[Pollinator] Smithsonian

[Lincoln Brower]

Definitely artificial monarchs in the snow globe.  I see no problems and it may get some folks interested.   My only comment  is that Buddleias do not appreciate being snowed upon.

Lincoln Brower.

On Aug 19, 2014, at 5:22 PM, Peter Bernhardt wrote:

> 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>http://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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Professor Lincoln P. Brower
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Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA 24595
(and Distinguished Service Professor of Zoology Emeritus, University of Florida)
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