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Post by wollastoni on Jul 23, 2015 12:13:06 GMT
Welcome Alan ! I would be very pleased to see some pictures of your phasmid collection and to see some pictures of NZ insects (especially endemic lepidoptera species).
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Post by johnsonsau on Aug 5, 2015 3:36:43 GMT
Hi everyone,
I am Johnson, 30 from Malaysia. Very new and learning with interests in Cerambycidae and mantises. I am also a part time ebayer. Most glad to be part of the community here and hope to learn from everyone!
Warm greetings from Malaysia!
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Post by wollastoni on Aug 5, 2015 9:05:40 GMT
Hello Johnson, welcome here !
It would be a pleasure to see some pictures of your Cerambycidae and of interesting Malaysian collecting spots.
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payam1982
New Aurelian
Posts: 9
Country: Iran
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Post by payam1982 on Sept 1, 2015 7:02:27 GMT
Hello to everyone ; My name is " Payàm " and I`m from Persia . I v`e been studying Persian butterflies and the neighbor countries ( Middle East , Near East , Caucasus and Transcaucasia ) since 1996 . I tried to learn Lepidopterology academically and studied many text books and papers in taxonomy , ecology , ethology , biogeography , botany , classic and molecular genetics , phylogeny , cladistics etc. My collection on the Persian butterflies is not the most complete ( I guess the best ones belong to my dear friends and colleagues , Mr Alirèzà Nàdèri , Dr. Wolfgang Eckweiler and Dr. Wolfgang ten Hagen ) but , I have the greatest Lepidopterological library in whole country . I believe Mr Gian Cristoforo Bozano is the best Lepidopterologist in our time thus , in so many cases I follow his taxonomic arrangements . My goals in Palearctic region are :
- A complete preliminary and then molecular study on the genus Colias Fabricius 1807 ( My main interest ) ; - A molecular study ( mtDNA & nDNA ) on the for clarification of the objective status and distribution of Pontia daplidice - edusa complex ; - A molecular study on the Pieris napi - bryoniae in Middle and Near East , Caucasus and Transcaucasia ; - Molecular studies on the Persian Nymphalidae by cooperation with Dr. Niklas Wahlberg ( hope he accepts ! ) ; - A molecular study on the following genera : Zerynthia , Allancastria , Archon for subspecific ( or maybe cryptic specific ) clarification ; - And a molecular study on the all Palearctic populations of Papilio machaon for subspecific clarification .
By the way , I have some interests in exotic Lepidoptera too , such as subgenus Achillides Hbn. ( bianor - dehaanii - ryukyuensis - amamiensis group mostly ) and the genus Morpho Fabricius 1807 .
Finally , I want to release my most sincere thanks to my friends who let me know about this nice forum and invited me here ; I also want to thank all members for reading these lines and hope to make many good communications and friendships here . Thank you all for accepting me !
With all my respect ; Payàm .
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goust
New Aurelian
Posts: 1
Country: Croatia
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Post by goust on Sept 5, 2015 17:08:31 GMT
Hello! I am Toni from Croatia. My passion are butterflies and moths from Balkan, and Europe. I hope to learn a lot new stuff from this forum and from all of you
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Post by wollastoni on Sept 5, 2015 17:27:32 GMT
Welcome Toni !
The ICF is a great place to learn and share !
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Post by spiderman on Oct 6, 2015 16:31:04 GMT
Hi everyone I am new hear to this forum. My thanks to Oliver for the invite. I am Spiderman, that was the first name that came into my head when I had to choose a username, well in addition to insects I do like spiders, especially Tarantulas. OK, a bit about me, my real name is James Wright, think some of you may know me from many of the Facebook insect groups. I am interested in most fields of entomology, but mainly lepidoptera. I have been collecting since about the age of 10 (mid 1960s) a very long time ago. As you could imagine over this time I have built up a fairly impressive collection of specimens from around the world. These days I do not do much collecting, but still maintain an active interest in the subject.
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 6, 2015 17:35:21 GMT
Good to see you here, James. Hope to see that fairly impressive collection of specimens on the Forum.
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Post by nomad on Oct 6, 2015 17:35:27 GMT
Nice to see you hear James, welcome to the forum
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Post by trehopr1 on Oct 6, 2015 18:07:06 GMT
A warm welcome to you James ! Look forward to photo's of your collection. I recently posted some photo's of tarantulas from my own collection as I have long had a passing interest in them. They are in the "Insects and other arthropods" section. Hope you like em'. Enjoy the forum.
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Post by poisonarrow on Oct 9, 2015 14:57:50 GMT
Greetings,
I am Benjamin Harink, 33 years old, and nowadays a bit of an everything collector. I am not sure when I started getting interested in insects, according to my parents, I have always been interested in all the things crawling. However, I did get started in beetles when I had to spend a summer in one place in Orange County and while being bored at the pool happened to see a Cotinis mutabilis, which must have been the most exciting beetle I had seen alive until then. I caught a few, bred them unsuccessfully when back home in Germany, and was hooked. I did always breed and rear a lot of beetles, but had to stop when I started working and moved on to live in Bangalore, India for 3 1/2 years. After that Switzerland, where it was beetle breeding again, and now since 2 years California, where the focus is more on local butterflies. While my key focus and passion is Lucanidae and Cetonidae, I am nowadays not interested in purchasing insects any more, and collect only what I can find myself or exchange with others. I found that the ability to buy a lot of specimen (the advantages of working as opposed to studying) somehow spoiled the hobby, and also felt that some of the prices are just to high. The things that are missing in my Lucanidae collection are now all hard to come by, small and expensive, so I opted to also open myself up for other groups. I did collect in quite a few countries, and really came to love butterflies when in India, where beetles were very seasonal, and difficult to find, whereas Butterflies were mostly easy photo subjects. I guess I will never forget the first Papilio buddha and P. dravidarum, the first of which escaped all photography efforts, the second of was luckily mudpuddling and easier approached. Nowadays, I do collect both beetles and Lepidoptera where ever I go and am allowed to.
I have been reading this forum quite a bit and enjoy the combined knowledge of so many enthusiasts, i do hope to be able to help a bit on beetles, and also the rearing sections. My page is beetle-breeding.ch, which some of you might have seen already.
Cheers Ben
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Post by nomad on Oct 9, 2015 16:41:54 GMT
Welcome to the forum Ben.
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Post by timmsyrj on Oct 9, 2015 17:24:44 GMT
A warm welcome to all the recent newbies, I rarely look at this section I have to admit so my apologies to those who joined a while ago for being late with my welcome message, I hope you all will find interesting topics and debates and feel the urge to start your own or join in with the rest of us, we all enjoy seeing photo's of specimens that others have and collecting trip stories are always a good read.
Rich
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Post by exoticimports on Oct 10, 2015 19:22:59 GMT
Hi all,
I'm visiting from Clark's forum. Based in USA, I travel a lot. In the old days I did a lot of field work, but now have a young daughter and for the last few years, while I still travel extensively, I have no time to play in the jungle.
I maintain a reference collection, but do not consider myself a collector (though anyone else would!) My favorite place is Solomon Islands which has incredible opportunity to turn up new species, and aside from that I love the Pacific, where I sit right now.
I have a weakness for Ceratocampinae (and have LeMaire's book) and must admit- very rarely I'll buy a specimens. Now you know.
Thanks,
Chuck
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Post by nomad on Oct 11, 2015 8:23:09 GMT
Welcome to the forum Chuck.
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