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Post by stapleton on Sept 8, 2017 18:21:00 GMT -8
ATTENTION, DEAR COLLEAGUES! Presently, several sellers are offering various Orn. victoriae specimens on eBay, some of them - for cosmic insane prices. Eagerly designating silly, stupid, and often illiterate "forms" in their listings, they don't say a word about one critically important aspect: the bulk of the specimens offered are SUPER-DWARFS, with the females not being an exception. In fact, the latter tend to belong with Microlepidoptera. Surely, you just can not guess how sad the truth is, until you receive the surprise package. So please, be warned...
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Post by exoticimports on Sept 15, 2017 9:41:33 GMT -8
Interesting. Of the thousands of Victoria I've seen, only one male was a dwarf. Those that Michael is raising in cages on Guadalcanal now- with nothing to bother them and plenty of food- are huge.
Chuck
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Post by stapleton on Sept 17, 2017 18:52:57 GMT -8
Apparently, these "top-rated" RE-sellers buy them dwarfs virtually for nothing. Poor uninformed buyers just can not imagine how things really stand and believe these are regular full-scale specimens... "Business", damn it...)))
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Post by nomad on Sept 24, 2017 12:12:48 GMT -8
I thought the attraction of birdwings was their large size.
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Post by exoticimports on Sept 25, 2017 4:36:57 GMT -8
When I was breeding leps I'd get dwarfs if the larvae were denied unrestricted access to food. With farming now becoming popular it would be no surprise to see dwarf specimens as a result of overcrowding, etc.
Chuck
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Post by stapleton on Oct 1, 2017 16:50:10 GMT -8
Move over, Rothschild!!!
Russia is and will always be the Motherland of victoriae triple/quadruple/etc. "EXTREMELY forms" and yet to be described super-endemic "subspecies"!!! WOW!!! OOH!!! YEAH, BABE!!! COOL!!! THUD!!!
Sorry dear customers, we can not take any responsibility for broken legs and "MOUSTACHE"!!!!
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