For those of you who read French, there is a funny book called “ Sa majesté des papillons ” ("Lord of the Butterflies") which recounts a recent French expedition in search of the female antimachus. The expedition received a lot of press coverage... but it was a disastrously organized expedition ...

Once again : wonderful !

A lifer !

Some collectors are being scammed by purchasing female Papilio antimachus (rare in collections) that are actually altered males.
Here are some recent live photos by Sui Fai Pun that clearly show the differences between males and females:

Female :
papilio antimachus female.jpg

Male :
papilio ...

Hello,

Welcome here.
The few French Guianan entomologists that I know are working on Amazonian species only. They already have so much work studying their own fauna. I doubt they will be interested in entomo pins or European insects.
When and where do you go inside French Guiana ?

I will be there ...

Wonderful form congrats !

I thought the fletcheri-like forms were temperature triggered ab so I don't really understand how it can be inheritable. If you can share the paper Chuck, I would be interested to read it.

I am sure you will get many proposals from our African friends...

livingplanet3 wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 3:27 am A bit technical, and I'm no chemist, but it makes me wonder if some other species of Pieridae might have similar defensive toxins.

Delias are unpalatable too. That's why they are at the heart of several mimicry rings in SE Asia and New Guinea.

Impressive specimen John !

Thank you for your vigilance, I have deleted his accounts.

I am glad to say that the fix I made yesterday seems to work. We should see no more "Resource Limit Usage" errors during bot attacks. We will see.

USA.

Sorry guys, we have been offline for 2 days due to another bot attack who crashed our server and I was far from home to fix it.

I have just spent 2 hours coding something new.
Theorically, it should help. Let's see on the next attack if the server crashes again or not.

Very nice caterpillars. Hope everything will go fine.
Keep us posted with the next steps.

Wow, I would like to know which species you collected there. I am interested in this lovely Lycaenidae. If you know anyone who shares same passion as me, please introduce those friednds to me!


I will send you my friends' contact by PM. He will get my Laotian specimens in end-September only as ...

Our friend Jean-Marc (JMG) has spent great time there too. He posted several pictures of his trip on the ALF website : https://www.lepidofrance.fr/quelques-pa ... re-partie/

Wonderful beasts ! Thanks a lot for sharing, Dave !

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A great supplier of South American insects based in Chile.

So many topics about him :
https://archive.insectnet.com/thread/9617/matt-nochisaki-semi-missing-trader
https://forum.insectnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=265
He has ruined his e-reputation for few bucks...

I am sure some people have stop collecting, raising moth because of bad experience with these ...

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It takes 2 days to get back from Phou Samsoum to Luang Prabang, but we had planned for 3 days so as not to miss our return flight in case of a problem on the road (blocked road, accident...). As the return trip took 2 days, we had one day free, so we went hunting in the forest above the Kuang Si ...