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Post by tracehardin on Feb 27, 2011 12:26:52 GMT -8
Here are the Caligo memnon butterflies I recently received that eclosed as white eyed adults. Three emerged out of a shipment of 50. Out of the thousands of Caligo I've received I've never seen anything like this. What do you guys think? Attachments:
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Post by tracehardin on Feb 27, 2011 12:28:02 GMT -8
Here's another picture Attachments:
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Post by tracehardin on Feb 27, 2011 12:28:31 GMT -8
and one more Attachments:
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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 27, 2011 12:50:14 GMT -8
I saw color defects in beetles eyes, so why not in butterflies? Only problem I see is that they may loose their eye color when they die and the eyes dry out unless the back skin of the eye is that shiny white.
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Post by lordpandarus on Feb 27, 2011 16:59:23 GMT -8
They look kind of creepy. Zombie Caligos
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Post by boghaunter1 on Feb 28, 2011 12:07:41 GMT -8
Rather Spooky for sure!...  ... but interesting albinic eyes...never seen that before; thanks for the posting. John K. |
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Post by saturniidave on Feb 28, 2011 16:09:26 GMT -8
I wonder if they are blind?
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Post by vwman on Feb 28, 2011 17:24:09 GMT -8
I was wondering the same thing myself. Although, it could be the same thing with eye albinism in Drosophila flies. It doesn't necessarily result in blindness - just lack of pigment in the eye.
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Post by johnnyboy on Mar 2, 2011 4:16:15 GMT -8
They remind me of the old instructor in the TV series "Kung Fu". If they could talk they would probably address their caterpillars as "Grasshopper" .
The eyes of Bupestrid beetles, and Pepsis wasps, go white if they are exposed to heat (in dead specimens).
Johnny
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Post by dertodesking on Mar 2, 2011 13:26:05 GMT -8
Hi tracehardin,
Just curious what you've done with these? As people have said it's likely that once dead the eyes may lose their white colouration. I just wondered if you'd dispatched these and mounted them and if so...what colour are the eyes now?
Simon
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Post by tracehardin on Mar 8, 2011 9:19:30 GMT -8
Hi Simon,
I still have all the specimen preserved and they have indeed retained their white eyes.
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... but interesting albinic eyes...never seen that before; thanks for the posting.
