grasshopper
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Hi Steve, Perfectly set and fantastic species.
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Post by grasshopper on Jun 19, 2012 2:11:26 GMT -8
Hi there, Just wanted to share what is on the setting board at the moment, Please show us all what you are all doing at the moment, It is always great to see what other collectors are busy with. Regards, Lance. Attachments:
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grasshopper
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Hi Steve, Perfectly set and fantastic species.
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Post by grasshopper on Jun 19, 2012 2:13:03 GMT -8
Here is another one on the boards. Attachments:
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Post by lepidofrance on Jun 19, 2012 6:14:18 GMT -8
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Post by redpacu on Jun 19, 2012 10:24:54 GMT -8
Eastern Andes lowland Attachments:
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Country: UGANDA
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Post by papillon on Jun 20, 2012 4:22:43 GMT -8
Papilio rex franciscae from northern Uganda ppillon Attachments:
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Post by waynemeat on Jun 22, 2012 2:17:19 GMT -8
have to say love these Cant wait to start all this my self one day ..
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Post by thanos on Jun 25, 2012 21:07:53 GMT -8
Nice guys ! Here some rare, big and magnificent females of Limenitis populi, which I collected in N.Greece recently ! Thanos Attachments:
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Post by bugboys3 on Jun 29, 2012 8:45:03 GMT -8
Grasshopper, I believe that your Papilio glaucus male is actually a female. The males of that species do not have that much blue coloration on the lower wings.
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grasshopper
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Hi Steve, Perfectly set and fantastic species.
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Post by grasshopper on Jul 1, 2012 1:33:39 GMT -8
Hi Chris, Yeah your correct, I incorrectly named the photo a male
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Post by lordpandarus on Jul 4, 2012 13:45:10 GMT -8
The Heliconius on the bottom board with the orange and yellow forewing band, what ssp is it and where does it come from?
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Post by lepidofrance on Jul 12, 2012 3:25:49 GMT -8
All, moths & butterflies, from French Guiana (November, 2011). Moths : Copiopteryx semiramis semiramis female Arsenura thomsoni male Eacles barnesi male Butterflies : Morpho menelausMorpho deidamia deidamiaMorpho hecubaAttachments:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2012 8:03:14 GMT -8
I would love to see hecuba in the wild, what a sight that must be, some of my specimens are HUGE.
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Post by timsbugs on Jul 12, 2012 8:21:16 GMT -8
Calling them down from high up in the tree tops is something I will never forget! They just keep getting bigger and bigger as they make their decent.
Tim
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Post by lepidofrance on Jul 12, 2012 14:10:16 GMT -8
Normally, Morpho hecuba flies high, very high, over 10 or 12 meters above ground and one is accustomed to see it, against the light, from below (always in good weather, the hottest hours of the day between 11 AM and 1 or 2 PM). The first time I saw a fly at 1.50m above the ground, huge beast to fly slow and quiet, I have first (few seconds) not understood what it was!! Then I stood still in admiration! One must have seen it at least once in a lifetime entomologist .... Morpho telemachus flies a little lower, but still above the handle of the longest net (including the BioQuip net with his six handles!). We can shake the net (after several hours of this exercise with the six handles net, muscle pain, shoulder and arm, guarantees!), the butterfly does not care and continues to quietly flying ! Single method: capturing using the lure. In Cacao (this is a village in French Guyana inhabited by Hmong people from Laos after 1975), the local collectors (Hmong origin) uses the correct lure and handle it the right way: amazing how a M. hecuba or M. telemachus makes a plunge directly into the net!! I tried: it works. But we must acquire the right "hand" ... In the photo: a young Hmong woman and two children (near Cacao). Before me, the three of them in less than an hour (one half hour of rain, only a maximum of 30 minutes of collecting), they collected a dozen of M. telemachus, several rhetenor and twenty (at least) of M. adonis! The great miracle of this track (near Cacao) is that, despite the enormous collections made by local collectors (for commercial sale), there are always many Morphos!! It is true that it is mainly males who are captured. Attachments:
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Post by lepidofrance on Jul 12, 2012 14:24:36 GMT -8
Note that local collectors use a lure both sides: - Blue face: menelaus, adonis, helenor, achilles huebneri- Orange face: telemachus ( telemachus telemachus or telemachus marcellus) For hecuba, the lure is still different, even for rhetenor. Outside french Guyane, the blue lure is excellent with M. aega, M. anaxibia, M. menelaus coeruleus, Morpho epistrophus epistrophus, etc. Attachments:
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