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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 7, 2017 22:16:53 GMT -8
Ah yes, my apologies Leptraps, just re read the other thread, 72 this coming may, and yes, excellent eyesight to spot hibernaculum.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 7, 2017 3:21:53 GMT -8
I had males coming down to investigate my green iPhone 5c whilst I was fishing on a large gravel pit complex, they either thought it was a female or another male to chase away, I hadn't noticed, but it was 4am when I arrived, that I had set my fishing gear up next to a large alder buckthorn bush, one of their larval foodplants. I did see a couple of females around but didn't see any egg laying going on.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 7, 2017 3:14:42 GMT -8
Sorry for the confusion, Leroy (Leptraps) I believe is 72 not you T.C. Though I have no idea as to your age, I wish you many years of searching for winter cocoons.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 6, 2017 20:24:19 GMT -8
Well, I am jealous. I am having trouble finding caterpillars, cocoons, and moths. I know that sounds crazy, but they are rarer in my area than 3 years ago. They have turned all the fields that were in may area from beautiful meadows to a bunch of darn cornfields for miles. I was pretty sad about the whole deal. Some species I haven't even seen in my area since. You are jealous! I certainly am, over here in the U.K especially in my area I think you would be hard pressed to find anything this time of year, we certainly don't have saturnidae just hanging in a tree or Limenitis to be found like this else I would be out all day every day I wasn't working, the ultimate collecting for mint condition specimens. At least for a 72 year old (think that's what you said on another thread) there is nothing wrong with your eyesight, very well spotted sir and I wish you all the best in rearing and hatching them. Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 6, 2017 12:29:32 GMT -8
But somehow it is also frustrating, I often have to think that assuming I will be able to go hunting till I am 80, that's only 53 summers left, only 53 times that you can try to be at the right spot at the right time to get the perfectly freshly emerged specimens. Then spread these 53 times over all the species that emerge at the same time, all the different localities, then you can perhaps only pick 20 species in your whole life where you will really be able to hit the perfect time. Or just trust on your luck that you accidentally are there. This year I had such one moment, when I was walking on a forest road and suddenly there were about 15 freshly emerged Gonepteryx rhamni females, I had never seen any before that time and never after and I went to that road every day for 30 days straight. It was just exactly the right time when they all emerged fed for the first time on flowers and then directly started laying eggs, and then you almost can't see them anymore flying around the trees without resting. Such moments are just magical, that's what I dream of during winter. Fresh out of pupae or hibernation? As this species emerges in summer, feeds for a short while and hibernates untill early spring when they mate and lay in April and May. Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Dec 21, 2016 7:37:56 GMT -8
Many many times I have been stung in the field both collecting and fishing, though the most painful sting is a couple of deals where I've not recieved what I paid for or sent specimens to swap with a so called "fellow entomologist", needless to say they never see anything from me anymore, money or swaps.. Insects you can squash easily other pests not so easy.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Nov 9, 2016 9:10:57 GMT -8
I agree Joe, we are all on this forum for the same reason, Entomology, the study of invertebrate of all kinds, I can assume an 8ft ape would have a backbone so has no place here, though I have had a good laugh, as regards the knock knock knocking, you guys have woodpeckers in the states right? I don't wish to offend anyone, but trying to force people to believe in something without proof is bound to wind folks up.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Nov 9, 2016 5:06:59 GMT -8
That's a one in a million ABB Adam, so to get it from many thousands ain't bad, below is my best two, I've had another 3 much less marked than these, including one female with only a tiny white streak and hint of black spot. I guess my first one is "less unique" ? Sorry Adam, couldn't resist! Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Nov 3, 2016 22:46:30 GMT -8
Yes, thanks Adam, this group confuses the hell out of me, apart from the data, what pointers do you look for?
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Nov 1, 2016 0:08:32 GMT -8
On this locality also flying normal Meandrusa lachinus (females with white stripes) in same time. Pavel Now that is VERY interesting to know. That means one of two things ... either we have two forms of the same species, or there are two different species. Adam. Or data is not as reliable as thought, I know Thanh does provide data as correct as he knows from his catchers, but I have found his collectors tend to move around quite a bit, indeed I have specimens of stichophthalma from him which I have since found out are from a different mountain range, he can only supply the data he's given, he does apologies and corrects it if questioned and it is wrong, also Thanh is very busy traveling around to his catchers and trying to set up catchers in new areas so most of the specimens are listed by his sister from boxes from his Sa Pa based collectors, these guys collect in Ha Giang, Yen Bai and Lau Chua provinces on probably half a dozen mountain ranges. In the past I've looked for stichophthalma eamsei from different mountain locations, which Thanh used to name in his listings, but his sister now only lists them as central, south or north Vietnam, which for me, trying to show geographical difference is impossible. Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 31, 2016 23:53:29 GMT -8
My apologies Adam, I copied the swallowtails.net spelling of macfarlanei which I've just noticed is correct in the species list but double I on the species page.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 30, 2016 23:04:29 GMT -8
Left specimen is Pathysa aristeus s.sp parmatus and the right is Graphium macfarlaneii s.sp cestius.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 28, 2016 21:58:34 GMT -8
The ABB.. View AttachmentI thought this was rather unique, untill another popped out with the ABB on the opposite hindwing and today another, less extreme specimen emerged. Rich I have yet seen a biparty aberration, one side with a form and another side with the other form like a biparty gynandro with forms that replaces the sex). Absolutely exceptional (unfortunetely I didnt take photo but may be it has been published) it was an Hypolimnas in hand of Jacques Hecq. I believe Adam has memnon females that he has reared which are half one form and half another if I'm not mistaken. Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 28, 2016 6:35:03 GMT -8
i bet most of the sittings are centred around tiny, remote Forrest towns / villages with a few empty hotels, b and b's, a little shop and a fuel station that serve a dozen locals a day then miraculously someone spots good old "apparently common" Bigfoot and suddenly the small town / village is a busy, bustling tourist spot for a few months or so and when it's all blown over, the original inhabitants of this place can all retire on the profits.
Rich
P.S, Leptraps, I can show you caracas, it's the capital city of Venezuela, a carcass on the other hand I can't help you with, don't you just hate predictive text.
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 28, 2016 5:43:50 GMT -8
The ABB.. I thought this was rather unique, untill another popped out with the ABB on the opposite hindwing and today another, less extreme specimen emerged. Rich
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