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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 23, 2017 15:28:23 GMT
One day in eastern Laos I was catching butterflies at Phou Pa Man when I got dive bombed by Byasa laos. It was very strongly attracted to the bright pink velvety "T-Mobile" logo across my chest on my navy blue football training top. T-Mobile was the shirt sponsor at the time, but I doubt that B. laos wanted to make a phone call.
Adam.
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Post by jmg on Oct 23, 2017 23:22:13 GMT
Phou Pa Man: near Attopeu ?
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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 24, 2017 15:42:20 GMT
No, Attapeu is in the far south of Laos near the Cambodian border, and Byasa laos is not found near there. Phou Pa Man is further north, it is the mountain next to Nahin (Ban Koun Kham). I was collecting on the road (highway 8) which forms the pass across the lower elevation (about 470m) of the mountain westwards between Nahin and Ban Koun Ngern. Byasa laos is only known from the limestone hills there and southwards to Thakhek. Interestingly it does not occur in the limestone hills further east along highway 8 to the west of Lak Sao, nor on the Vietnamese border east of there.
Adam.
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Post by exoticimports on Oct 25, 2017 12:23:26 GMT
Since we've already strayed from morphos...
I thought myself quite brilliant when I took shiny blue material to Solomon Islands with the express intent to lure P. Ulysses. However, in the field it didn't work at all. Then we spotted a male attacking a faded light blue beer can. We picked up the can and carried it around held high, and discovered that it was the perfect color to lure Ulysses. Sadly, I did not save the can.
Chuck
oh, and screw Facebook
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 25, 2017 15:30:55 GMT
I thought myself quite brilliant when I took shiny blue material to Solomon Islands with the express intent to lure P. Ulysses. However, in the field it didn't work at all. Then we spotted a male attacking a faded light blue beer can. We picked up the can and carried it around held high, and discovered that it was the perfect color to lure Ulysses. Sadly, I did not save the can. I have efficiently lured Papilio ulysses in Biak with RED color (same for Ornithoptera priamus teucrus).
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Post by satyrinae on Oct 26, 2017 6:59:32 GMT
The best Morpho lure of all is to catch a Morpho in bad quality and use it as lure. The results are astonishing....34 specimens in 10 days, and I missed quite a few because if you don't catch them upon first try, most do not return back.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Oct 26, 2017 12:01:19 GMT
Similarly if you bait with urine on mud or wet sand at the edge of a stream it is best to place one or two dead butterflies (white, yellow or pale blue are good) on the urine, it really helps pull live ones down much more quickly than just the urine smell.
Adam.
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Post by jmg on Oct 29, 2017 23:56:07 GMT
Photo : Pieridae collected and left on a sand shore of the rio Amacayacu (near the Amazon river and 70 km West of Leticia, Colombia), October, 1st, to lure others butterflies including Papilionidae and Baeotus deucalion. Without urine ! Good results. First newcomer : Marpesia chiron (on the left).
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Post by jmg on Oct 30, 2017 0:25:21 GMT
"The best Morpho lure of all is to catch a Morpho in bad quality and use it as lure. The results are astonishing....34 specimens in 10 days"
Right ! Mainly for M. rhetenor. But, with a blue lure (not a Morpho in bad quality), it was 25 or 26 M. telemachus (blue and orange forms) in a single morning. The second day, I stopped to collect this species (French Guyane).
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Post by bixia22 on Jan 11, 2018 22:06:43 GMT
I also have some vids on youtube on how to use these lures in French Guiana. Also read the comments, I put info on what color lure to use, what time of the year, time of day, wheather...Do a search on 'how to catch morpho butterflies'. I put theseonline back in 2015, the vids are from just one day of hunting, I should of done more, but I am more of a 'hike by my self,be quite, and the jungle will come alive right in front of you', and trying to work a camera at the sametime, I tend to miss this transition. The body go-pro was better, but it ran out of power fast.
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Post by bixia22 on Jan 11, 2018 22:25:28 GMT
As far as using a live butterfly as a lure, see one of my vids on youtube, I use the lure to attract a menelaus, and keep it flying around me to try to attract other ones, but I never got another one to come in. I only tried the one time, so maybe if I keep at it, it would work.
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Post by bixia22 on Jan 11, 2018 22:39:27 GMT
No face book, no nothing, We are lucky i am even on a forum, most likly want last long, so ask your questions now, I have to get back to the field.
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Post by jmg on Jan 12, 2018 11:56:35 GMT
After my recent stay in French Guiana (November-December), I can add some details about the use of lures for the capture of Morpho. Morpho eugenia comes very well to lure provided it is pale blue. Morpho rhetenor: on Kaw Mountain, this butterfly disdains lure when it flies over a path or a trail; on the other hand, above the asphalt road, the dark blue lure works very well. Curious? It should be added that the best effect is realized when one is posted at the top of a road on slope: rhetenor then steals less and becomes more sensitive to lure! In the attached photo, we will see a good collecting place for Morpho rhetenor and a Morpho menelaus flying low over the road. Kaw Mountain, between Tresor and Patawa, November 20, 2017 By the way, the spot was also very good for Morpho telemachus, both forms blue and orange.
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Post by bixia22 on Jan 12, 2018 19:02:39 GMT
When I use the lure, I like to find a place at a bend in the road (90 deg), so that I can see all the way down one side, move a few feet, and then I can see down the other side. The blue is so easy to see coming, once I see one, I kind of hide around the bend so that it can not see me, but I stick the lure out around the bend so it can see the lure. Sometime, if I fine a good spot, I would hide under a tree, and stick the lure out so the butterfly can see it, but not me.
I also found that if you pick a spot that is at a hill on the road, the ones that fly hi, will start to come down as the road start going up, making it better for the butterfly to see the lure, (they don't realize they need to gain altitude as the road gains altitude).
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Post by bixia22 on Jan 12, 2018 19:08:37 GMT
i did not notice any difference on asphalt roads vs dirt roads
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