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- Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: Beautiful Plates in a 1910 German Book
- Replies: 13
- Views: 549
Re: Beautiful Plates in a 1910 German Book
Those plates are outstanding ! 👀🎉👏 There are several historic entomology books which I'd love to own. They are pretty tough to come by these days due to their scarcity and all around cost. Another amazing aspect of each one of these plates is the detail that has been put into the associated plants a...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2084
Re: Light collecting
Wow, 👀😮🎉🎉 those are some INCREDIBLE lighting set-ups John ! 🙏 They look as though they will "hoover-in" the local forest AND field. That's some serious "mothing" that's going to be going on there.... I conservatively collect at my rather meager moth lighting setup. I only keep th...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:57 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Charaxes lydiae pair
- Replies: 4
- Views: 597
Re: Charaxes lydiae pair
Superb pair !
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Insect Trading Reports
- Topic: Acanthoscurria Ferina
- Replies: 4
- Views: 533
Re: Acanthoscurria Ferina
I have had a side interest/fancy for tarantulas for quite some years. I have even posted some of my dead, spread (articulated) specimens here in the past for general interest/curiosity. Your inquiry (from my view) begs more questions than ansewers.... Why would any "artist" need THESE spec...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:55 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Agrias butterflies
- Replies: 145
- Views: 14256
Re: Agrias butterflies
Thank you kindly hewi for sharing a few more of your really incredible Agrias with us.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Agrias butterflies
- Replies: 145
- Views: 14256
Re: Agrias butterflies
Do you have any more hewi that you can share with us ?
Your material is dynamite !
Your material is dynamite !
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:22 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Agrias butterflies
- Replies: 145
- Views: 14256
Re: Agrias butterflies
Do you have any more you could share with us Olivier ?
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Agrias butterflies
- Replies: 145
- Views: 14256
Re: Agrias butterflies
A lovely and rare find indeed !
Thank you for sharing your exquisite specimen with us.
Thank you for sharing your exquisite specimen with us.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:05 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
- Replies: 11
- Views: 854
Re: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
Very nice to hear of these early successes. As you say it is wise to probably relax/reset the more valuable specimens. This could probably be easily done with as little as five or six hours spent in any relaxer. The first method used on the Lycaena may have been "painstaking" but, once you...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
- Replies: 11
- Views: 854
Re: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
Please do let us know what seems to work best and how things turn out !
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:04 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
- Replies: 11
- Views: 854
Re: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
This may sound unconventional but, you could try getting yourself a packet of "O" size insect pins. They are very thin and fine/sharp pointed. These would easily pierce the thorax of any of your swallowtails or Colias. Just place each specimen on a styrofoam piece and CAREFULLY push it thr...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1892
Re: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
WOW 😮, that's a really incredible aberration mothman55. Thank you so much for kindly showing us the close up AND both sides of it. I have collected my fair share of the species but, I have nothing that compares to that. I tried to enlarge the original photograph on my computer screen however, the im...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:01 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Undet. Day-flying moth (Vietnam)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 664
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 cl...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1892
Re: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
VERY nice series in both drawers ! You have also managed several very nice individuals showing melanism or some select "very orange" looking females. Your drawer of eurytheme (females) is really something the more I look at it ! Could you possibly show us a close-up of that aberrant colore...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:26 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1892
Re: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
Another very recent subtle surprise was this (female) Colias eurytheme which is of the MOST extreme orange "intensity" that I have ever personally encountered in the species. Females are typically quite nice when fresh with their bold and variable markings. I've caught some pretty nice one...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:41 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Idea blanchardii morosiana
- Replies: 0
- Views: 709
Idea blanchardii morosiana
Rice paper butterflies of the genus (Idea) are some of the largest and charasmatic butterflies of southeast Asia. Most or virtually all are of a black/white color combination and have a large wing area in relation to their body size. Some are widespread as species whilst many more are localized or r...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:24 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: More Uganda niceties....
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1264
Re: More Uganda niceties....
Here are 3 more species recently removed from the boards. Each is a delight to have... https://i.imgur.com/0Y2TQrG.jpeg Cyrestis camillus --- an amazingly attractive species ! https://i.imgur.com/ExdvjZM.jpeg Colotis antivippe zera *my 2nd Colotis species. https://i.imgur.com/Rkoum9l.jpeg Belenois c...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:46 am
- Forum: Mantodea and Phasmida
- Topic: Mantids: the noble, patient predators.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 472
Mantids: the noble, patient predators.
Mantids have a character all their own. They have a noble way about them in their appearance. They are watchful, patient, and calculating predators which have captured our imaginations for a very long time. Their order Mantodea numbers just over 2400 species in 15 families and in 430 genera. I have ...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:51 am
- Forum: Hymenoptera
- Topic: How to spread a pepsis tarantula hawk wasp ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9230
Re: How to spread a pepsis tarantula hawk wasp ?
Here is another wonderful and large species of Giant Scoliid Wasp (Megascolia procer) of the family Scoliidae. It has a wide range across many countries of southeast Asia as well as Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. This male was re-spread by me using glass strips stacked under the wings for (a level plane...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:34 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: The Clipper (Parthenos sylvia)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 552
The Clipper (Parthenos sylvia)
The Clipper is a fast-flying butterfly which is found mostly within forested areas of many countries in southeast Asia. There are a whole "pile" of named subspecies and some exhibit extraordinary bluish coloration/highlights. This one pictured is my first of the species and it certainly be...