Didn't see any, I wasn't out searching for them, but didn't see any at all, saw very few leps in general. Saw a couple of citrus swallowtails, monarchs, gulf fritillary, and a few blues.

DSCF2270 copy.JPG The larvae kills the host stalk. That makes them a real PITA to breed in numbers or continuously, when they keep killing the host plant. Chuck is right, the euphorian larvae once in final install will sometimes chew right through the stock of the tagala vine, killing all the leave...

Adam mentions wasps coming to his light, I sometimes find a bald faced hornet at my UV light, but not in numbers. My greatest wasp threat is bald faced hornets and yellow jackets coming to my bait traps. I have a couple of Bioquip bait traps that I bought for catocala, but find they are far more eff...

This is an odd H. columbia I got in Central Ontario.

That luna is amazing.
The Goliath looks like a work of either photoshop or UV light.
The colias could be philodice female/eurytheme male??? Or the male wing glued on, as a gynandro as well as 2 species, I don't know, but I am a skeptic.
The blue colias, don't want to even hazard a guess.

My victoriae drawer.

PLEASE tell me about baiting and especially decoys! This is how I bait tiger swallowtails. I know a dirt road that tigers fly along, no point in an area where you don't see them. I pour some salt water in a puddle in the sand at the side of the road, and then place 3 or 4 dead tiger swallowtails, w...

What were the circumstances surrounding the capture of your very special find mothman55 ? I was out baiting tigers (June 8, 2020) that day, I have a circuit along a dirt road that generally has some puddling tigers (canadensis) and I put down some salt water and a few decoys. I was at the end of my...

A few more

Some more North American sphingids, majority self caught, balance acquired via trade.

Great photos, makes me want to get out there are find another. June can't come soon enough.

Boghaunter1, an aberrant very similar to yours showed up on naturalist a couple of years ago. I believe it was from Nova Scotia, but not sure. And it was photographed but not collected, so it probably ended up in a birds beak or a car grill, sad.

And a couple of males, including the one in my avatar, from June 8, 2020.

Love the tigers, especially naturally occurring anomalies/aberrants. Where I am just outside of Toronto, it's mostly glaucus with a few canadensis strays. But where I collect, further north in central Ontario, it's almost entirely canadensis, with a rare glaucous stray. We also get the odd MST in mi...

Yes, you are correct livingplanet3, there is considerable variation in the colour of male alexandrae. The more typical form would be the greenish hindwings with a bit of blue on the inner margin by the abdomen, and some blue on the forewing surrounding the sex-brand. But primarily a more green alexa...

My mistake, think I have the closeup now.

Sure, and there is also some variation in the males also.

DSCF4769.JPG Idalia is one of my favourites as well, my females come in a bit under Trehopr's 89mm. My favourite speyeria is diana which I was lucky to capture a few in West Virginia back in July of 1986. Got one fresh female (second from the bottom) and a number of males. Great memories. Did not s...

I watched that alexandrae video a couple more times and I think that it must be a newly emerged, wings just dried butterfly. As it sits on the flower its proboscis is still curled most of the video, although it can be seen extended later in the video. I think the part in the beginning where it is fl...