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Post by marcingajewski on Jul 1, 2015 8:17:38 GMT -8
Some nice cabinets from the Paradox Company will do Mr. Fiolek is better in cabinets
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Post by nomad on Jul 1, 2015 9:13:39 GMT -8
I would have thought you would have had wall to wall cabinets Marcin. I am sure you work very hard photographing beautiful models. It is a hard life indeed.
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Post by marcingajewski on Jul 2, 2015 23:51:23 GMT -8
Hi , first ; Old nominal Priamus ,Chimera chimera (goldish abberant),Chimera Chimera Second ; Tithonus Misresiana ,Croesus Wallacei , Croesus Croresus , third; Victorae Rubianus Leg. Ted Archer ,O.p.Bornemanni,O.p Admiralitatus Marcin
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Post by timmsyrj on Dec 23, 2015 4:50:37 GMT -8
Deck the boards with Hypolimnas.. Merry Christmas. Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Dec 23, 2015 4:59:32 GMT -8
And these just taken off, many thanks to Joe Taylor for collecting these for me over the season in his bait trap, I have quite a few more specimens still to set that he caught for me, I wish we had stuff like this here in the U.K that collect themselves in bait traps, I guess we have a few but nothing I need. Rich
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Post by vabrou on Dec 23, 2015 7:14:53 GMT -8
timmsyrj--Ratheer common species in my bait traps and occasionally in my light traps. I note your statement "I wish we had stuff like this here in the U.K that collect themselves in bait traps, I guess we have a few but nothing I need". If you never ran a bait trap, how can you come to a conclusion as you state. I think you're statement is an unfounded supposition. I would urge you to actually run a bait trap, not just for one day, but rather for several years, then you can post images of the thousands of specimens you have taken that you thought you didn't need. I ran bait traps continuously for nearly 40 consecutive years, and during one 8 year period of running 8 bait traps, I never took less than 40,000 butterflies each and every year. And you don't just collect butterflies in those traps, I run them primarily for sphingidae and Catocala. This species: Basilarchia arthemis astyanax (F.) has a common name of 'red-spotted purple' in North America, but is not purple. And if you will note in one drawer in the bottom row of my specimens, there is an actual purple, red-spotted purple. Attachments:
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Post by vabrou on Dec 23, 2015 8:07:48 GMT -8
And by the way, just running bait traps with fermenting fruit, is not the only bait one can use. I collected here more than 100 individuals of one or two species of blue butterflies using ethylene glycol, water, and feces. I have never see any publication documenting a successful bait for blues. That mixture also captured two species of Sphingids and many dozens of species of coleoptera. One can experiment with all sorts of different substances, combinations, and some chemicals. E.g. ethyl acetate will attract large numbers of butterflies and some cerambycidae. Google the subject and you will surely find endless references. Start sewing up those bait traps now so they will be ready in the spring. Come to think about it, this month of December is often when my bait traps here fill up daily with some nymphalid butterflies
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Post by vabrou on Dec 23, 2015 8:36:55 GMT -8
oven loaded Attachments:
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Post by timmsyrj on Dec 24, 2015 4:29:11 GMT -8
" unfounded supposition" ? ?. Having lived in the U.K all my life and collected for 40 years, I have raised every single U.K butterfly species (which is less than 60 species) from egg to adult, either from collected females or purchased ova/larvae, and have more than enough or all for my collection needs and I have no interest in British moths, running a bait trap here would no doubt give me loads of specimens for my collection, all of which I either don't need as I have enough or have no interest in collecting. That was the basis of my comment, to have new species such as those in the photo, they may be common to you, but not me here.
Good luck finding your bait trap again if you hang one up in a British woodland, I've heard of rangers dismantling and removing light traps that they've come across in woodlands.
Rich
Red wine works very well for Charaxes jasius in olive groves in Spain, especially when poured over chopped banana and oranges, they get so drunk they can't fly off. You can't get any more relaxed than that.
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Post by vabrou on Dec 24, 2015 6:20:12 GMT -8
No problem Rich, I read your post which included the statement and it said "...I guess we have a few...." without further explanation, thus implying you don't know. One reading this simple statement takes it for face value, not realizing there was an unstated story behind your statement. I stand corrected.
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Post by Paul K on Dec 24, 2015 6:51:40 GMT -8
Limenitis arthemis does not occur in Europe so how that could be "rather common" . What is common in US it doesn't mean is common all around the world.
Paul
PS. Merry Christmas to everybody ( US included )
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Post by timmsyrj on Dec 24, 2015 7:36:50 GMT -8
No problem Rich, I read your post which included the statement and it said "...I guess we have a few...." without further explanation, thus implying you don't know. One reading this simple statement takes it for face value, not realizing there was an unstated story behind your statement. I stand corrected. No problem vabrou, but I do envy you guys, in the U.S and worldwide who can collect in this manor all these great nymphalidae species and I can certainly see the attraction of the Catocala and Saturnidae when they come to you instead of having to chase them, I guess where I am i will get maybe 5 nymphalidae, ( P.c-album, V.cardui, N.vanessa, I.io and A.urticae) nothing like what can be taken elsewhere in the world. I can only imagine the excitement of checking traps in the Amazon or Congo etc and obviously throughout Asia for Stichophthalma specimens. Rich
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Post by joee30 on Dec 24, 2015 10:14:35 GMT -8
Limenitis arthemis does not occur in Europe so how that could be "rather common" . What is common in US it doesn't mean is common all around the world Maybe not around the world, but it sure is common here in the U.S. Kinda like your Inachis Io, Vanessa cardui, and Aglais urticae.
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Post by Paul K on Dec 24, 2015 10:39:20 GMT -8
Limenitis arthemis does not occur in Europe so how that could be "rather common" . What is common in US it doesn't mean is common all around the world Maybe not around the world, but it sure is common here in the U.S. Kinda like your Inachis Io, Vanessa cardui, and Aglais urticae. I love them too. When I was a teenager I was chasing them in near by meadow back in Eastern Europe ( Poland ). Now I have collected few specimens of Limenitis arthemis in southern Ontario where we have two subspecies : Limenitis arthemis arthemis and L. arthemis astynaxas . They are apart about 200km .
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Post by vabrou on Dec 24, 2015 15:29:44 GMT -8
Rich, yes I too envy the entomologist in the tropical areas. I had a couple of opportunities to go collecting in Mexico, one which could have been years there. Never took the chance of uprooting an moving. I have always envisioned what the past 46 years would have been had I run my traps in tropical areas daily for 46 years.
Vernon
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