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Post by wollastoni on Mar 28, 2016 15:00:28 GMT
Today's Delias :
My favorite on this board is the beautiful Delias battana ariae from Central Sulawesi, the recto with fluo yellow is impressive. BTW my battana ariae are not as white as those from the Delias website, they have a fluo yellow colour.
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 10, 2016 12:58:36 GMT
Today's Delias, with a very rare one, Delias putih putih and a beautiful Delias mayrhoferi
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Post by wollastoni on Jun 29, 2016 8:24:10 GMT
After one month being lazy... a new board of Delias including 2 nice ones !
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betta132
New Aurelian
Roughly 50% of an idea what I'm doing.
Posts: 22
Country: Central Texas
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Post by betta132 on Jul 3, 2016 4:33:56 GMT
Not a butterfly, in fact he's pretty ugly compared to all the beauties on this thread, but here's the only thing I'm currently spreading. I have some beetles, but they're being aligned, you can't really call it "spreading" if you're just tucking the legs up close. Male dobsonfly, found dead yesterday, only took about an hour in the relaxing chamber to loosen up. Still fairly soft, doesn't seem to have any sort of armor on most of its body. Did my best to get its legs and wings both nicely set up. Wings looked weird in a typical butterfly "as far forwards as they'll go" position, so I went with this. Didn't completely cover the wings with paper because they seem stiff enough to hold themselves up, and I can relax it again if they misbehave. Should look pretty nice after it's dried, even with the damage to the wings. The things at the top of the pic are some spare pins, some mantis wings (found with no mantis), and the shadow of a practice beetle on a pin.
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Post by wollastoni on Jul 3, 2016 9:50:17 GMT
Very impressive betta ! I have never met those "monsters" ! Are they common, there ?
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betta132
New Aurelian
Roughly 50% of an idea what I'm doing.
Posts: 22
Country: Central Texas
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Post by betta132 on Jul 5, 2016 6:32:46 GMT
I'd never seen one before I found this one dead, and I'd notice a flying insect this big. I've never seen a larva that I could absolutely ID, either. They aren't endangered, but I don't think they're very common, at least not where I live. Maybe more so out in the country? I'm definitely gonna keep an eye out for more, now. Partly so I can get myself one without any wing damage, partly because they'd probably make really good trading stock.
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Post by mothman27 on Jul 5, 2016 23:48:13 GMT
Where did you find it? flying? blacklight?
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betta132
New Aurelian
Roughly 50% of an idea what I'm doing.
Posts: 22
Country: Central Texas
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Post by betta132 on Jul 6, 2016 18:29:19 GMT
There's a chunk of buildings (including my usual haircut place) that backs up to a patch of forest that apparently hasn't been messed with by people. The buildings spray pesticides around in order to keep the many, many kinds of bugs out- I've seen three kinds of wasps, at least twelve beetle species, praying mantises, walking sticks, and two kinds of large spider. Stuff flies/runs into the buildings and tries to walk around them, and ends up dying from the pesticides before it can walk away. Looks like the dobsonfly was attracted to the red light of a 'closed' sign, bumped against the window a bunch, and ended up dying from pesticide poisoning. I've gotten a bunch of other nice specimens from around there, things usually die completely intact. I'm not really sure how to catch them, but I'd say a blacklight would be a good bet. Or just look around water- the larvae are aquatic and the adults exist only to mate, so trees around water would probably be a good place to start. Maybe a blacklight near water? Also, if you could get a live female, you might be able to use it to lure males in. I'm not sure if they give off pheromones, but since they don't make sounds, they have to have some way to find each other.
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Post by mothman27 on Jul 7, 2016 0:07:45 GMT
Thanks. Here I have got an abundance of fishflies in the spring. (they look like dobsonflies just without huge mandibles) I live next to a vernal pond where the fishfly larvae develop in rotting wet wood. They come to lights often. I just have never seen any dobsonflies around and wonder why. Maybe the dobsonflies need year-round water?
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Post by nomihoudai on Jul 7, 2016 7:46:20 GMT
Dobsonflies need streams, not ponds, from what I could read. I have seen them in the South when using black lights and I must say that they must be rather common considering how often I've found them.
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Post by wollastoni on Sept 15, 2016 21:02:29 GMT
Hot stuff on the board !!!
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Post by nomad on Sept 16, 2016 2:45:20 GMT
Wow.
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Post by mothman27 on Sept 20, 2016 14:56:33 GMT
Right now on the spreading boards I have a pair of S. diana, a male S. nokomis nicritis (female is still waiting to be pinned), lots of noctuids, catocalas, and a few arctiidae.
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Post by wollastoni on Oct 3, 2016 14:24:25 GMT
This week end Papuan Delias :
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Post by mothman27 on Oct 3, 2016 14:50:00 GMT
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