Quote Originally Posted by janp View Post
Collecting and farming permit renewals in Palawan these days have become even more of a headache than previously. Export permits also proved to be a great problem already at an early stage. Even a simple sideline business like trading host plant seeds turned sour the last couple of years as even registered letters with seeds were stolen by the Philippine postal service repeatedly…. Nobody can prosper under such conditions! I am now moving all my butterfly farming activities to southern EU.

I hope to be more active in this nice forum in the time to come!

Welcome on board, Jan. And nice to have "met" you again. You did mention to me the last time that you were considering setting up a similar facility in Pakistan?

I'm surprised to hear that the postal service in Philippines has deteriorated so badly that even seeds are stolen! At least I got the package that you sent to me containing the A. foveolata and A. philippinensis. Unfortunately, I did not manage to germinate either one.

How are the A. ringens that I sent you doing?

Glad to have you here and to learn from your experiences with host plants and breeding butterflies.