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Post by jshuey on Mar 2, 2012 8:57:17 GMT -8
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Post by lucanidae25 on Mar 2, 2012 16:23:14 GMT -8
A perfect example for the difficulty facing with collecting in Australia but this story is to the extrem. Nothing is really easy to catch here except fly and mosquito. Another example is Temognatha barbiventris were found at 1982 and no specimen was found till 2005. There're so many species are like this.
What this story hasn't mentioned is the cost that needs for those trips. It would be between 2000-3000us per person per trip within Australia and this is just for traveling, accommodation, food and hairing a boat......... not even includes the labor of the individuals that's doing the collecting and permits to climb Ball's Pyramid.
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Post by papilio28570 on Mar 2, 2012 17:01:59 GMT -8
I guess inbreeding is no longer a problem for this surviving group.
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Post by lucanidae25 on Mar 2, 2012 17:12:49 GMT -8
I don't think inbreeding would be a problem, they were from a very small Island and small gens pool in the 1st place.
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Post by anthony on Mar 2, 2012 17:58:01 GMT -8
Very interesting with a good ending, thanks for the information.
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Post by jackblack on Mar 4, 2012 2:44:36 GMT -8
Yes but it was all Gov`t funded , so no cost to the individual.
A great rescue /success story .
I`m awaiting my first eggs of this sp at the moment and look forward to enjoy the thrill of rearing such a rarity and feel the thrill the collectors did when they brought back this species from the brink of extinction .
This species was truley endangered .
As for all the other species Lucanidae talks about , they are still all out there you just have to go and look for them , like Pseudoteania frenchi , only known from the type specimen , I collected one by accident as it landed in a tree above me one day , it only took me 15 yrs to find them , know the whole biology now , could collect them anytime , but the thrill of the chase is over for those , time to get on with the next species and the thrill of the hunt .
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Post by exoticimports on Mar 14, 2012 9:28:08 GMT -8
Wow. Absolutely wow. Who would have imagined?
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Post by jackblack on Mar 16, 2012 1:03:56 GMT -8
Re comment above about Temog barbiventris , many buprestids have a long life history as a larva , pers comments Shelley Barker Castiarina specialist when I asked him about a new sp I collected and he named after my wife , go through the same area every year and have never seen them again , so maybe it will be another 10 yrs till they come out again .
Re Phasmids , this Lord Howe Isle phasmid became extinct on the main Isle because of man but somehow managed to survive on Balls Pyramid a refuge , has nothing to do with why some other species are encountered seldom like some Buprestids , Phasmidae reproduce every year where ever they are .
Got my eggs now and they should hatch in 4 months I`m told , exciting .
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