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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 28, 2016 5:29:08 GMT -8
As I've said earlier in this thread, I resisted the temptation to set the original 13 adults in the hope I would be rewarded with a larger series of variable specimens.. Well.... Plus probably another box worth still on the boards and a few just emerging in the greenhouse, if we don't get a frost they might lay more eggs in a week or so, nectar plants are not easy to find though. Spot the ABB ! Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 14, 2016 23:12:21 GMT -8
Hell !! I'm missing ALL those forms, I'd be happy with just one A- specimen never mind a short series like that..
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 5, 2016 3:08:01 GMT -8
Congratulations, I presume these are destined for the boards, or are you tempted to try hand pairing them if you get both sexes.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 2, 2016 22:00:55 GMT -8
The Bigfoots on the Western coast are noted as being very shy and non aggressive. Compared to the other camera hugging Bigfoot you see everywhere else photo bombing? Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Sept 14, 2016 4:03:24 GMT -8
If I ask for the leptraps special (hold the waitress ) will they know what I want? Do keep us informed Joe as to how long you manage to keep "hold" of the waitress and how long your arms are to achieve this mammoth task! Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Sept 9, 2016 9:04:06 GMT -8
I have read that Linnaeus is a lectotype, regarded as a representative of the species?
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Sept 9, 2016 3:11:09 GMT -8
Nessie is apparently one of only 2 species in the world without a type specimen, the other being us humans..
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Sept 9, 2016 3:08:18 GMT -8
We used to get both Vanessa gonerilla and itea livestock here in the U.K a few years back and they fed on the common nettle seen everywhere around here, not noticed either species available recently though.
You never really appreciate what's around you, I am the same with local British species, always looking for the more colourful foreign species.
New Zealand has some beautiful species of copper butterflies.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Sept 9, 2016 0:17:02 GMT -8
I have to agree with others on here, written evidence isn't proof, science fiction is written, the only reason we believe in dinosaurs is because we have hard (fossil hard) evidence, they have DNA from Bigfoot?? Did someone personally collect it from Bigfoot or did they find something and it turned out to be new, unrecorded DNA from an as yet undescribed species and as for these stick structures being proof of big foots existence then I have to say that more crop circles have been descovered, does this mean you also believe in aliens? I hope that one day this is proven and I'll hold my hands up and accept it, with good hard proof, if they are there we would have it by now, they couldn't survive as a species if there wasn't enough of a gene pool, in breeding would have occurred years ago and they would have died out. I would love to go and check this place out, sadly though I'm camped on the banks of Loch Ness with a telescope and tranquilliser gun.
Happy hunting
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Sept 6, 2016 10:13:30 GMT -8
The female of the bornemanni pair is not O.p.bornemanni, not even a priamus of any sort I'm sorry to say, it looks to me like a female of O.tithonus which must have been reared in Rabaul as it's not found on New Britain island.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Aug 30, 2016 6:12:23 GMT -8
Soon the harvest of specimens for the collection will begin and hopefully another generation, I have been trying alternative food sources and the horse radish leaves are great. Looking forward to next year and trying some different species, especially double or multi brooded species.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Aug 29, 2016 11:13:23 GMT -8
An update on these Canary Island large whites, firstly I have found that the larvae accept the leafs of horse radish (Armoracia sp.) secondly it is easy to see why these are found all year long in there native habitat, from the 13 adults I had flying, the last female died a couple of days ago I have loads of their offspring in various stages of development from a few egg batches still to hatch, through hundreds of caterpillars at various stages of development and a couple in the pre pupae stage this evening, as it's still August I should get at least another batch from the greenhouse, especially now I have another food source.
Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Aug 21, 2016 5:31:12 GMT -8
I have removed most of my traps from the feild with the exception of seven near my home. My wife has been hospitalized twice for Congestive Heart Failure in the last 21 days. She is currently recovering at home. I am probably finished collecting on my grand scale for the year. This will give me an opportunity to mount some of the back log in my freezers. (That could take another life time of I work at it.) I have my priorities and the wonderfull woman who puts up me needs me more than ever. I may "get among them" during Winter Moth time (Lithophane & Eupsilia) in November & December. I will still post on Insectnet. You may even get to see some of the Lepidoptera I will mount from some of my journeys out west. However, I saved the worst news for last. No more Waffle House dining for my wife and I. She must really watch her diet. On a good note, I can still get my afternoon nap! I wish your wife all the best and hope she has a speedy recovery Leptraps, even the greatest hobbies in the world (entomology and waffles houses) are nothing when compared to the health of family and friends. All the best, Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Aug 18, 2016 9:23:49 GMT -8
I don't think the catocala are after the droppings but are using the cage itself as cover. Night before last it was raining and I had 4 under it. Its also painted a dark brown. Im sure the like that as well. The brushfoots love under the rabbit cage. I've seen many different species. Could well be using it for cover, like the Mormo maura (old lady moth) in the bug identification section (I/D confirmation) they are using my log burner hut and sheltering in the roof. The hut to the right, behind the pond, to the left of that is my summer house where I chill out with a beer or two after work during the warmer months and light the log burner and sit in there when it's colder. Rich
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Post by timmsyrj on Aug 18, 2016 8:56:13 GMT -8
Are your pitcher plant in a natural habitat or planted in your yard or in a pot? Papaipema appasionatta feeds on picture plants. Mostly in individual pots standing in an inch of rainwater, several different species but mostly Sarracenia flava forms, along with a couple of Venus fly traps (Dionaea sp) and some sundews (Drosera sp). I have them inside my summer house, which is basically a raised deck, with a polycarbonate roof and walls made to resemble a log cabin on the inside and trellis covered fence panels on the outside. On a still warm night I leave the large front window and both doors open and the pull in all manor of insects, I found 65-70mm wingspan noctuidae in some of last years old pitchers. If I leave them outside the pitchers are flattened my the high winds we get as they are developing so I close them in when it's windy and open them up when it's calm so they can feed. I have some in my pond, eating the many midges around there, most of the pitchers are wind battered though. You do need to open the doors and window when they are in flower in early spring, they give off a very pungent smell, like week old pee. Rich Thought I would add a few photo's to help with the above description of my summer house.. And the 0.8m high moth eater flava sp
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