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Post by miguel on Jun 8, 2020 9:51:28 GMT -8
I put the box with the butterflies or moths inside the freezer for a few days. If you freeze a wooden box of specimens it is advisable to put the box inside a large plastic bag and seal it before putting it in the freezer. It is very important to leave the box sealed inside the bag for at least 24 hours after removing it from the freezer before taking it out of the bag in order to allow the whole box to return to room temperature. If you take it out of the bag when still cold humidity will be absorbed by the box, and if it isn't completely airtight humidity will also be absorbed by the specimens. Adam. Thanks Adam for the advice ,I have to say that I don´t use the plastic bag but until now(I´ll knock on wood)I have not apreciate humidity,boxes are very hermetic,but I´ll begin to put them in the box like you say.
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Post by miguel on Jun 4, 2020 12:22:18 GMT -8
First of all I take a look in the box looking if I see something strange,in my experience the moths are more delicate than butterflies to get intruders in their bodies,I put the boxes at least 2 times in the year.
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Post by miguel on Jun 3, 2020 9:27:12 GMT -8
I put the box with the butterflies or moths inside the freezer for a few days.
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Post by miguel on Mar 23, 2020 9:47:36 GMT -8
Here in Spain we have now more than 2100 deaths and more than 33000 infected and growing fast.
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Post by miguel on Mar 16, 2020 9:57:35 GMT -8
Some of those Speyeria are equals like the european Argynnis
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Post by miguel on Mar 14, 2020 12:53:29 GMT -8
Miguel,just go to McDonalds and ask for extra napkins....... I'm heading to a fossil and crystal dig on Monday. Good things that fuel prices are down and it won't be crowded at the mine. All the pubs and restaurants are closed here for at least 15 days
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Post by miguel on Mar 14, 2020 9:54:54 GMT -8
This morning I went tothe market near my home,people fighting for a piece of meat,no milk to buy and of course no toilet paper(I really need it)I had feel foreign shame of how many stupid people is living in our world.
Miguel
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Post by miguel on Dec 24, 2019 5:07:33 GMT -8
I don't know if someone has had the same experience as me as I saw yesterday in eBay,I was looking for various butterflies on eBay and suddenly I saw a very familiar envelopes for me in a british ebay page,somebody with that I made exchanged butterflies in the past is selling my butterflies there,I don't if this is a common thing.
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Post by miguel on Nov 5, 2019 10:02:14 GMT -8
I don´t remember in my years watching butterflies a number so big of butterflies migrating here in my small part of the Spanish mediterranean,very big numbers of Vanessa cardui in company of a few Vanessa atalanta have stayed around two weeks flying around the ivies.
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Post by miguel on Sept 2, 2019 11:45:29 GMT -8
I´m tired of people telling and thinking that they love more nature by the thing that they go out and make photos and do not collecting,maybe they kill more insects with their cars than me with my net.
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Post by miguel on Aug 31, 2019 0:23:23 GMT -8
Yes,so many years ago I was collecting in a mountain and two persons arrived to the place where I was and throot me with to reportme to the local autorities,I wasn´t worried cause I was outside a Park and the people concerned to protect that place knew that I was there collecting.
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Apatura
Jul 21, 2019 11:30:01 GMT -8
Post by miguel on Jul 21, 2019 11:30:01 GMT -8
Apatura clytie is only a ssp.of A.ilia
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Post by miguel on Jul 2, 2019 11:31:18 GMT -8
You are lucky,you have many more species than here in East of Spain that my Saturnidae season endend when Saturnia pyri and Graellsis isabelae ended their life circle at the end of may
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Post by miguel on May 14, 2019 11:23:32 GMT -8
More tan 20ºhere,last week I saw again from so many years Melanargia occitánica,sadly is more tan 6 hours by car from my home.
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Post by miguel on Apr 21, 2019 2:11:20 GMT -8
Here in eastern part of Spain now we have the typical february weather but one week ago you could see Papilio machaon,Iphiclides podalirius,Pieris brassicae and rapae, Anthocharis euphenoides,Leptidea sinapis,Glaucopsyche melanops,Nymphalis polychloros...
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