And the relicta posted by Trehopr1, quite unique. I don't believe there is a form name for that one, believe it is considered normal form, although it is far from normal. I have a few that are also normal form and somewhat dark, this is as close as I can come to Trehopr1's. Screenshot 2024-04-22 at ...

Breisis is another favourite, and we are fortunate to see a few every year here in Southern Ontario. The forewings can be quite variable from very dark grey to those with wide whitish bands, although I have never seen one like John K posted with mostly white forewings. Something to hope to see somed...

The one with the yellow marker is an interesting one. Also note that the inner hindwing stripe ends well before the inner margin and is narrower than all the other coccinata, as in a number of other catocala species. I believe there are named "forms" of coccinata with this different inner ...

Appreciate the updates, thanks. So we will be patient. There are so many species and changes, it will be worth the wait if it is as good as the other MONA publications.

Bill, did you rear the C. marmoratas or are they wild caught? They are certainly beautiful.

Trehopr1, just happens that I house C. cara and C. relicta in the same extra large drawer. Both species are common here, I can get you some this summer if you want.

The yellow amatrix and C.hermia and C. luciana are not from Ontario, those I acquired from a collector in Saskatchewan.

Trehopr1, a beautiful series of catocala. And you seem to get a great number of species in your area, a few that never stray this far north. Here in southern and central Ontario there are something like 47 recorded species, but some of those are likely rare strays/one offs. I have personally collect...

Here are both sides of the aberrant male eurytheme.

The males seem to have less variation, at least here in the north, but bold and beautiful orange most all. Note the aberrant We also get philodice and interior. There are two or three aberrants in this drawer, pretty easy to spot.

Eurytheme are one of my favourites, especially the females. From just a hint of orange to full on orange. And different border widths, some with much darker shades, they are so variable and beautiful.

My favourite net is a Paradox 26" diameter with Khaki mesh so thin (but non tear) that you can see the butterfly clearly, and when you drop this beast over a group of puddling Papilio canadensis, the mesh is so lightweight that it stays up longer so the butterflies can fly upward. With most net...

Thanks Pierre, didn't know he had an eBay site as well. Sent him a message through eBay and he responded that the Insectrum UK site checkout is disabled for now. And unfortunately he does not have any more of what I was looking for.

Trehopr1 - I wish I could answer your species label question. A couple of years ago I downloaded a labelling program and converted all my manually written specimen labels and species labels to more professional looking labels. Once I was done, I deleted the downloaded software as I was concerned the...

I personally caught one of these beauties back in 1987, on a visit to Vernon's Anita Springs home in Louisiana. It was a mothing weekend, but Vernon allowed us to collect during the day on his DSCF7089.JPG property. That's when I came across the female (top one). The other pair are ex-ova which I wa...

I tried placing an order from this website and all is well in selecting specimens and loading into cart. Problem occurs when trying to process payment, always get an error page saying 0-reCAPTCHA.... which I believe is an anti robot gate. I have sent an email to their contact email, no response as y...

Isn't it funny how you can go into the field well prepared with everything to catch and secure your prize, and see nothing of significance. But then you come across a great prize when you least expect it and are ill prepared for a capture. Good on you for improvising in "the moment" and ma...

Does anyone know if the MONA series of publications has yet covered the catocala species of moths? I have seen various references to such a publication due to come out in the past few years, but have not yet seen it, or heard that it is out.