[Pollinator] Smithsonian

[Peter Bernhardt]

Yes, I would find it very disturbing if they are real.  Remember, there was
a time you could walk into the gift shops of many museums and find all
sorts of arthropods embedded in resin.  A lucite block cut into a little
coffin shape with a scorpion inside (part of a key chain) was awfully
popular.  in Beijing, a few years back, I found such blocks containing the
life cycle of the silk moth.  Like Liz, though, I think the butterflies in
the snow globe are fakes.    It's best to find out before formal complaints
are made.

Peter


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Liz Day <lizday44 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
>  With the precipitous decline in the Monarch population, does it bother
>> anyone else that the Smithsonian is selling snow globes with Monarchs in
>> them (even with the mention of their pollinator garden)? Or am I being
>> overly sensitive?
>>
>> <http://www.smithsonianstore.com/monarch-butterfly-
>> snowglobe-80334.html?&wtl=s&wtl1=monarch%20snow%20globe>ht
>> tp://www.smithsonianstore.com/monarch-butterfly-snowglobe-
>> 80334.html?&wtl=s&wtl1=monarch%20snow%20globe
>>
>
> I'm not sure those are real monarchs, they seem possibly plastic resin.  ?
> Liz
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