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Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:10 pm
by mothman55
adamcotton wrote: Tue Mar 18, 2025 6:48 pm
I seem to remember reading that males of
O. priamus poseidon are orange immediately on emergence from the pupa, and turn green as the wings dry. Can anyone confirm this?
Adam.
I think you may be right Adam, in some cases. When I raised Cairn's birdwings, I do remember one having a reddish orange sheen over the green just after emergence. It soon disappeared once dry. I have seen a photo of this on the internet some time ago, and when I saw the photo it reminded me of what I had seen. I remember hoping it would retain this colour and be something very special, but alas, it soon disappeared. I just did an internet search looking for this photo which displayed this phenomenon, but I can't find it. I reared a number of males, and only recall seeing this once. Perhaps it only lasts for a few minutes during the drying and as they typically have their wings folded while drying, possibly it would only be visible if they were disturbed and opened their wings briefly.
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:32 pm
by eurytides
Immediately after eclosion, there might be a tiny amount of moisture on the surface of the scales. This could affect the wavelengths of light that constructive/destructively interfere, altering the colour we see, like the shifting rainbow on the surface of a soap bubble.
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:51 pm
by papiliotheona
The laws are stupid, and Limmer is stupider for deliberately breaking them and helping to give us all even more of a black eye. Two things can be right at the same time!
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 6:33 pm
by Chuck
papiliotheona wrote: Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:51 pm
The laws are stupid, and Limmer is stupider for deliberately breaking them and helping to give us all even more of a black eye. Two things can be right at the same time!
That is a truism.
I had the "You can be right, or you can be happy" talk with my daughter when she was about 8 YO. A teacher had taken points off a paper, saying my daughter was wrong. Of course she wasn't wrong. And in fact 210,000 Google returns backed us up. But we had The Talk, and I warned her about the ramifications of being right. Yet she elected to school her teacher, and as a result the teacher hated her the rest of the year. Limmer may have been right, but I don't think he's happy.