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by Trehopr1
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:22 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Agrias butterflies
Replies: 131
Views: 9112

Re: Agrias butterflies

Do you have any more you could share with us Olivier ?
by Trehopr1
Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:19 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Agrias butterflies
Replies: 131
Views: 9112

Re: Agrias butterflies

A lovely and rare find indeed !

Thank you for sharing 🙏 your exquisite specimen with us.
by Trehopr1
Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:05 am
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
Replies: 11
Views: 504

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...
by Trehopr1
Sun Feb 18, 2024 5:21 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
Replies: 11
Views: 504

Re: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera

Please do let us know what seems to work best and how things turn out !☺️
by Trehopr1
Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:04 am
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Question about pinning spread Lepidoptera
Replies: 11
Views: 504

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...
by Trehopr1
Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:00 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
Replies: 16
Views: 1512

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...
by Trehopr1
Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Undet. Day-flying moth (Vietnam)
Replies: 5
Views: 466

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...
by Trehopr1
Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:48 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
Replies: 16
Views: 1512

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...
by Trehopr1
Sun Feb 11, 2024 12:26 am
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
Replies: 16
Views: 1512

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...
by Trehopr1
Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:41 am
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Idea blanchardii morosiana
Replies: 0
Views: 348

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...
by Trehopr1
Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:24 am
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: More Uganda niceties....
Replies: 8
Views: 1040

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...
by Trehopr1
Fri Feb 09, 2024 3:46 am
Forum: Mantodea and Phasmida
Topic: Mantids: the noble, patient predators.
Replies: 0
Views: 129

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 ...
by Trehopr1
Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:51 am
Forum: Hymenoptera
Topic: How to spread a pepsis tarantula hawk wasp ?
Replies: 12
Views: 8311

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...
by Trehopr1
Fri Feb 09, 2024 2:34 am
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: The Clipper (Parthenos sylvia)
Replies: 1
Views: 386

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...
by Trehopr1
Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:04 pm
Forum: Diptera
Topic: Beeflies !
Replies: 4
Views: 633

Re: Beeflies !

Hello John K, Thank you so much for your kind remarks ! Nice to hear that you also find them a challenge to catch. I will have to look into that book you mentioned. It sounds like THE BIBLE on beeflies. The only thing is I just don't know how much use I could ever have for such a book to justify wha...
by Trehopr1
Mon Feb 05, 2024 12:13 am
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
Replies: 16
Views: 1512

Re: Even common species can offer subtle surprises

You know, Texas is well below the "frost line" of the Northern tier of states so, I could see Pieridae as having a much longer lived life span as adults. Perhaps many months and they are pretty tough butterflies in that they can take periods (of a certain measure of cold) which would likel...
by Trehopr1
Sun Feb 04, 2024 11:00 pm
Forum: Hymenoptera
Topic: How to spread a pepsis tarantula hawk wasp ?
Replies: 12
Views: 8311

Re: How to spread a pepsis tarantula hawk wasp ?

It has been awile since this topic was first addressed. While I don't dabble much with the order Hymenoptera I still have to relate a certain fondness in the challenge of properly preparing them aethetically (life-like). Hymenoptera are greatly unappreciated as beautiful "in their own right&quo...
by Trehopr1
Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:20 pm
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 !
by Trehopr1
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:51 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: More Uganda niceties....
Replies: 8
Views: 1040

Re: More Uganda niceties....

Here are a few more species exhibiting more of that extraordinary diversity present in Uganda. Once again, many thanks to my good friend for his kindness in "gifting" me these specimens and for his tireless knowledge in identifying them for me. https://i.imgur.com/JEyg6XX.jpg Appias sylvia...
by Trehopr1
Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:53 pm
Forum: Diptera
Topic: Beeflies !
Replies: 4
Views: 633

Beeflies !

The flies of the family Bombyliidae are collectively known as Beeflies. Theirs is a large and cosmopolitan family which comprises hundreds of genera and at present numbers at least 4,500 species --- and counting. The greater number of these flies resemble bees and they vary in size from as little as...