Dave, I believe this new female should be S. syntyche mars.

I've used this method many times in the past and didn't notice reduced fertility, but I rarely kept them in the fridge for more than a few days. My fridge is always set at 4 degrees C. The insects are not fully dormant and do become weaker over time, I guess it's not too dissimilar to a cold day in ...

Yes. Subspecies are just a subset of a species, species are a subset of a genus, and genera are a subset of a family. Any changes made at any level carry on down the chain.

...but I'd like to point out that this doesn't apply to anyone here whose first language is not English. You all do a lot better with English than we could with your languages.

Hi All,

The ability to write is a dying art. I went to the pharmacy today to pick up a prescription and there was a sign reading "Respiratory illnesses are up in your area. Protect yourself today by asking your pharmacist to get a vaccination." So, I asked the pharmacist if she had her vaccines ...

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I believe he was suggesting he was going to print extra labels to pin to the drawer bottom. Obviously it is never a good idea to remove labels from the pin.

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Yes small headless cabinet points or minuten pins are the best ...

Sure, when Britain left EU, they add "tariff" on EU parcels.

In France, we have this 20% VAT on all parcels outside of EU now, and we don't have it when the parcels come from the EU. That's what an economic union is about : free trade.


Yep, we have 20% VAT on everything coming from outside ...

Chuck wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 12:28 pm eBay only does what the government makes them do. The government elects to have a 20% VAT. They could have made it zero.

Maybe so, but eBay never added it before Brexit in January 2020, and before that, all countries outside the EU were subject to 20% VAT.

Yep, when Brexit came in, eBay started charging us 20% VAT on evertything from the EU AND the rest of the world, which had never previously happened. This means that everything bought on eBay now costs 20% more, which is why I never use it anymore, along with, I'm sure, many other people. Yet ...

I spent a month collecting in Kyrgyzstan with Henri and his wife Arlette in 1999. I also bumped into them in China and we met regularly at Juvisy. They were both good company and Henri was an absolute fount of knowledge about all things Lepidoptera.

Very sad news!

I remember many years ago on a trip to northeast Spain in September, seeing a large Wisteria growing round the entrance to some botanic gardens. At the time, the Wisteria had large seedpods on it, and these were covered with eggs of Lampides boeticus and Leptotes pirithous.

I had some priamus poseidon and goliath pupae once. They all emerged a bit crippled, but the priamus were green on emergence.

I've also seen priamus once or twice in buttefly houses here in England, although it was many years ago.

I've got one of the leather ones that a Japanese guy kindly gave me when I admired it on one of my collecting trips to Kyrgyzstan many years ago.

I must admit that I mainly use rectanglar papers now, even though there is a risk of antenna damage. I certainly prefer triangular ones, but they always ...

eurytides wrote: Sat Mar 08, 2025 6:19 pm Bobw, your UK experience might be very similar to what we see along the north range limit of glaucus here. Did you rear them under natural conditions?

I started them indoors, then sleeved them outside when they were L2/L3.

I reared glaucus here in the UK for a few years many years ago, which I reeared on Ash, although I don't know which form they were. I always got a spring brood which produced a summer brood in August. A small number of these went into diapause which produced the following year's spring brood, but ...

The problem is that most of the big colourful common species are sold to the framing trade, and they couldn't give a toss aboiut abdomens.

I'm not sure exactly how many get greased, but I think the majority do.

Morpho abdomens are always removed in the field to prevent grease from the abdomen spreading to the wings, althought this is ususally only done for males, as females aren't prone to greasing. Reliable suppliers will supply the abdomens separately so they can be degreased and reattached afterwards ...

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