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FEATURE: Japanese stag beetle boom spawns bug-smuggling surge.

Publication: Japan Weekly Monitor
Publication Date: 20-AUG-01 		Format: Online - approximately 945 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
TOKYO, Aug. 17 Kyodo

The Japanese children's pastime of catching stag beetles during the sultry summer months appears to be turning into outright ''beetlemania'' given the reported surge in overseas poaching of the six-legged black diamonds for sale in Japan.

Two Japanese men were arrested Aug. 1 at Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport shortly before boarding a flight for Osaka on suspicion of attempting to smuggle 271 pairs of indigenous stag beetles out of the country.

Also in the Himalayan kingdom last year, forest rangers in southern Nepal caught red-handed a Japanese Web designer and his two Nepali guides bagging stag beetles without permits. Violations involving stag beetles have also been reported in Taiwan, India and other countries.

According to Hiroshi Fujita, editor of Gekkan Mushi (Bug Monthly), stashing rare stag beetles in luggage was not unheard of in the past,...

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