20 June 2025: The last "Spring Form" observed was found fresh and crushed by a car tire in a popular hamburger joint parking lot. Amazing that the Tigers can be so focused on puddling that they can be run over.

Now on to the MST (P. solstitius) season...

May and June in the Finger Lakes region of ...

That is spectacular.

I wonder if this relatively common morph in your area is environmental or genetic? Perlman & Perlman demonstrated form fletcheri and others to be environmentally induced; Scriber wrote that such genetic changes are inheritable. I wonder if your "fletcheri" produce more ...

Papilio multicaudata grandiosus Austin and Emmel, 1998 is the subspecies from Chiapas, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Type Locality. MEXICO: Chiapas; Ochuc.
It is not a form of Papilio multicaudata multicaudata .

Adam.


Since you brought it up- the multicaudata I caught in southern Arizona look a ...

basically good article... fecal pellets of the caterpillars were described as the eggs of the caterpillars.


When I read/ see something like this, the entire article must be considered suspect and discredited. While one reader may catch such a fundamental error, how does one know what else is ...

This differentiation in wing size is common, and I see it most often in Speyeria.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don’t delete anything.

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

That guy is a thorn in the side of entomologists. Some day he’s going to get himself in trouble.

Now that’s talent

You can’t make this up.


https://13wham.com/news/offbeat/belgian ... in-2-weeks

First thing is to let everyone know where you can go (including elevation, remote areas, etc.) and then find an appropriate partner that could use your help. What equipment do you have? Who is paying your costs? Expanding on that here would be a start.

For example, I have a project in NY/PA/MA/NH ...

vabrou : What's the point of digging up a six-month-old post? None of your posts have been moderated recently. I'm sick of this ridiculous victimization.
We have fairly simple rules to follow. Everyone can make a mistake, the post is edited, there's no need to whine about it for months like a ...

That was weird. I kind of expected this a long time ago. Apparently there is some issue the rest of us, or at least I am unaware of.
Vernon made at least one post after the November scolding, which was nice of him to make,I guess it didn't last.


The discussions on what gets edited, and personal ...

Where in Looville? I was there all last week- downtown- and didn’t hear a thing.

My cicadas all went to Cornell recently so I have nothing to reference for comparison. Did you try iNaturalist?

I’d vote no on the freezer. While true that last winter the outdoor temp was lower than the freezer, and antiopa comes out on sunny days in March, what’s the loss rate in nature? It’s probably high.

Plus there are localized temperature tolerance in all animals. Inuits play ball when I would ...

Late May 02 through today May 09 was mostly overcast and cool with rain every day for eight days. There were two days with 3 hour periods of sun. Zero Tigers spotted. Shame too, the Lilacs are blooming in concert with the typical emergence.

The temperature and duration tolerated, and with what effect, depends on the moth species. Attacus atlas does not like to be refrigerated AMHIK. I suspect that the more northern Saturnids would be more tolerant, and the Canadian May/ June species, which may endure frost anyway. <- bad grammar but ...

Thanks Olivier. Keep our fingers crossed. AI can of course click that box, but should make it a bit harder now.

I wonder if the hosting company can be asked to limit traffic (ie block masses of DoS messages).