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Message: <blockquote data-quote="harry eales" data-source="post: 1622172" data-attributes="member: 3028">Hello HD,You have my sympathy. After 50 years of recording in Northumberland and spending not an inconsiderable amount of money in persuit of my hobby, I find it sickening that unthinking idiots can do such things.Major conservation organisations don't help either, take the Large Copper and Large Blue. The indigenous races are extinct and no foreign sub species will ever replace them. Yet both English Nature, now Natural England and Butterfly Conservation have actively supported these introductions.Introductions are by no means new, during the late 1800's the Map Butterfly was introduced into the Forest of Dean. A very well known insect collector of the time a certain A.B.Farne took exception to this, and personally set out to exterminate every butterfly of that species he could find. Extreme? Perhaps.The availability of larvae and pupae of rare British migrant butterflies at a fairly cheap price does nothing to disuade people from releasing them into the wild.This is what infuriates me, how can any rare migrant species found here be considered a genuine migrant now releases are being made, and who decides which are genuine records or not?Harry</blockquote>