Africa's Largest Butterfly Collection Faces Uncertain Future

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  • @user-ys2ko2jt4y
    @user-ys2ko2jt4y 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +71

    I hope the lepidopterists aren’t killing the butterflies just to frame them.

    • @Z3N_P1AYZ
      @Z3N_P1AYZ 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

      thats what i was wondering... he got soooo many. noway he found them all dead... he's killing them to frame them? im confused by this

    • @knuclear200x
      @knuclear200x 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      That's ok. Butterflies don't scream 😈

    • @user-ys2ko2jt4y
      @user-ys2ko2jt4y 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@knuclear200x Many of the fish that humans hunt don't make a scream or cry that we can hear but they still feel pain as they have nociceptors connected to a brain like pigs, cows, chickens, dogs and cats.

    • @knuclear200x
      @knuclear200x 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @user-ys2ko2jt4y good, we can eat butterflies too

    • @user-ys2ko2jt4y
      @user-ys2ko2jt4y 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@knuclear200x If you want to hurt butterflies when there’s plants to eat, I guess that’s your morals.

  • @stephanieu.
    @stephanieu. 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    Putting them in a museum would be a good place for them.

  • @renecarballo5831
    @renecarballo5831 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +32

    Donate them to HIGH SCHOOLS and MIDDLE SCHOOLS. I major in Entomology (Insect Biology) at my University because my High School Biology teacher had an insect collection in her classroom. If it wasn't for that insect collection I would had never found my passion for Entomology.

    • @noobyxd3219
      @noobyxd3219 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

      whatever you say bug boy

    • @ka342
      @ka342 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Very cute love how something so simple helped you choose your life path how awesome

    • @ka342
      @ka342 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@noobyxd3219says a cranky racoon boy😂

    • @jimb.7523
      @jimb.7523 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I remember wanting to be an entomologist when I was a kid. I love insects (well, most species anyway).

  • @Mike__B
    @Mike__B 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

    So why again does it face an uncertain future? Because he *IS* going to die in the future and no one is yet named to take it?

  • @journeymansmitty8283
    @journeymansmitty8283 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    The entire collection is legendary I'm pretty sure he has butterflies that never even seen😮

    • @ao2415
      @ao2415 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No you can Google em all

  • @stacyhumphrey4947
    @stacyhumphrey4947 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    It’s kind of an oxymoron that he’s worried about the population of butterflies yet he has an entire basement full of dead ones. For the more I thought that title said ..oh hahahaa,
    never mind I just figured out my own question. I’m not even gonna tell you what I thought. I am embarrassed of myself lol happy new year everyone.

  • @mondop27
    @mondop27 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Put these frame butterflies in museums cause there is not many that exist now some might be extinct , need to share to the world in museums cause we probably might not see them anymore .

  • @Cheetahprint85
    @Cheetahprint85 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    If I was rich, I would buy his collection and build a huge atrium and let visitors come see the beauty. 🦋 ❤

  • @Catherine______
    @Catherine______ 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    100 or so years from now when humanity has demolished the eco system this collection will be worth something lol

  • @TheLucarioMaster-uw4fb
    @TheLucarioMaster-uw4fb 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Yeah I think we should protect the beauty of nature

  • @lauriefaithprescott
    @lauriefaithprescott 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Id say a museum should take them after his passing

  • @srideout91
    @srideout91 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    My ex friend did this. And they do not kill them humanely.

  • @julieunderwood525
    @julieunderwood525 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Beautiful ❤❤

  • @MHerbert351
    @MHerbert351 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I have saved a few butterfly’s lately 💪

  • @hivemistressherguineapigfa8563
    @hivemistressherguineapigfa8563 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Poor butterflies🥺🦋

  • @doctordl7757
    @doctordl7757 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Smh the title is disgusting, where in Africa?!

    • @lavabite2245
      @lavabite2245 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      They said all over???

    • @doctordl7757
      @doctordl7757 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @lavabite2245 But where is the museum?

  • @melissagrant4178
    @melissagrant4178 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Today is the wrost New Year Day ever for me

    • @stacyhumphrey4947
      @stacyhumphrey4947 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Why????❤ what happened ALREADY!! it’s only noon honey. Well, at least where I am. Talk to us.

    • @melissagrant4178
      @melissagrant4178 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      My bike was stolen

    • @jimb.7523
      @jimb.7523 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I mean, it could be worse. You could've been hit by a truck while out celebrating New Years in New Orleans, so there's that.

  • @AnnwambuiMaina254
    @AnnwambuiMaina254 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Ati Kenya 🇰🇪 😮😮😮😮😮😮

  • @caesar7734
    @caesar7734 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    He is partially responsible for their endangerment

  • @HappyComfort
    @HappyComfort 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    A well established museum. 🤔🙂👍🌷

  • @theguildofthetranquilpine5360
    @theguildofthetranquilpine5360 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Stop speciesism

  • @apokaa
    @apokaa 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Buffalo bill

  • @ChristIsKing4ever-l9w
    @ChristIsKing4ever-l9w 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    Leave butterflies alone. They aren't items to collect.

    • @CASH-THE-NERD
      @CASH-THE-NERD 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      It’s called “science”, and I’m sure he has friends in labs that give him their dead butterflies.

  • @aaok4life697
    @aaok4life697 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    4 million?! Sounds like he's more of a threat to the future of the species than climate change

  • @MaMama-S3D
    @MaMama-S3D 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    '''at his estate in Kenya'' colonialism is still happening and they keep stealing everything african, even insects ! Poor butterflies, murdered for their beauty !

  • @shemdickson4445
    @shemdickson4445 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    TO THOSE SPECIALTY NEWSCASTERS, WHAT “A COLORFUL ‘BUTTERFLY SERIES [STEVE COLLINS] AND Y’ALL, ‘LATEST INSIDE EDITION VIEWERS, ‘A HEAVENLY’ BLESSING!!” 🦋🦋

  • @lavabite2245
    @lavabite2245 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Okay my comment deleted itself and I’m kind of mad but I’ll do a tldr of it. Collecting butterflies is for research (for entomologists). Collecting every butterfly you catch is useful because you can learn different phenotypes (looks) of the same species because the same species can have different looks and can be thought to be different species but can turn out to be the same (looking at the genitals under a microscope is the best way to tell). Collecting each butterfly you find also counterintuitively saves them since if you get all without bias you can estimate the wild population in a region and if it’s low it could be marked as endangered or critically endangered if there wasn’t enough data about them before and therefore ban or restrict the collecting of them. He is a lepidopterist which is an entomologist which specializes in Lepidoptera which is butterflies and moths. His collecting is for research while lots of other people collect to sell pretty butterflies. By making them marked as endangered or critically endangered it would slow down the trade of the species (though the black market butterfly trade is still pretty big)
    Edit: You can also find new species.
    Edit 2: Also if a species goes extinct having a preserved specimen is always nice

  • @Transforsen
    @Transforsen 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Give me some batter and peanut oil and I'll know what to do with your butterfly collection.

  • @michellechavez8814
    @michellechavez8814 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Leave em alone. Poor things

    • @samsinci7418
      @samsinci7418 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Womp womp bro, it’s a butterfly 🦋

  • @tristanjohnson456
    @tristanjohnson456 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Give them to the locals! Africa has rich museums they love to preserve their cultures and heritage. 😂😂😂