As early as The Generation of Justin's Father,
The local butterfly catch begins,
He catches all the butterflies in his neighborhood,
Sold to foreigners visiting the island.
It didn't take long,
Foreigners know more about local butterflies than they do.
A zebra butterfly perches on white petals.
As the butterfly trade intensified, the Bandy Mulen Ecotourism Park was established in the hope of solving some of the problems of butterfly conservation, while the establishment of the eco-park also occupied Jasmin's living space, the family was forced to move away from his former home, and the Indonesian government took away his home.
By the 1980s,
Butterfly expert Nishiyama Hodanori came to the village,
And here for more than 20 years,
Each time, He hired Jasmin as an assistant on a deep mountain expedition.
Jasmin followed him into the butterfly world,
And gradually became familiar with everything about butterflies,
thereafter
Jasmine from the biologist's assistant,
Officially became a very skilled butterfly catcher.
Scholar Assistant→ Butterfly,
Jasmin's "transformation" is simply surprising.
But naturally,
Butterflies are an important means of livelihood for locals.
In addition, Jasmin hired a team of butterfly catchers,
They are the bottom link in the butterfly market.
Today's global butterfly black market,
Estimates are as high as hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
A blue-tailed kingfisher butterfly from the very beginning,
Finally traded to collectors,
The price is multiplied ten thousand times.
A young mother on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi sorts out her harvest. It is the closest to the source of the catch, and the butterfly trade is a means of livelihood. Families often tend to farm in one season and catch butterflies in the other. Each specimen may cost them a penny or two.
The blue-tailed kingfisher only lives at certain altitudes,
There are steep rocks covered with thin wet mud,
Each climb triggers a small mudslide,
The road is very difficult.
The catcher sells the butterfly to Jasmine for a few cents a piece,
Jasmin then to Bandy Mullen's market,
Or selling goods to a giant in the butterfly business in Jakarta,
The next floor is sold into the hands of international buyers.
Wait until the last buyer of the blue-tailed butterfly,
When it is embedded in the presenter,
The price may have soared to nearly a hundred or even thousands of dollars.
If it is a rarer internationally protected variety,
Can sell sensational astronomical numbers.
At the annual Tokyo Insect Collection, collectors and traders buy and sell butterfly specimens from Africa, Asia, the Americas and elsewhere in the globe. This bazaar has no promotional website, but it still attracts a large number of enthusiasts. The international market for butterflies, like the elves themselves, is quiet and elusive.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2007,
Convicted the Japanese Kojima Kuyoshi in Los Angeles,
He calls himself "the world's largest butterfly smuggler."
By 2017,
British officials have also begun to convict them for catching butterflies.
The Hawaiian Red Butterfly is one of only two native butterfly species in Hawaii, with a close-up of its wings.
Photo by CHRIS JOHNS
The American blue butterfly hides small dots of white and orange under its wings.
Photographed by DARLYNE A. MURAWSKI
Ironically,
The "Bandy Mullen" market is biased towards buying and selling,
Bandy Murun Ecotourism Park is more conservation-oriented;
The two are very different but connected in distance,
Legal trading areas and black markets are intertwined,
Jasmin pointed out on the spot at the stall,
Half of the butterflies are illegally traded species.
The proud local blue-robed green butterfly's billboard towers at the entrance to Bandy Mullen Ecotourism Park, but it is in tatters.
In the underground caves of the ecological park,
Decorated with colorful and beautiful creatures,
But none of them are really alive.
Illegal transactions only occur outside the eco-park,
The government has also chosen to turn a blind eye.
A butterfly merchant in West Papua used white cloth and bright lights as traps to attract moths at the request of a Japanese collector. He employs villagers to raise butterflies and act as guides, providing jobs that allow butterflies to make an important contribution to the local economy, but can also jeopardize conservation efforts.
A secluded old house deep in the ecological park,
It's Jasmin's former home,
When reminded of catching harm to butterflies,
Jasmine was furious —
What makes him angry is this—
The government took away his home,
He wants to reclaim his power.
As long as there is a forest, there will actually be butterflies,
But they are "taking away the forest,
Habitat destruction will really destroy butterflies.
Bright out of lightness: the pupae of the bird-winged butterfly– the final stage of metamorphosis into a butterfly, feathering into winged adults – is hue-changing in order to simulate the vegetation around the pupae. These are native species of Cambodia.
Photo by ROBERT CLARK
Jasmin's home is full of "butterflies."
Butterflies are woven into his tablecloth,
Painted on ornaments,
He treasures the works signed by Mr. Nishiyama,
Even the Japanese and English versions that he couldn't understand,
He is still carefully cared for.
Colorful African daisies are set against a North American butterfly butterfly.
The typical Oriental Tiger Butterfly is either all black or all yellow, and this is a hermaphroditic butterfly – the yellow side is male on one side and the female on the black side.
Photograph by JAMES K. ADAMS
Jasmine's eyes were moist, and he said:
"Actually, no one loves Kupcupo (butterfly) more than I do."
Scientists try to replicate the four-dimensional brilliance of the blue-tailed kingfisher butterfly,
The physical mechanism of its structural color has been clearly defined,
But there are still challenges in imitating the structure of natural photons,
Need to combine several layer precipitation techniques,
in order to simulate the mixed color effect of its wings.
The exquisite natural displays attract collectors to the Parisian herbarium "Dai Basil", which was founded in 1831. The store was built around the time of the rise of butterfly collections in Europe, and lepidopterans began searching for specimens around the world. Today, butterfly collecting is particularly popular in Japan.
Maybe people's fanatical fascination with butterflies,
It is a bigger problem than technical simulation.
Butterflies exist between the real and the illusory,
Floating on the edge of the mortal dust gauze cover.
They're amazing,
It is out of reach at birth and empty of regrets after death.
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