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kevinkk · by kevinkk » Mon Jun 16, 2025 10:52 pm

These are euryalus x cecropia larva, they've been feeding outside since May 25.
Now I wish I had the respective animals to compare, these seem to look more bluish than pure euryalus,
it'll be interesting to see how they develop, it just occurred to me to take pictures today..
Preferred ceanothus over cherry though, the larva split 60% for ceanothus and the rest for cherry

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wollastoni · by wollastoni » Mon Jun 16, 2025 9:06 am

mokky wrote: Sun Jun 01, 2025 9:27 am Wow, I would like to know which species you collected there. I am interested in this lovely Lycaenidae. If you know anyone who shares same passion as me, please introduce those friednds to me!

I will send you my friends' contact by PM. He will get my Laotian specimens in end-September only as we will meet in Juvisy fair.

bobw · by bobw » Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:29 am

Dave, I believe this new female should be S. syntyche mars.

wollastoni · by wollastoni » Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:09 am

Our friend Jean-Marc (JMG) has spent great time there too. He posted several pictures of his trip on the ALF website : https://www.lepidofrance.fr/quelques-pa ... re-partie/

wollastoni · by wollastoni » Mon Jun 16, 2025 7:57 am

Wonderful beasts ! Thanks a lot for sharing, Dave !

Oger · by Oger » Sun Jun 15, 2025 7:40 pm

Ah i understand, thanks alot for the quick answer

daveuk · by daveuk » Sun Jun 15, 2025 6:53 pm

Recently acquired female from Peru.
(Presumably S. marthasia form)

livingplanet3 · by livingplanet3 » Sun Jun 15, 2025 6:06 pm

Oger wrote: Sun Jun 15, 2025 5:28 pm Hello,

Today when i was outside i noticed these very small insects? They either fell from the sky or blew from somewhere, like small flakes. There are problably hundreds of them, all dead, where i live in middle of Sweden. Any idea of what they are? They are roughly 1-2mm in size.

These insects appear to have been killed by an entomopathogenic fungus, which are parasitic fungi that only infect insects. This may simply be a natural occurrence, although some of these fungi are used agriculturally as biological control agents against crop pests such as thrips, aphids, and whiteflies.

Oger · by Oger » Sun Jun 15, 2025 5:28 pm

Hello,

Today when i was outside i noticed these very small insects? They either fell from the sky or blew from somewhere, like small flakes. There are problably hundreds of them, all dead, where i live in middle of Sweden. Any idea of what they are? They are roughly 1-2mm in size.

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Shabadoo · by Shabadoo » Sun Jun 15, 2025 4:20 pm

Seeing in decent numbers on front porch. Much lesser extent in attached garage. Have seen them in the past just not in larger numbers I’m seeing this year

Chuck · by Chuck » Sat Jun 14, 2025 3:49 pm

adamcotton wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2025 7:47 pm

It is possible that something (dog or other animal) pee'd on the asphalt, and the Tiger was responding to that.

Adam.

I doubt it. Mainly because it first landed at a rusty puddle and was sucking from that. And later landed on goose poop where it was captured. But mainly because it kept flying around the asphalt, would touch it, and fly off just to try again. This says to me it looked good but didn’t taste good.

I’ve seen them do this with Purple Crownvetch in a field of milkweed. The flowers of both are the same color. So they’ll land on the crownvetch and quickly jump off, and keep trying until they happen to land on a milkweed.

mothman55 · by mothman55 » Sat Jun 14, 2025 1:48 pm

Absolutely beautiful!!!

eurytides · by eurytides » Sat Jun 14, 2025 12:13 am

I do think he is knowledgeable. He is pretty active on FB and I think that’s where he gets a lot of customers. Lots of newbies on FB too.

adamcotton · by adamcotton » Fri Jun 13, 2025 7:47 pm

Chuck wrote: Fri Jun 13, 2025 4:03 pm An oddly interesting observation:

A "spring form" male was flying around looking for a place to puddle, on an old steel barge. He kept returning to what looked like a pile of racoon poop, but isn't- it's a random pile of 100 year old asphalt that looks like poo.

I wonder- are they using vision to find puddling resources? I always assumed that it's scent. That said, a puddle group attracts others, and that's clearly visual.

It is possible that something (dog or other animal) pee'd on the asphalt, and the Tiger was responding to that.

Butterflies clearly do use visual cues for many things too and they are often attracted to particular coloured objects. Once, in E Laos, I saw multiple butterflies investigating a discarded can, which was shiny pale blue.

Adam.

Chuck · by Chuck » Fri Jun 13, 2025 4:09 pm

Meanwhile, a regular update on Finger Lakes region of NY: it has been horrible weather, the worst in my memory. Lots of rain- in fact, we are on the 28th straight weekend with precipitation. And very, very cold- many days topping out 60F/16C when it should be 74F/23C. And windy, and cloudy. Tigers have been observed on the few warmer, sunnier days, but for the most part, nothing.

I went to Huntsville AL for a few days. Found Tigers nectaring on Turtlehead and Thistle but only up in the hills, none in the valleys. Couple interesting notes to record, (1) they are smaller than the Tigers in KY, and (2) many have the ventral side HW black line that separates black/yellow as straight-ish, like P solstitius and canadensis.

Chuck · by Chuck » Fri Jun 13, 2025 4:03 pm

An oddly interesting observation:

A "spring form" male was flying around looking for a place to puddle, on an old steel barge. He kept returning to what looked like a pile of racoon poop, but isn't- it's a random pile of 100 year old asphalt that looks like poo.

I wonder- are they using vision to find puddling resources? I always assumed that it's scent. That said, a puddle group attracts others, and that's clearly visual.

Chuck · by Chuck » Fri Jun 13, 2025 10:30 am

Don’t delete anything.

A refund is not a completed transaction. It’s a failed supplier unable to perform.

Mookie · by Mookie » Fri Jun 13, 2025 6:10 am

He got me recently too. $40 for eggs he never sent, with periodic lame excuses. I finally went nuclear and posted about him on this forum and fb and reddit, and suddenly he refunded me. With a note telling me to "Delete the posts as you have been refunded". I'm happy disclose that he finally paid me, but only after I exposed him.

wollastoni · by wollastoni » Thu Jun 12, 2025 4:47 pm

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