I will ask the guy who organizes it and let you know.
I would bet on September 23/24 but let's check.

I won't be able to attend it this year as I should be in New Guinea in end September.

If you find a flight to French Guadeloupe or French Martinique, then you can easily join Cayenne by plane from there.

In S America : French Guiana. You don't need any permits (just a custom declaration to fill online before arrival and a limit of 1000 specimens/person/year).

Haha, no just a nuclear power plant.

I will send you a private message Chuck

Interesting !

I will soon share another relaxing method for Agrias (and other butterflies).

Interesting post. I guess we all agree that very few species have disappeared and will disappear. This said, the biodiversity is collapsing in most part of the world. Take Borneo : very few Bornean species have disappeared, but their distribution went from 90% of the island to 10% in less than 50 ye...

Link above corrected.
Chuck : you can donate with Debit or Credit card there too.

Kind reminder to all who can help.

Chuck wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 1:39 pm Humbly suggest that Olivier, who has experience with websites, try to track down ownership and content.

I would be happy to help but have no idea if Les gave the ownership to anyone or at least its registar information... I will ask one of our common friend.

It seems many members are mixing the concept of genus with the concept of species.

Take Aglais io. You can call it Inachis io too. It is the same species and both name are « valid ».

hewi wrote: ↑Thu Dec 29, 2022 12:54 pm and here a beautiful female variation of A.phalcidon phalcidon

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This female form augustus is just CRAZY ! Congrats Manfred, this is a breathtaking specimen !

Our dear friend Les Day passed away in his beloved Koh Samui. Leslie was a British entomologist who had been living on Koh Samui for about 15 years. When he lived in England, he was very interested in Delias and built a large collection, he also created the website Delias of the World , then once se...

Alex Cahurel lives one hour from my house in Brittany (France).
He is a famous entomological equipment supplier in France.

He has made dozens of travel to S. America (especially F. Guiana) and has thus a strong knowledge in neotropical insects.

I wish all members of our small community a merry Christmas !

The mass of butterflies has also collapsed in French Guiana, one of the most preserved parts of Amazonia. Not the pesticide there, doubtful about a new parasite in FG too... My local friends in FG have a theory : with global warming and/or massive deforestation in Brazil, the season rhytm in FG has ...

Jshuey wrote: ↑Wed Dec 14, 2022 9:24 pm All you see is flashing blue and red - until they land

Yes, Siderone are very fast flyers ! I had the luck to net one in flight in French Guiana, I was very proud of myself !

It will be a nightmare indeed for small collectors who sell their extra-catch to finance their collecting trips...

Would be more efficient to tax Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos of 1% of their income... but some politicians stopped that...

Speaking of faked photos, my pet peeve is one I keep seeing in ads -- a male Morpho didius sitting on a flower. Bugs me to death! jh Also - this, does not happen - https://mymodernmet.com/kelvin-hudson-blue-morpho-butterfly-picture/ https://cdn.myportfolio.com/6929e33e8386f52031efd4948d5b29b1/bdf49...

Even if common on the right spot, Papilio hospiton is a CITES II species and totally protected by French, Italian and EU laws. So the current status is a total protection. This species is fortunately not endangered at all : Corsican and Sardinian mountains are well protected as the human density is ...