Re: Guy around Green Swamp caught poaching 73 Fly Traps
Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 11:43 am
Glad the guy was caught. And make the fines and jail times bigger/longer.
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FlyTrap Hunter wrote:LoL. The Venusians brought the fly traps here in their space ships.I've heard the space ship theory on the origins of the flytraps for many years now so I'm not going to knock the guy for his new age beliefs (unless proven otherwise by evolutionary science) as silly as they may sound when spoken aloud.
I believe the video expressed that these poachers are very poor and desperate. That's why they steal and sale the fly traps.
We are not like that so we don't understand it.
Cpkid
It seems like they are trimming off dead leaves. But more than likely as . Sundewwolf said, they are actors. He would just be cutting and not knowing what he was doing. That video was likely produced by a wildlife officer or a group. Seems strange to cut the fly trap the way he does. But notice the guy says that looks like a 30 cent piece.
The Sarracenia were pretty sweet!
SundewWolf wrote:I watched this old VHS about flytrap poaching on YouTube about 2 weeks before this. Just actors (I think), but still was an interesting watch https://youtu.be/SYb8cPL8bgwAt 12.31 minute, no actor grabs plants just for show. Logical fallacy to think otherwise.
Big-Jack wrote:Dionaea groups with Droseraceae in phylogenetic studies, so if they were indeed extraterrestrial I would not expect them to have close genetic relatives of earthly origin as they do. I believe that was some sort of joke, as the intro seems to be a parody of The X-files (if you see the very beginning of the video they made it "the Plant files" with a similar logo).... but for this reason I also wondered if the entire production was staged or if they were recording real poachers later on.FlyTrap Hunter wrote:LoL. The Venusians brought the fly traps here in their space ships.I've heard the space ship theory on the origins of the flytraps for many years now so I'm not going to knock the guy for his new age beliefs (unless proven otherwise by evolutionary science) as silly as they may sound when spoken aloud.
I believe the video expressed that these poachers are very poor and desperate. That's why they steal and sale the fly traps.
We are not like that so we don't understand it.
Cpkid
It seems like they are trimming off dead leaves. But more than likely as . Sundewwolf said, they are actors. He would just be cutting and not knowing what he was doing. That video was likely produced by a wildlife officer or a group. Seems strange to cut the fly trap the way he does. But notice the guy says that looks like a 30 cent piece.
The Sarracenia were pretty sweet!