Insect catching in Sri Lanka

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guest: Buzman, 25.01.2010 14:32

Dear colleagues! If any of you or your friends collected insects in Sri Lanka, please share your experience and valuable tips. First of all, I would like to know how tightly the law controls the catching and export of insects there and what real danger can lie in wait at customs when exporting material. I would also like to hear your opinion on the severity of the malaria threat in Sri Lanka. I am very grateful in advance for any advice or opinion.

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26.01.2010 14:31, Victor Gazanchidis

It is forbidden to catch them, and it is also forbidden to take them out. If you really want to, you should do this: you agree with the guide about where you want to go, he finds interesting places for fishing and arranges with some respected local resident, for example, the owner of a plantation, etc., to accompany you. Thus, the locals consider you guests and will not sell you to the first policeman who comes along.
I strongly advise against fishing without all this, especially in the area of visibility of aborigines.
True all this costs a pretty penny

Malaria seems to have been defeated there. I went there with my children, no one got vaccinated, everything went OK. But the blood-sucking leeches in the Sinharaja forest are eating you like mosquitoes in the suburbs. I advise you to have an ointment with you.

This post was edited by vicgrr - 26.01.2010 14: 56

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