Cassidinae wrote: ↑Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:46 pm In Saudi Arabia, they don't pay attention with catching and exporting insects. As in most Muslim countries, insects are considered something worthy of attention

I wish that would be the case in Indonesia.

I don’t know how big is your cup but even if you just pour 50ml that would be $1 per litre of vodka.
That is very cheap vodka?!

I think rotten banana serves as a food source and urine rotten shrimp/fish is of course source of minerals which males need to reproduce. But for some reason the effectiveness of the last are very a lot by the region it could be as you mention also the soil components as minerals are available else ...

I suppose it is Vespa tropica.
It is very common species in Thailand and Laos, they frequently visit bait traps.

I only have one specimen of agrias butterflies which I personally collected out of my bait trap in French Guiana.

It is Prepona narcissus narcissus male

Toronto area is basically the line where two subspecies are meeting and I never saw a hybrid between these two.
Perhaps if that occurs must be very rare or it simply isn’t happening.

It is Psocid (booklice)

As I have been impressed by the rare Agrias forms recently shown on the forum by Manfred, I have decided to create a topic dedicated to Agrias . Agrias is one of the most breathtaking butterfly genus and a very interesting genus to study due to the complexity of its local forms, natural hybridizati...

I have collected one specimen of C.dirce dirce in French Guiana and indeed this and other many species which are not interesting to collectors are only available when you go out to research yourself .

This is a very nice species and reminds me my youth times back in Poland where A.urticae was very common. I only saw one butterfly of this species near Kitchener, Ontario in 2015 and collected one 100km north of Perry Sound in 2021. Also I collected two specimens in Kananaskis (Rocky mountains) in A...

I collected in Canada 3 subspecies of C.pegala but none of them have yellow/orange area on the forewings. They are all simply brown with sometime females a little lighter in the area where eye spots are. C.pegala nephele is common in southern Ontario C.pegala ariane inhabits Rocky Mountains in Alber...

Cyrestis nivea tonkiniana
collected in eastern Laos.

The only one butterflies that resting with fully spread at 90° angle wings as far as I recall it.

Relax! It is carpet beetle

Perhaps this video (I haven't watched it) was made by the previous owner of Insectnet, who lives in California. Insectnet itself does not actively make videos, and the current owner lives in Europe. I am sure that Claude will see this thread and reply. Adam. Indeed the man behind camera is Clark Th...

Pupal color will not correlate with diapause with this species. Hold a strong light, like from a phone camera, to the head of the pupa and transilluminate. If you don’t see dark areas where the eyes are going to form after 15 days, it’s going to diapause. I'm not sure which end the eyes are, but th...

Greetings. I'm from Ontario Canada and I like to raise several Monarchs and Swallowtail every summer. It's interesting to observe and photograph them changing through their life stages. Keep in mind that Danaus plexippus and all Papilio species are protected in Ontario. So even if you don’t keep th...

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No matter how I try to resize a photo with my iphone, the actual size of the file remained the same. So I now email myself the photo and then it gives you the option of sending a small, medium, or large version of the file. I then save the image from my email and upload that. On the screen of my ph...

eurytides wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 11:07 pm However, I think I recently discovered a workaround.

What is it?