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Post by timmsyrj on Sept 9, 2016 3:08:18 GMT -8
We used to get both Vanessa gonerilla and itea livestock here in the U.K a few years back and they fed on the common nettle seen everywhere around here, not noticed either species available recently though.
You never really appreciate what's around you, I am the same with local British species, always looking for the more colourful foreign species.
New Zealand has some beautiful species of copper butterflies.
Rich
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Post by robert61 on Oct 26, 2016 8:57:12 GMT -8
Worldwide Butterflies(UK) used to offer few years ago Vanessa gonerilla and I bred 3 Generations per year with any Urticae you could find on the fields in Germany. It is very easy to get them laying eggs, usually it took up to 3 weeks till they startet mating but they came from alone to the sugar water and I put potted Urticae in the Cage and all in the full sun but you Need to take care that a part of the Cage is in the shadow.
Now I have the 4th Generation of Nepalese Aglais kaschmierensis .
Robert
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 28, 2016 5:29:08 GMT -8
As I've said earlier in this thread, I resisted the temptation to set the original 13 adults in the hope I would be rewarded with a larger series of variable specimens.. Well....    Plus probably another box worth still on the boards and a few just emerging in the greenhouse, if we don't get a frost they might lay more eggs in a week or so, nectar plants are not easy to find though. Spot the ABB ! Rich |
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 28, 2016 5:43:50 GMT -8
The ABB..  I thought this was rather unique, untill another popped out with the ABB on the opposite hindwing and today another, less extreme specimen emerged. Rich |
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Post by africaone on Oct 28, 2016 9:48:13 GMT -8
The ABB.. Download AttachmentI thought this was rather unique, untill another popped out with the ABB on the opposite hindwing and today another, less extreme specimen emerged. Rich I have yet seen a biparty aberration, one side with a form and another side with the other form like a biparty gynandro with forms that replaces the sex). Absolutely exceptional (unfortunetely I didnt take photo but may be it has been published) it was an Hypolimnas in hand of Jacques Hecq. |
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 28, 2016 21:58:34 GMT -8
The ABB.. Download AttachmentI thought this was rather unique, untill another popped out with the ABB on the opposite hindwing and today another, less extreme specimen emerged. Rich I have yet seen a biparty aberration, one side with a form and another side with the other form like a biparty gynandro with forms that replaces the sex). Absolutely exceptional (unfortunetely I didnt take photo but may be it has been published) it was an Hypolimnas in hand of Jacques Hecq. I believe Adam has memnon females that he has reared which are half one form and half another if I'm not mistaken. Rich |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 31, 2016 6:51:06 GMT -8
Rich is correct, but I have only ever seen a single specimen. Here's a photo of the specimen when it had just emerged:  Adam. |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 31, 2016 6:55:30 GMT -8
I should add that I have reared very many thousands of Papilio memnon and only ever seen anything like this once.
Adam.
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Post by timmsyrj on Nov 9, 2016 5:06:59 GMT -8
That's a one in a million ABB Adam, so to get it from many thousands ain't bad, below is my best two, I've had another 3 much less marked than these, including one female with only a tiny white streak and hint of black spot.  I guess my first one is "less unique" ? Sorry Adam, couldn't resist! Rich  |
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Post by palikan on Jul 6, 2017 0:24:10 GMT -8
This year I bred A.paphia. (Last days hatched) I gave about 30 pupae to my friend. Yesterday he sent me a photo of A.paphia which is unique. It is a gynandromorph 1/2 dark-valesina form, 1/2 normal male. But that's not all - it's also aberration !!! Unfortunately, this butterfly is damaged - the right side is distorted. Even so it is a unique specimen !!! I never seen anything like this. Pavel  |
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