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Post by beetlehorn on May 30, 2018 15:03:00 GMT -8
Perhaps I should have posted this thread in the video section, but decided to put it here because it is butterfly collecting in it's purity. Here this guy illustrates how he attracts male Morphos within striking distance of his net. I saw this and thought it might be of interest to the collectors out there.
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Post by jhyatt on May 31, 2018 5:14:37 GMT -8
Nice clip, Tom. Any idea where this was taken? Looks vaguely Brazilian, but I couldn't quite make out the species he was getting. It's interesting that he uses the "female-colored" side of his lure as much as the blue side... never saw anyone use a brown lure before.
Thanks,
jh
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Post by Paul K on May 31, 2018 5:22:47 GMT -8
Nice clip, Tom. Any idea where this was taken? Looks vaguely Brazilian, but I couldn't quite make out the species he was getting. It's interesting that he uses the "female-colored" side of his lure as much as the blue side... never saw anyone use a brown lure before. Thanks, jh Person who’s in the video is a member of ICF forum. The place is in French Guiana and man’s name is Troy “bixia22” Paul |
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Post by nomihoudai on May 31, 2018 7:59:41 GMT -8
Where can one get the metallic blue color?
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Post by bobw on May 31, 2018 12:36:19 GMT -8
John
The blue lure works with the blue Morphos, the other side works with brown/orange species such as telemachus and hecuba. When I was in French Guiana a local collector showed me how to make one and it worked a treat with telemachus, even the blue morph.
Bob
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Post by leptraps on Jun 8, 2018 3:29:11 GMT -8
Many years ago while attending a Lep Soc meeting I saw this Silde Presentation of a Lepidopterist collecting Morpho's and Perpona's in Peru. He made images of Morpho's and Perona's for light gauge aluminium and painted/coated them with black and blue model airplane/automobile paint.
He attached them to a battery power mechanism the came with short wire (6"or 8") and a feathery device at the end of the wire. This devise was used as a toy to entertain house cats (My wife and I have cats and we actually had one of these devices. I drove our cats nuts!!). The feathery devise was removed and he attached his metal butterfly. He set it along a trail and started it. The device worked and he caught many Morpho's and Perpona's. He also attached the model butterflies to his hat and that worked as well.
He also had several other colored butterfly luers. Orange & Yellow for Peirids.
When I first began to travel to south Florida to collect in the mid-1970's, I used a similar method. I made paper butterflies from white card stock and colored them with colored pencils. I attached them to my hat and collected several Pheobis philea and Pheobis agarithe. And I will admit, it worked.
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