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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2011 18:24:13 GMT -8
Lastly.....(sorry about these).....watching some 70 S. cynthias emerge after rearing them from ova. Attachments:
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Post by lordpandarus on Feb 24, 2011 15:39:41 GMT -8
it's a pure hobby for me.
but I do like to read on the specimens I buy to know where they live, the life cycle...
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Post by papilio28570 on Feb 24, 2011 21:38:39 GMT -8
Glad you mentioned wanting to know more about the specimens you purchase because I would like to find a web site that really gives a good description of the insects life. Like what sort of habitat do they fly in; e.g. dense forest, open grasslands, woodland borders, mountainous slopes or meadows, lowland meadows, urbanization. What sort of flight pattern do the present; slow & relaxed, rapid and darting, soaring in the canopy or ground level, etc etc. Do they visit flowers or rotting fruit, mud puddles, etc etc. Are they found in colonies only associated with larval food plant or evenly distributed over wide areas and varying habitats. So much information is lacking out there. I'd like to experience my specimens even if only vicariously through someone else's eyes.
Maybe we could start a thread or Clark could set up a separate forum here on InsectNet....nice if it was searchable by species too. Or perhaps there already exists such a web space I am ignorant of.
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Post by fred2802 on Feb 25, 2011 1:59:32 GMT -8
Hello,
For my part at age of 8, breeding already Papilio machaon, Pieris brassicae and Inachis io from my garden.
And in fact I realy started 1 year later to pin specimens once I saw at a friends home an old box of pinned leps from his mother young age and had been very interested by the Gonepteryx rhamni and Colias crocea. I remember having proposed to the mother to sell me the Colias crocea male for around 10 euros.
A couple of years later I encounter an old collector who possesed a private museum and teacher me how to pin specimens on spreedingboards and the real material to use.
Fred
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Post by lordpandarus on Mar 6, 2011 11:14:35 GMT -8
Glad you mentioned wanting to know more about the specimens you purchase because I would like to find a web site that really gives a good description of the insects life. Like what sort of habitat do they fly in; e.g. dense forest, open grasslands, woodland borders, mountainous slopes or meadows, lowland meadows, urbanization. What sort of flight pattern do the present; slow & relaxed, rapid and darting, soaring in the canopy or ground level, etc etc. Do they visit flowers or rotting fruit, mud puddles, etc etc. Are they found in colonies only associated with larval food plant or evenly distributed over wide areas and varying habitats. So much information is lacking out there. I'd like to experience my specimens even if only vicariously through someone else's eyes. . Yes that's exactly what I'm talking about. Not complex genetic stuff but notes on habitat, lifestyle... Sometimes I get a new specimen and wonder why it was so hard to get and other things |
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