Very nice drawers indeed, Trehopr1! On the subject of drawers: When I do finally get around to pinning / organizing my collection, I'd originally planned to use 16 X 20" shadow boxes to display my specimens on the wall. However, it now appears likely that in the not too distant future, I will b...

P. indra kaibabensis is protected within the boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park, along with all of the other species of Lepidoptera within the park. I believe that outside of the park it is not protected. That's my understanding of the situation as well. I seem to recall reading a news story ...

thejsonboss wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 7:03 pm

Paul K wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 3:40 pm All Papilionidae in Ontario are protected

This is good to know. I see the states moving this way in the not so distant future.

Isn't Papilio aristodemus the only papilionid species currently protected in the US?

According to G. Beccaloni (2010), T. agrippina reaches a wingspan of 308 mm (record specimen in a private collection, Ontario), and C. hercules a wingspan of 290.2 (record specimen in the Queensland Museum, Brisbane). C. hercules has the largest wing area of any lepidopteran however, at 288 cm² (est...

A beautiful photo of a live P. maackii -



Also, see this amazing, captive-reared example of maackii posted by mokky last June -

viewtopic.php?p=1156#p1156

Indeed, quite spectacular!

Thanks for posting photos of your specimens - very nice! Indeed, until just a few years ago, I had never even heard of this species. It's become rather widely available now, but still goes for a somewhat high price in comparison to many other Achillides swallowtails. I have one male charlesi, and on...

A great photo of one of my favorite species of the subgenus Achillides, Papilio krishna - http://www.flutters.org/home/photogallery/plog-content/images/butterflies-brnbspnbspnbsp-papilionidae--swallowtails-br/subfamily-papilioninae--the-swallowtails--brnbspnbspnbsp-genus-papilio--peacoks-/krishna_pe...

Diptera, Brachycera from Kenya Kitui region (dry zone) Does anyone knows what it is ? thanks, Thierry A robber fly (family Asilidae) of the genus Pegesimallus; possibly Pegesimallus teratodes - https://www.google.com/search?q=Pegesimallus+teratodes&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS903US903&oq=Pegesimallus+t...

Top picture from left to right: S howqua formosama pair (Taiwan) S howqua suffusa pair (Sichuan, China) Male S neumogeni(China) & male S sparta evansii(Burma) Middle picture S cambodia. All specimens from Kanchanaburi Thailand Bottom picture Top row S louisa louisa Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Botto...

That's a very impressive series of Stichophthalma specimens, daveuk - many thanks for posting! I have only a single specimen of this genus in my collection, in storage and still papered, collected about 40 years ago. It's a Stichophthalma howqua (probably ssp. formosana).

58chevy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 2:54 am I've heard rumors that this species strays into Texas. Can anybody confirm?

According to the following, it has been recorded from TX -

http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.e ... ges=7758.5

chrisw wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 8:29 pm A little while back I came across some Charaxes species that I couldn't pass up. I finally got around to photographing them...

One of my favorite genera. You're fortunate to have fournierae and lydiae, and quite nice examples, at that.

daveuk wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:14 pm ...I managed to get some specimens from Ken Thorne in Canada a few years back. Ex pupae from El Salvador...

Outstanding specimens! Is this a pair?

While we're on the topic of tiger swallowtails, it's worth mentioning another spectacular member of the glaucus species group, P. pilumnus, which is only a quite rare stray into the US This is a misconception based on the striped wing pattern. Papilio pilumnus belongs to the Pterourus group, with P...

While we're on the topic of tiger swallowtails, it's worth mentioning another spectacular member of the glaucus species group, P. pilumnus, which is only a quite rare stray into the US - https://albertvickdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/three-tailed-swallowtail.jpg https://albertvick.com/2012/05/...

I first saw rutulus on a trip to southern CA in the late 1980s, and at the time, didn't realize that it was a separate species from glaucus. As for multicaudata, I have yet to see that species in the wild, though I do have a fine captive-reared pair (ssp. pusillus) from OR. For reference, here is P....

Papilio polyxenes was probably the first butterfly that I ever raised. Back in the early 1980s, my grandmother used to plant a lot of dill (Anethum graveolens) for use in canning pickles, and every year, polyxenes caterpillars would show up on it, without fail. I was far more interested in rearing t...

A local in Belize told he he was on a fishing trip and discovered he had crab lice, he poured motor oil all over his privates. He said it worked. It was probably not the toxicity of the motor oil that was effective, but the fact that it simply suffocated the lice. You could probably get the same re...

For the past two days small red spots appeared on my body and they began itching. I hope someone can tell me if these are actually bed bugs (which would be a nightmare) or lice. Thanks in Advance for any help!... The insect in your photo is a crab louse (Pthirus pubis) - https://www.cdc.gov/parasit...