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- Fri Feb 16, 2024 11:42 pm
- Forum: Mantodea and Phasmida
- Topic: HELP leaf insect hasn't eaten in over a week
- Replies: 3
- Views: 270
Re: HELP leaf insect hasn't eaten in over a week
My leaf insect is refusing to eat and its been over a week now. I've asked on other websites but I'm getting no help. She's only a nymph and she's displaying some signs of moulting but I'm getting worried that she's maybe just starving herself instead. Any help would be greatly appreciated You migh...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Falcate Orangetips
- Replies: 1
- Views: 303
Re: Falcate Orangetips
I saw several Falcate Orangetips (Anthocharis midea) today. It is usually the first butterfly of the spring brood in my area. Also saw a snout butterfly (Libytheana bachmanii) and a couple of UFOs. Time to dust off my net. I saw a Polygonia interrogationis just a few minutes ago. It reached 70 F (2...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 3:52 am
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Undet. Day-flying moth (Vietnam)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 692
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:47 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Undet. Day-flying moth (Vietnam)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 692
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...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 12:35 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1923
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...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:51 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1923
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.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Cricket or cockroach?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 621
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.
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:27 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10565
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 ...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: USA Insect Drawers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20448
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....
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:33 pm
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Jewel beetles photographed in 2023 and early 2024
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1319
Re: Jewel beetles photographed in 2023 and early 2024
Superb photos! All from Queensland?
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: USA Insect Drawers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20448
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?
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: The Porch Light
- Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20810
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...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: The Porch Light
- Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20810
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...
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:16 am
- Forum: The Porch Light
- Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20810
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....
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Porch Light
- Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20810
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...
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: The Porch Light
- Topic: Thai Sunray Canna
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20810
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 (...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Insect Photography & Video
- Topic: tiny caterpillars
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9642
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...
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Trogonoptera brookiana
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7118
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"...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9972
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Unknown Uganda Euphaedra sp.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9972
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 ...