RIP Mr.Smith Wow 660 species in small, high altitude country. In the whole Canada we have here just close to 300 species! I just checked again and it’s not that small country, just because it is sandwiched between India and China looks so on the maps. Also includes almost all zones of south slop of ...

In some of my drawers I haven’t change them since I started using these in 2015-16. They are pale yellow but so far no pests, I’m not sure if they still do work or I have no pest in my room.

I usually dream of all kind of butterflies and moths but many times huge moths similar to Alcides species but with the wingspan of 40-50cm. And the sad thing is I never have net with me and try to catch them with my hands or hat, the scenery is usually like in “Avatar” movie out of this world or in ...

How on earth did you do that in Brazil????!!!!!

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You don’t have to answer

I don’t know US but as far as CITES papers the permit is only needed when specimen is crossing a border. One doesn’t need permit at all if specimen is acquired within Canada or I suppose inside other country too. I don’t even have to ask or care if the specimen was legally or illegally imported as I...

wollastoni wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:23 am

rubemon wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:19 am Thank goodness! Are they harmless to my home's structure, or garden?

No ... but your pool is harmless to them...

I suppose you meant :” Yes…but your pool is harmful to them…” as they will die in it.

When some yellow Papilio get older the yellow turns dark almost orange in some cases. Thats interesting. I am more used to the colors fading with age. I am a curious guy and it raises new questions... - Does it only happen in live specimens ? - Whats the process behind the color alteration, interna...

This is the species that made me start collecting in Angola. One question: Is the color of the female at the bottom a normal color variation (I saw only this specimen) ? demodocus.jpg The lower specimen is an older normal variant. When some yellow Papilio get older the yellow turns dark almost oran...

I have noticed for the last two years a very low number of insect here in Southern Ontario as well. As we are ending now global warming era and entering global boiling era propagated by global elites and politics what is really that contributes to such a drop in relatively short period of time. 5G w...

These are Naphthaline balls that you use which are 100% useless, they will not kill anything.
The temperature of 46°C will not kill pests, it’s the environment where they are, exposed to prolong dry air in the oven.

Thanks but i have no possibility to freeze Them, the small refrigurator WE have ist for food especially ice cream and pizza and i have over 100 boxes Go to the nearest restaurant which is equipped with build in freezer ask them if you could place your boxes somewhere in the corner, maybe pay small ...

Insert box into a large ziploc bag and freeze it for few days, unfreeze, wait couple of day and freeze again for few days. Double freeze make sure all adults, larvae and newly hatched larvae from possible eggs will die. Wait 24 hrs before you remove box from the bag after you take out of the freezer...

Which part in Richmond Hill did you visit

Thysania agrippina has only 2 pairs of prolegs and the larvae on the photo has at least 3 or 4 but the fourth one is not really visible. Unless the larvae add one more pair while grow? There is a true photo of freshly emerged larvae. http://www.danske-natur.dk/images121b/bere215539apm.jpg I don’t k...

Thysania agrippina has only 2 pairs of prolegs and the larvae on the photo has at least 3 or 4 but the fourth one is not really visible. Unless the larvae add one more pair while grow?
There is a true photo of freshly emerged larvae.
http://www.danske-natur.dk/images121b/bere215539apm.jpg

I have no idea if this is correct. I am also not familiar with caterpillars from this group of moths. Any thoughts as to whether or not this may be legitimate? “This is the caterpillar of the white witch moth (Thysania agrippina), the world's largest moth by wingspan. It is the first ever and only ...

sexed a lot of moths, in questionable cases, by examining the frenulum; moths usually (not always) have a frenulum, which is a wing-coupling device that joins together the forewing and hindwing. Look at the base of the wings on the underside... Males have a single, thick, hairlike spine that extend...

I suppose this is a normal behaviour.
The adults emerge and first search for minerals to successfully mate.
That’s why most of mud puddling butterflies are fresh.
I also noticed that while collecting in tropics.

daveuk wrote: ↑Fri Jul 21, 2023 2:40 pm

wollastoni wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 1:46 pm The red one is not a doris indeed. Any locality ?

Picture with the data now Olivier. You were right. It's Heliconius sara according to the data

I suppose it is H.doris, definitely not H.sara

wollastoni wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 1:46 pm The red one is not a doris indeed. Any locality ?

Actually there is a form of Heliconius doris doris that looks exactly the same so it could be it.