Retail is difficult, I've tried it a couple times, with a store front, and online. The public is fickle and sellers need a variety of inventory as well as some sort of advertising. I do recall selling a number of riker mounts to a neighbor one holiday season, but I probably lost money on the specime...

I've tried selling insect displays of various sizes (riker mounts) of different beetle and lep species. Complete waste of time. While my relatives were supportive and always said that I should try and sell my displays at craft fairs and other venues, I never sold a thing. Maybe it's the customer bas...

I found this on Ebay, if I could read French, maybe I'd have known this item is only 7cm x10cm. My worries about finding a frame
are over.

Good luck with it, I've known someone who got the permit, went through the work, and had nothing but problems with the livestock.
Perhaps the individual needed to put more work into the environment, or better sources.

Most of us already are aware of the permit system. Some of us just don't the feds crawling around their houses.

so, that was fun, but I should follow up on the topic. I think it was a gravid female that flew to the light and mated a 2nd time with the male that was also attracted to the uv light. How that happened is anyone's guess. This conclusion because the female laid only about 25 eggs on the second night...

Luckily male Saturniidae don't have to wait long for the End of Time. ;) Adam. Very good Adam! :lol: I was wondering if anyone else got the “connection” in the title! I know! Your "cool" factor just raised considerably. Bat out of Hell was such a classic album, and Meatloaf was great on s...

Thanks for the input.
I have had Antherae pernyi mate twice, although it was with the same male, the same evening.

Last night I caught what I'm assuming are some Coloradia pandora. I left them overnight in the light trap I use, and this morning they were copulating. I was unaware that females would fly to a light source before being fertilized. There isn't anything in my copy of Wild Silkmoths of North America a...

Well, it took a long time. I would have never guessed. We do have cooler temperatures here on the Oregon coast, but I never expected the following- A female Papilio rutulus laid ova on my Salix babylonica, I watched her flit about and found 1 egg, I sleeved it on July 11, a few days ago I checked th...

Recently I learned something new, I had a pair of Citheronia slpendens copulate and the female laid eggs. I kept some, and sold the rest, what was a surprise is the short amount of time it took the ova to hatch, even being kept at my room temperature of around 72- 76 f. Nine days. Perhaps that is ty...

I've got a few Colias, I have found that they're locally common at times. Last season we spent a few hours near Detroit Lake in OR and one or two would fly by at a time, seems like there was always one flittering about. Just like real estate, location and timing. That being said- finding that spot t...

Once I put her on the spreading board, she showed more yellow. Probably just a worn female rutulus, I did sleeve one of her ova, all I could find... and reach. Watching them deposit eggs is a pleasure. I don't think she laid any eggs once I brought her indoors, I have to check the flight cage and th...

My latest capture, in the yard here at home, I netted her after she deposited ova on the weeping willow. No need to go into the field. DSCN2118.JPG Papilio rutulus I assume, although I don't think I've seen one this pale. It took some looking, but today I found one of her ova, would've been easier y...

I'm confused. About this thread. Speyeria cybele in the Pacific Northwest, the males and females are sexually dimorphic in a dramatic manner. Is that simply the "leto" subspecies? Even Robert Pyle's Butterflies of Cascadia book leaves me in over my head apparently. I would have never consi...

doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl. There's no such thing as 1 roach, ant, spider or other random critter.
I'd try the bait, I have ants and that's the only thing to do, and I mix up the brands instead of just using 1
product. It's a bug world and we're in the way.

you should be able to tell if the larva has formed a pupa by shining a strong light through the cocoon. if you can't see it for sure, simple clock watching will work also. My experience is that it takes about 10 days for a larva, of most Saturniidae to form a pupa after beginning it's cocoon. If I w...

It must still be early- I almost typed in "caterpillar" for my password. In any event, I have noticed caterpillars are very colorful and interesting. Sorry though, I have no interest in preserving them. Too much work and space required. Years ago I read instructions for inflating larva, I'...

I remember seeing my first firefly. One could assume that all the issues concerning fireflies are a problem for a number of animals. Light pollution isn't something most people think about, the subdivision near me is lit up like an airport, and it's all empty vacation rentals, lets all go buy some m...

Besides being interesting the different species attracting the other, the times you quote for flight are completely different than what I have experienced here in Oregon, polyphemus flies early, maybe before midnight, and the euryalus always show up at 2 different times- the fertilized females fly e...