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by livingplanet3
Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:47 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Undet. Day-flying moth (Vietnam)
Replies: 5
Views: 465

Re: Undet. Day-flying moth (Vietnam)

Recently spread this pair of lovely day-flying moths which apparently mimic a papilio species. Really good mimicry here. I initially started with 6 papered specimens but, was told ahead of time that this species often has wing- marred individuals or those with wing damage not always apparent with c...
by livingplanet3
Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:35 am
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
Replies: 16
Views: 1512

Re: Even common species can offer subtle surprises

-- oh' my are you lucky to see butterflies so early ! I've seen C. euytheme even in early to mid January, if the weather gets warm enough. I wonder though - are these freshly emerged from pupae, in response to suddenly warmer conditions, or do some late-season adults just go into torpor when colder...
by livingplanet3
Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:51 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
Replies: 16
Views: 1512

Re: Even common species can offer subtle surprises

It was 75 F (24 C) here today, and I saw a couple of C. eurytheme, along with a few other, smaller Pieridae. Also, an Anaea andria.
by livingplanet3
Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:25 pm
Forum: Insect identification
Topic: Cricket or cockroach?
Replies: 2
Views: 449

Re: Cricket or cockroach?

At first I thought this was a small cockroach but recently I read some articles and saw illustration of crickets that make me want to assume it is one. Yet it makes no sound that a cricket usually makes. What is it actually? (This was taken near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where I live) It's a cricket.
by livingplanet3
Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:27 am
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
Replies: 14
Views: 9984

Re: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"

Yes - it's Todd Stout who is doing this. He has been very aggressive about getting kids in Utah out with a net in their hands as part of the Lep Soc's "OuterNet" program. I think he started making them because he needed them for the new kids he tries to get excited about collecting. It's ...
by livingplanet3
Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:36 pm
Forum: Announcements & News
Topic: USA Insect Drawers
Replies: 15
Views: 19291

Re: USA Insect Drawers

No, they don't. It also grips the pin quite well, despite the fact that the pin is very easy to insert. Just a wonderful material in every way, including appearance - it has no reflection (this foam has no “skin”), and is a very pleasing shade of white. I heartily agree, this is the only way to go....
by livingplanet3
Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Jewel beetles photographed in 2023 and early 2024
Replies: 4
Views: 922

Re: Jewel beetles photographed in 2023 and early 2024

Superb photos! All from Queensland?
by livingplanet3
Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:39 pm
Forum: Announcements & News
Topic: USA Insect Drawers
Replies: 15
Views: 19291

Re: USA Insect Drawers

What is the main advantage of plastazote, over something such as foamcore? Do pins not leave visible holes in plastazote, if removed?
by livingplanet3
Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:15 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
Replies: 14
Views: 19515

Re: Thai Sunray Canna

Speaking of Lantana varieties/species, here is one that until very recently, I was unaware of: the purple trailing Lantata (L. montevidensis), a native of South America - https://plantsexpress.com/cdn/shop/products/Purple-Trailing-Lantana-1.jpg?v=1684521123 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantana_mont...
by livingplanet3
Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
Replies: 14
Views: 19515

Re: Thai Sunray Canna

My Monkey Puzzle tree is the only animal proof plant I have. Possibly the last thing that ate the foliage of that kind of tree, were sauropod dinosaurs. Great, and already my dreams of guaranteed attraction is immediately cast into doubt. It might depend on what species of butterflies you have in y...
by livingplanet3
Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:16 am
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
Replies: 14
Views: 19515

Re: Thai Sunray Canna

Livingplanet, I've never heard of Lantana described as smelling like "citus, pine, & gasoline". To me it has a very pleasant odor, and you can smell it without cutting it. It's definitely not odorless. Interesting - it seems that people often find the odor of Lantana somewhat noxious....
by livingplanet3
Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:30 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
Replies: 14
Views: 19515

Re: Thai Sunray Canna

Lantana is everywhere here in the Phoenix area - it can definitely take the most brutal heat and sun, with only moderate watering!... Very common throughout TX as well, including a native species, Lantana urticoides, that has red/orange/yellow flowers - https://www.bio.utexas.edu/courses/bio406d/im...
by livingplanet3
Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:36 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
Replies: 14
Views: 19515

Thai Sunray Canna

Thai Sunray, a new (to me) Canna variety that I've pre-ordered for planting next year - https://www.cannas.net/media/catalog/product/cache/cc91396c270bcdcb3b5458687334b719/t/h/thai_sunray_sept_18_2019_1_sq_small_1.jpg It's unusually cold here in North TX right now - it hasn't gone above about 15 F (...
by livingplanet3
Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:36 pm
Forum: Insect Photography & Video
Topic: tiny caterpillars
Replies: 12
Views: 8845

Re: tiny caterpillars

Yes. Such a variety of life. Fake looking animals on a fake looking plant. It would be a feat to burrow in the ground with those antennae. Speaking of real (but fake-looking) insects, weevils of the genus Eupholus (such as E. magnificus) come to mind :) - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FxWFCj2XgAAlArM...
by livingplanet3
Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:47 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Trogonoptera brookiana
Replies: 16
Views: 6411

Re: Trogonoptera brookiana

Hello livingplanet3, Those are some superb photographs that you have there. They really convey the marvelous and distinctive beauty of this particular butterfly species. It's still remains amongst MY top 20 favorite butterfly species.... It was my first opportunity to acquire a "birdwing"...
by livingplanet3
Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:40 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Replies: 10
Views: 9089

Re: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.

Cabintom wrote: Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:06 pm livingplanet, what's the source of your images? (Do you have the data for the specimens?) Quite possible I'm wrong, but my gut says your top image is a male harpalyce, while the bottom is definitely a female harpalyce.
Sources added below the images.
by livingplanet3
Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:27 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Replies: 10
Views: 9089

Re: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.

Looks like E. harpalyce to me... the FW subapical band comes much nearer to the margin in E. losinga (furthermore, it doesn't seem that losinga has been recorded from Uganda). The two species are so very similar, and I assume that there is some degree of variability within each, but indeed, thanks ...
by livingplanet3
Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:37 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Morpho rhetenor helena male aberration
Replies: 1
Views: 1693

Re: Morpho rhetenor helena male aberration

Annarobertson1947 wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:42 am Better pic than previous, large beautiful deep blue
Superb!
by livingplanet3
Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
Replies: 10
Views: 9089

Re: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.

Trehopr1 wrote: Tue Jan 09, 2024 5:40 am Here I have a species of Euphaedra which could use
an I.D. Its a lovely chocolate-brown color overall with
little white tips at the apex of the forewings. Seems like
something of a standout species but, I sure can't find it !

Another I.D. much appreciated...
It appears to be Euphaedra losinga.
by livingplanet3
Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:24 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Unknown Uganda Acraeid
Replies: 5
Views: 3094

Re: Unknown Uganda Acraeid

Acraeini are a tribe of butterflies which are quite plentiful on the continent of Africa. This species is out of Uganda and I was hoping someone of regional Africa expertice could possibly place a name for it. It is asking a bit as I know how numerous and varied this tribe is. Appreciate any help.....