Nice. I’m not sure what qualifies as an aberrant H. eglanterina. Everything that you have pictured except for the male H. chinatiensis is eglanterina. There are collectors with not only entire drawers of eglanterina, but entire cabinets, and they still don’t have every color variant. Generally spea...

15july23: Wayne Co., Lake Ontario shore area. Despite quite a bit of time searching and looking, none were sighted. EXCEPT later when I was standing on a dock speaking with a friend and one flew between us. 16july23: rain. I know the feeling! In Costa Rica some years ago I collected with a friend w...

In the coastal area of Georgia, palamedes can be taken feeding on Azalea flowers in the Spring (March-April); the 2nd brood appears in July-August and nectars on pickerel weed, ironweed, and garden flowers, especially tihtonia. I find that the butterfly is a low flyer, not a canopy species, and have...

Remarkable that fresh females were emerging as late as early August in Georgia. In the mountains of eastern Tennessee females usually appear shortly after the 4th of July, and are usually at peak abundance (not dispersed yet?) around July 12-14. Maybe it was a year when things were overall late to e...

Nice Sessiid!

These must be the most fragile moths under the sun. I find that the legs and antennae part company from the moth if I just look at them too hard.

jh

It's been done, Chuck. The late Paul Opler and I had an arrangement whereby I would spread material (mostly skippers and Lycaenids) for the Gillette Museum at Colorado State. The deal was that, of any lot sent to me to spread, I could keep about 25% of the lot. But I could keep no more than 50% of a...

I place a determination label in each tray, but not on individual specimens -- specimen pins hold only collecting data. Cheers, jh Doesn't that mean a unit pinning tray for one singular specimen of a species? Or ssp? I wish I had that amount of space! Not at all, Chuck. One determination label (wit...

I'm with Chuck. I use unit trays for all my smaller things (Lycaenids, skippers, smaller Nymphalids, satyrs, Pierids, Parnassians, most moths) and open drawers for the big ones (Papilios, Morphos, Brassolids, Saturnids, etc.) I started using unit trays ages ago (late '70's) when I bought a bunch of ...

Chuck said: "But we can't say the status of any of these type-only species because we've not seen them in a century." Exactly. In a lot of cases, that might be because no one has really looked since the type was collected. Could be that the locality is no longer accessible, or collecting i...

...White fm. Monarchs = (probably from Hawaii) Interesting - I can't recall having heard of white morph monarchs before. The "white" monarchs were fairly well known from Hawaii a couple or three decades ago. I suspect they might have died out - haven't seen much of them in recent years. A...

I have specimens of glaucus from coastal southern GA that are indistinguishable from my FL specimens. I think they are all referable to maynardi.

jh

Wonderful Lycaenids! John Tennent and a co-author whose name escapes me at the moment are working on a revision of the genus. He was in the US a few years back examining museum holdings of the Hypochrysops.

jh

On the coast of Georgia this week it's been in the lower 80's most days, and I'm seeing Pheobis sennae in some numbers, and the occasional Papilio palamedes on the wing. Megathymus yuccae is probably flying, but it's a tough bug to spot! jh Pardon my mistyping of Phoebis sennae. And I can add Papil...

Beautiful specimens, and beautiful images. A favoroite genus of mine. And if there's any butterfly genus that needs revision, it's Arhopala!
Does anyone know whether someone is working on Arhopala systematics using modern methodology?
jh

On the coast of Georgia this week it's been in the lower 80's most days, and I'm seeing Pheobis sennae in some numbers, and the occasional Papilio palamedes on the wing. Megathymus yuccae is probably flying, but it's a tough bug to spot!
jh

I've never paid much attention to this genus, but the discussions and new taxa you guys have been presenting lately is quite interesting. Thanks. Me too! For some reason I've always thought of Stichopthalma as being SE Asia's answer to the neotropical genus Morpho . I'd love to know if their behavi...

If anyone would like to have specimens of Chlosyne lacinia, send me a PM. I have a big box of papered specimens, reared from west
Texas females. Almost any size series available. I'd be happy to trade them for about any butterfly specimens.

Cheers,
John Hyatt

Experiment #4 continued, DAY 13!! One vodka test I'm inclined to try is the "oh no I forgot the specimens in the relaxing box for two months." With water, even with a dash of isopropyl to inhibit mold, chances are the specimens would be all mold after two months; I wonder what the vodka w...

58chevy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 1:38 am Surprised to see the European hornet. I'll have to look for that in my area.

I've been getting them in my bait traps in the mountains of east TN for several years now.

jh

Vernon, Thanks for the further information, especially details of your trap design. Should be useful to a lot of people. My old traps (from Holoyda) are Multi-phers, but they still hold together pretty well. I agree that pheromone samples will remain active for at least a couple of years. But here i...