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Post by Fernando on Nov 30, 2012 9:28:29 GMT -8
^^ hahaha the sad truth!
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Post by Fernando on Nov 29, 2012 16:07:59 GMT -8
Wow. Just WOW! My mind has just been blown. Thanks for the video!
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Post by Fernando on Nov 29, 2012 13:52:27 GMT -8
I almost feel ashamed because of my ignorance, so sorry if the question is too silly, but I found these pictures in some site and I don't know whether these spiders are for real, or were just digitally colored:
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Post by Fernando on Oct 24, 2012 7:44:35 GMT -8
What species is it? I recently reared R. orizaba and the larvae got preeeetty big.
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Post by Fernando on Sept 28, 2012 5:23:17 GMT -8
I've seen this happen with a group of Papilio rutulus larvae I was rearing in close quarters. I didn't actually see the dirty deed, but the number of larvae kept getting smaller and smaller with no dead bodies left behind! This also has happened with Anthocharis sara larvae I was rearing. You have to separate those species while rearing in the early instars apparently. It's a big pain. So that means they ate even the "head shell" (sorry, don't know the technical name)?
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Post by Fernando on Sept 25, 2012 4:15:32 GMT -8
I'm giving them Quercus. Most of them are in L5 now, and they've been eating this since they hatched, so I guess the foodplant is fine. Well, anyway, at least now I know that this isn't as uncommon as I thought in first place
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Post by Fernando on Sept 24, 2012 14:40:28 GMT -8
Well, I just wanted to share this curious event I've just witnessed (I can't say I am an expert rearing saturniids, but I do have some experience, and this had never happened to me before): one A. luna larva was eating other alive! I separated them, and though the "eaten" one is still alive, I don't think it's gonna make it.
My hypothesis goes as follows: the "eater" had just moulted (L5), so maybe it thought the other larvae, which was considerably smaller, was its recently shed skin and started to chew it. Is that possible?
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Post by Fernando on Aug 29, 2012 4:54:57 GMT -8
Forgot to say that I finally got this book as a gift from my great friend John ("shadow"). It's just plain AMAZING, please do yourself a favor and buy it!
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Post by Fernando on Aug 28, 2012 12:57:08 GMT -8
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Post by Fernando on Aug 28, 2012 7:59:29 GMT -8
hahahaha "bizarre moth"? The guys that wrote that article definitely haven't seen too much moths in their lives On a side note, I have never been able to understand people that's afraid of moths. It just plain doesn't make sense to me, I think moths are very cute.
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Post by Fernando on Aug 14, 2012 11:23:40 GMT -8
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Post by Fernando on Aug 14, 2012 8:22:47 GMT -8
Wow! Definitely one of the most beautiful geometrids I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing!
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Post by Fernando on Aug 6, 2012 8:01:13 GMT -8
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Post by Fernando on Aug 3, 2012 17:34:13 GMT -8
No idea about the id, but just passed by to say WHAT A SHOT
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Post by Fernando on Aug 2, 2012 5:09:18 GMT -8
No one?
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