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Post by jackblack on Aug 9, 2011 13:56:01 GMT -8
OK no offence taken .As I say I`m new here not sure about some things and not a computer whiz either .
Yes Clark please move things to appropriate point.
It is an interesting subject I feel and I like to know what others think. Cheers
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Post by jackblack on Aug 9, 2011 2:07:28 GMT -8
As I suggested I may have posted add in wrong heading ,I don`t need you to tell me that ,I realise. I`m new here , I see someone is not happy about my comments and doesn`t care , goes on all the time he says, sorry I ever brought the subject up Mr sarcasm. A shame your comments could not be more positive/constructive but you obviously don`t care either , fine , your opinion . As a new member I`ll try and get it right next time . You could be a bit more helpfull instead of the heavy hand. ::)Anyway nobody is perfect , I only try. I could have said dealer bla bla bla and dealer bla bla bla are selling illegally imported and protected species , which would be a trading report , but not knowing my way round I thought to try and be a bit more diplomatic , can`t please everyone I suppose.
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Post by jackblack on Aug 9, 2011 0:39:38 GMT -8
Maybe I should have posted this thread on legal issues .Maybe I should not have even started it ? Good on ya Bill for being up front , I admire your character. Me too I was brought up to go the right way about things . I`m not surprised some people won`t comment . Their livelihood is at stake . But supporting the trade mentioned makes Government Dept`s crack down even more , everything becomes harder and harder. Soon people will be looking at insect traders like drug traders if things keep going the way they are I feel. Now our Gov`t down under is cracking down even more because of only one or two people .
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Post by jackblack on Aug 8, 2011 3:38:45 GMT -8
Hi Kahlid, Yes everyone one else almost surely has other intersts beside insects I`m a keen/mad fisherman when I`m not collecting insects fo myself or to sell to people on insect net or around the world . But I do know one fanatic who you can`t even get a word to unless its insects fanatical.
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Post by jackblack on Aug 8, 2011 3:09:33 GMT -8
I`m intersted to know what forum members opinions are about people/dealers selling illegally obtained specimens and selling protected species illegally exported that advertise on insectnet .com Although not Cities listed but protected in country of origin. No names mentioned of course , just interested in the views of people and what they think . And should various buisiness advertise their illegally obtained products ? Touchy subject and I`ll have people gunnin for me I suppose for asking these questions . Many people pertain to know nothing about it but its rife and out there .Where does one draw the line with our conservation ethics as a collector ? Hmmm. Hear no weevil , see no weevil , speak no weevil.
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Post by jackblack on Jul 22, 2011 0:09:12 GMT -8
Yep looks like a sphingid pupa , hatch it out and let us all know the sp
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Post by jackblack on Jul 21, 2011 23:45:07 GMT -8
I didn`t have to as there was no question they were alive . I spray pupa directly with water all the time over 30 years of breeding Leps of all sorts in Australia , no problems .Hatch rate is generally 95 to 99% Why wouldn`t you spray your pupa ? What sort of hatch rate do you have then ?
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Post by jackblack on Jul 20, 2011 3:07:21 GMT -8
How are the baby sticks going now ? I agree with info from Bichos 100% But when asking about help/ info for your sticks, would be good to know what species you are dealing with ?
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Post by jackblack on Jul 20, 2011 3:06:30 GMT -8
How are the baby sticks going now ? I agree with info from Bichos 100% But when asking about help/ info for your sticks, would be good to know what species you are dealing with ?
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Post by jackblack on Jul 20, 2011 2:55:51 GMT -8
Well how come all you guys are always chatting butterflies , I was starting to get the impression beetle enthusiasts on this site were a dying race .
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Post by jackblack on Jul 20, 2011 2:47:30 GMT -8
Papilio ulyses joesa in nth Qld can be seen flying in lots of places from canopy to knee level depending on the hight of the blossom at the time ., here in Innisfail after cyclone Larry a few years ago and all the blossom was blown to the gound the starving butterflies were feeding on the ground on wilted flowers they were so hungry !I never get tired of watching these beauties fluttering around my garden amongst the ornithoptera . As you guys out there are mostly butterfly enthusiasts anyone interested to see joesa from Nth Queensland in the wild , i`ll make some pics if you are . They are attracted to red or blue lures , I heard some years ago an enthusiast spotted a "red " specimen , not impossible I think, as I have seen red specimens of beetles the Cetoniinae that are only ever green but the red are extreme rarities one in many thousands of specimens .I`m itching to see a blue one of these beetles though . Ulysses rule
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Post by jackblack on Jul 19, 2011 1:24:37 GMT -8
Hey Makira , Whats that Rosenbergia ? sp on your name .
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Post by jackblack on Jul 19, 2011 1:03:17 GMT -8
Many years ago 25 approx I knew old Ray Straatman alias Krupten , he visited me regularly in Kuranda Nth Queensland where I lived, Ray was a bit of an eccentric well respected butterfly expert ,we discussed many things about life in general, he told me touch the pupa with your tongue if it is cold it is live , if room temperature it is dead . I bred many types of Lepidotera over the years raised the larva indoors , nothing required sunlight or light directly , most things always hatched for me , most important I found keep up humidity and spray pupa with water regularly . Jack
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Post by jackblack on Jul 11, 2011 4:28:21 GMT -8
My odd Lamprima I bred out had a minor male mandible and a major teledonte mandible on the opposite side , no not a gynandromorph sadly , as I mentioned I have seen several specimens in old collections like this and met the collectors now passed away , so nutrients may have had something to do with this , years ago when a number of such specimens were collected land clearing was going on forest was knocked down so less larva between logs more nutrients were more available till numbers bred up , more competetion for food , then beetles got smaller parasites were more rampant , habitat was reduced then so were the logs available for breeding ,specimens got smaller , but ever now and then the teledonte males are still there but never in numbers .But major males can still be found big bodies but not with the deer like major antlers which seem to be common in parts of PNG , I lived there as a boy and up in the mountains at Erumai Lamprima /Neolamprima occured but there in the high altitude I never saw a major teledonte male only green males of normal size males usually sitting on the side of tree trunks but I wasn`t a beetle collector in those days just an observer of nature as I grew up amongst it .
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Post by jackblack on Jul 7, 2011 2:29:07 GMT -8
Its an interesting subject re teledonte ect . Here in Australia nth qld where I live Prosopocoilus has major minor intermediates ect with mandible sizes I think its availability of food to the larva , also Phalocrognathus muelleri major males generally have longer antler like jaws but some have major body size and minor jaws but this I feel may be hereditary. I recently posted a pic of my favourite Lamprima spm male with teledonte /jaws these are not too common at all , yet in Australia we have a number of Lamprima species and only the nth Queensland ones some males are teledonte .I once reared one specimen from a larva and it had a teledonte mandible on one side and a normal mandible on the other side , I have seen specimens like this being collected also years ago but rarely , unfortunately I sold mine to a Japanese high roller collector some years ago , I couldn`t refuse his offer , but know only a matter of time I will come across another .I reared mine in the mushroom bottle and several other teledonte males at the same time.
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