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- Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:27 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
- Replies: 11
- Views: 500
Re: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
Here's an update - and thanks to everyone for their helpful suggestions! Using magnification I did in fact find that the smaller specimens (coppers, hairstreaks, some Pierieds, and most Satyrids) were pinned at one time. All of the others had not been pinned. I decided to experiment with an 82 year ...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
- Replies: 11
- Views: 500
Re: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
Thanks Panacanthus for that suggestion, although I did look initially for holes in the thorax I will check more closely this afternoon to see if they were in fact pinned at one time. These specimens were prepared by a teenager during WW2 who probably didn't have access to, or couldn't afford, insect...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 3:21 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
- Replies: 11
- Views: 500
Re: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
Thanks Trehopr1 for the excellent suggestion. I'll get some "0" and smaller size pins and give it a try. The initial piercing with a fine pin might create a "pilot hole" for a larger sized pin that is more suitable for use on bigger specimens (Nymphalids, swallowtails, etc.). Tha...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
- Replies: 11
- Views: 500
Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
I'm in the process of cataloging a western U.S. butterfly and skipper collection that was made from 1937 to 1945. All of the specimens were spread and layered between layers of cotton in boxes in order to conserve space. I would like to pin many of the specimens and transfer them to Cornell style dr...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Reared Australian butterflies
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6935
Reared Australian butterflies
This small selection is part of a group of butterflies that I mail ordered from the Queensland Butterfly Company back in the late 1970's. They've been displayed in a Riker mount for the last 45 years. I visited the company in 1980 and had a pleasant discussion with the owner, Garry Sankowski, after ...
- Tue Nov 14, 2023 12:49 am
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: Transporting insects out of the U.S. in airline luggage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5275
Re: Transporting insects out of the U.S. in airline luggage
Thank you for those links to USFWS. My friend will be flying non-stop from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam and unfortunately, SLC is not a designated port for wildlife inspections. I'll let him know his options and go from there. Again I appreciate the help.
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: Transporting insects out of the U.S. in airline luggage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5275
Re: Transporting insects out of the U.S. in airline luggage
Thank you Chuck, I appreciate the info. I was hoping that there would be a quick and easy option for the occasional overseas collector who visits the U.S. and wants to take some specimens back home with them. If the specimens need to be inspected at a certain airport before departure then this requi...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 1:43 am
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: Transporting insects out of the U.S. in airline luggage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5275
Transporting insects out of the U.S. in airline luggage
A friend of mine in Europe will be vacationing in the U.S. next spring and I am planning to meet with him near the end of his trip. He is interested in purchasing papered specimens from my collection of American butterflies and will carry them home in his airline luggage. My question is, does he nee...
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 12:19 am
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: The future of the hobby
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6373
Re: The future of the hobby
As mentioned by others, the hobby of collecting and preserving insects is on the decline in the U.S. as fewer young people today are taking up the hobby. There are however many individuals that instead rear and release (or keep as pets) various insects. Many of the milkweed patches in my area are re...
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 3:51 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Idea for rarities collectors??
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1124
Re: Idea for rarities collectors??
The institutions that I'm involved with would be glad to have amateur entomologists and citizen scientists spread material for them and provide excess specimens as an incentive however they don't have the space to store additional prepared material. Most of their storage drawers and cabinets are alr...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 11:09 pm
- Forum: Insect Art
- Topic: A hobby of "small game hunting"....
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3831
Re: A hobby of "small game hunting"....
The original painting of "The Collector" shown at the top of this thread is available for purchase if you have some excess funds: https://www.artsy.net/artwork/stevan-do ... post-cover.
- Fri Feb 03, 2023 1:35 am
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: Canada to US?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4091
Re: Canada to US?
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.
- Fri Sep 16, 2022 3:49 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Speyeria nokomis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 651
Re: Speyeria nokomis
Putting female fritillaries in a #8 brown paper bag is the most common method for collecting ova from these butterflies. Some people put a few dried violet stems and leaves in the bottom of the bag as well but it's not necessary. Sometimes they'll lay eggs on the dried violets but usually not. The b...
- Wed Sep 14, 2022 11:17 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Speyeria nokomis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 651
Speyeria nokomis
On August 30 I collected this female S. nokomis in northeastern Utah and set her up using the paper bag method to obtain 40+ ova. One larva hatched today and the rest should follow tomorrow. She is from a colony known for it's larger than normal sized adults and I hope to rear these through to adult...
- Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:47 pm
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Giant female scale insect
- Replies: 3
- Views: 452
Re: Giant female scale insect
Thank you both very much, Eleodes and livingplanet3, I would have never guessed that this was associated with a Tabanid fly.
- Fri Aug 12, 2022 9:47 pm
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Giant female scale insect
- Replies: 3
- Views: 452
Giant female scale insect
I found this scale insect while obtaining cuttings for my Limenitis rearing projects. The insect is 13 mm long and is attached to a leaf from a sand bar willow, Salix exigua. Location is northern Utah, USA. Any ideas as to its identity? Thanks.
- Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:44 pm
- Forum: Insect Photography & Video
- Topic: Your best live insect picture !
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2736
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Taken this morning near Tremonton, Utah, Limenitis archippus lahontani (male).
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:45 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Self caught specimens
- Replies: 12
- Views: 655
Re: Self caught specimens
Thanks, most L. phlaeas populations in the western U.S. are at high elevations. I believe all L. phlaeas in California are found above 9,000 feet.
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:14 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Self caught specimens
- Replies: 12
- Views: 655
Re: Self caught specimens
I'll add another small copper to the thread: a reared example from a gravid female I caught in southern Utah (USA) from 11,500 feet elevation. This population of Lycaena phlaeas was discovered in 1990. It has not yet been assigned a subspecies name.
- Sun Jul 31, 2022 5:53 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Papilio weymeri
- Replies: 4
- Views: 351
Papilio weymeri
These three examples (two females, one male) are from the Manus area of the Admiralty Islands, Papua New Guinea. In order, they were collected in Nov. 1966, Dec. 1969, and Nov. 1968. Their size is impressive, with the forewing length of the first female being 79 mm. I've wondered why this species ha...