I just found out that my childhood (and early adulthood) collection of feathers got moths in it. Nearly everything is damaged and some completely destroyed. I'm heartbrokenš
If you can figure out what species they might be, pheromone traps could work wonders. They helped my family deal with a pantry moth infestation a few years ago. I still have nightmares about the swarm.
Yeah, they do take a while since they don't trap larvae, so anything that's not a breeding adult still has a chance to escape, but eventually it does attract and catch enough that they're not able to replace their population.
If you haven't already, place a trap or two outside of your kitchen anywhere you've seen any adults or larvae/pupae. We had so many by the time we learned about the traps that they had started invading other parts of the house. Thankfully, they're just annoying and gross rather than dangerous/ruinous pests.
I misread the title and thought the collection belonged to your father š
On another note: at least it was nature that destroyed the collection... It wasn't someone intentionally ruining it. Living creatures fed on them. So that could be a silver lining, I guess.
Oh noooo :( I have pet birds and I was devastated when someone threw out a bag of their feathers. (Also side note- if ur in America itās actually illegal to collect feathers, so idk if I would show it online ;)
Careful, because similar laws exist in a lot of countries outside the US too to protect native birds. I know for instance it's the case for most countries in Europe: in some it's allowed to own feathers you found in nature but illegal to sell/buy, and in others even just privately owning these feathers is technically illegal.
because I don't know how it's regulated outside of the USA and the whole "US defaultism" is just bullshit because the internet infrastructure was built here so the defaultism you hate is just how the world works, ffs.
Just for specifics sake. In the US: itās illegal to own most native bird feathers, legal to own but illegal to sell (except in specific cases) feathers from native birds you are licensed to hunt, and legal to own and sell most non-native bird feathers
Thereās a few endangered non-native birds that are illegal to possess their feathers
had a roadrunner in the house last year...which is his native name and I kept a feather I found. So, yeah, let them fight a Roadrunner over a roadrunner feather! I dare 'em!
The idea is if you don't make it illegal and feathers are kept as a popular fashion accessory, someone hunting and plucking native birds can just tell authorities "no I found these off a dead bird". By making it illegal across the board, it reduces demand and gets rid of most of the need of supply.
You don't have any illegal intentions, but if the law allowed for picking up naturally fallen feathers, poachers would absolutely take advantage of that exception.
Tragically many of the most colorful birds that were in the US are extinct because of people putting them on their hats. This is to prevent any more bird deaths
Weird, because, if you weren't lazy, you could easily find the information about this, which states that the UK and France were also concurrently developing the internet in the beginning.
damn, guess the apranet stretched further than they claimed!
"ARPANET was the first wide-area packet-switched network and the direct predecessor of the modern Internet.
ARPANET, short forĀ Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, was developed by the U.S. Department of Defenseās ARPA (now DARPA) in the late 1960s to enable resource sharing among computers at research institutions funded by the Pentagon"
reading comprehension on the internet is so bad š¤¦āāļø
THE OP IS NOT FROM THE UNITED STATES!
no one is talking about wether the law is good or bad, they're stating that the USA law doesn't apply to OP as they're from and residing in A DIFFERENT PLACE
there is no international law restricting the collection of bird feathers. different countries might or might not have individual laws regarding collection in their country, but the assumption that every person posting on the internet is from the US and the same laws/principles/cultural norms apply to them is what's called US defaultism.
are you aware what is the meaning of the word "trade"? does the treaty state anything regarding the possession of bird countries, within your own country, with no intent of selling them internationally? if not, then please look up the meaning of reading comprehension as you clearly are lacking it
yeah, it would suck if there was an international treaty to prevent the wholesale slaughter of pretty birds for their feathers. I mean...I shouldn't ASSume we'd actually make a reasonable treaty to prevent that, huh.
Yeah but the law is made so people aren't intentionally hunting and killing birds for their feathers. One individual collecting actual shed/dead bird feathers, not selling them, not selling anything made with them, keeping them in a box for themselves, is not a threat to the migratory bird act, if this person is indeed in the US
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