Search found 33 matches
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Kallima inachus formosana
- Replies: 3
- Views: 211
Re: Kallima inachus formosana
Love this species, thanks for sharing.
- Wed Jan 04, 2023 4:37 pm
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Butterfly Identification Peru
- Replies: 10
- Views: 269
Re: Butterfly Identification Peru
You have weeks of ID work in front of you to ID all 200. Last year I purchased a number of lycaenidae from a dealer in Peru, and what I did was start with google. I googled "lycaenidae of Peru", then clicked on images. From there, find an image that's looks like your item, and visit that s...
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 9:18 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Fountainea nobilis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 609
Re: Fountainea nobilis
Have always used Bioquip adhesive for antennae and tails, but when it's gone I will go to white glue I expect. Even with Bioquip glue, it dries dark and shiny if you are just trying to mend a crack or slit. There must be a glue that is invisible when dry, I just haven't found it yet.
- Sat Dec 17, 2022 6:41 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Actias hybrid
- Replies: 0
- Views: 265
Actias hybrid
One of my favourite moths is the cross between Actias dubernardi and Graellsia isabellae.
- Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:18 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: Moths of the Limberlost
- Replies: 2
- Views: 288
Moths of the Limberlost
For many of us, there was one inspirational book in our youth that was read many times and fed the desire to pursue this hobby. For me it was Moths of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter, 1912. As you can see by the binding, I have read this book numerous times and can still recall each of the mo...
- Thu Dec 15, 2022 10:50 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: More Catocala forms
- Replies: 3
- Views: 249
Re: More Catocala forms
A couple more.
- Thu Dec 15, 2022 10:23 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: More Catocala forms
- Replies: 3
- Views: 249
More Catocala forms
The recent thread on catocala ilia forms inspired me to add a few more catocala forms. Whether forms are scientifically recognized or not, I don't care, I find it easier to differentiate among the species when there are recognized forms.
- Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:14 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Black Witch Moths
- Replies: 3
- Views: 280
Re: Black Witch Moths
I am going to Kauai in late January, I will look for the black witch there.
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 5:20 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Consul panariste
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1241
Re: Consul panariste
The photo was likely just edited, no need for photoshop. Just turned up the brilliance/vibrance dial in editing and you get a beautiful brilliant photo, but sadly not what it really looked like. No doubt it was a beautiful, but the colours not quite what show in the photo. I see it all the time.
- Sat Nov 19, 2022 10:40 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Nymphalis milberti milberti
- Replies: 14
- Views: 607
Re: Nymphalis milberti milberti
I have had great luck with Vanessa Atalanta as well, they seemed to actually multiply. I would go and get more nettle and a couple of days later there were more larvae, guess there must have been ova on the nettle I harvested. Got 100% success with these. But on the milberti, all I can think of is I...
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:59 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: How do you find people to trade insect specimens with?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1035
Re: How do you find people to trade insect specimens with?
Back in the 1980's, trading specimens as well as ova and pupae was easy. I made many contacts, mostly in the USA through Lep News, sent and received all sorts of interesting things. No problem with the Canada/USA border in those days. Made contacts for collecting trips for beauties such as Speyeria ...
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:47 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Nymphalis milberti milberti
- Replies: 14
- Views: 607
Re: Nymphalis milberti milberti
In years past I used to occasionally see milberti, but have not seen one in my travels around Southern and Central Ontario for years. But in July of 2019 while visiting a friend, we were walking his property just west of Guelph when we found a mass of tiny larvae on a stinging nettle. Had to be eith...
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:30 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Polygonia interrogationis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 469
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:26 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Polygonia interrogationis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 469
Re: Polygonia interrogationis
I get the fall form on my catocala bait along with comma and Comptons./Users/haldonly/Desktop/PXL_20221118_193829583.MP.jpg
- Mon Oct 31, 2022 12:57 pm
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Sphinx moth caterpillar I think
- Replies: 9
- Views: 236
Re: Sphinx moth caterpillar I think
I was wondering if you carefully cut the top of those eggs attached to your larvae, if it might save the soon to be pupae from the parasite? I doubt the parasite eggs could be fully removed without killing the larvae. Its worth trying something as the parasite will surely kill the pupae.
- Tue Sep 27, 2022 11:37 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: To Bima & Back Again: A Journey through the Bush of Bas-Uele
- Replies: 34
- Views: 900
Re: To Bima & Back Again: A Journey through the Bush of Bas-Uele
Takes a lot of courage to make a trip like that, good on you. Memories for a lifetime.
- Tue Sep 27, 2022 10:07 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Buckeye (Junonia coenia)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 184
Re: Buckeye (Junonia coenia)
We don't see a lot of buckeye's here in Ontario, but as Trehopr1 pointed out, hit it just right and you can have quite the bonanza. I made a 3 hour drive last week to Port Burwell, Ontario as the buckeyes seem to be on the waterfronts here in Ontario. A friend had been to a spot a few days prior and...
- Sat Sep 17, 2022 7:02 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Gone With The Wind
- Replies: 7
- Views: 331
Re: Gone With The Wind
Like the others, I also did a lot of collecting from lights at stores, schools, maintenance garages, basically any building in a remote area that was lit up. Any time I needed hyalophora columbia, I would drive to Perry Sound, Ontario and drive the back roads, stopping at any bright light. Always ha...
- Fri Sep 16, 2022 2:25 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Speyeria nokomis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 297
Re: Speyeria nokomis
I am also surprised that the female would lay in a paper bag. That is the common method for moths, especially silk moths, just put the female in a bag and you will have ova in a day or two. But butterflies, I have always put the female on its food plant and covered with netting, ensuring the plant w...
- Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:30 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Any forum members SELL in Marketplace?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 263
Re: Any forum members SELL in Marketplace?
I don't visit marketplace either.