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Post by wollastoni on Apr 2, 2016 21:47:48 GMT
An interesting 45mn movie about a team of French entomologist exploring Bachan island to find A.R.Wallace's Ornithoptera croesus. It is in French, subtitled in English.
See link here : www.terranoa.com/product/product.php?code=1861
The first 15mn give you details about O. croesus story. I highly recommend the last 20 mn with the wonderful Bachan forests and streams, it will give you a taste of collecting trip in the Malay Archipelago ! 
PS : only issue, as it is a TV documentary, some information are exagerated (croesus rarity, crocodile dangerousness, head hunters teasing...).
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Post by cardon on Apr 5, 2016 13:17:25 GMT
Thank you for sharing,great video ! About twenty years ago I saw a video of a French group going to Malaita to collect butterflies,I've never found that one again unfortunately. |
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Post by papalidar on Apr 5, 2016 18:00:23 GMT
Dear Olivier and "cardon"
You can see the 3 films (only french version) on=
www.canal-u.tv/video/cerimes/chasseurs_de_papillons.13521
I was personaly implicated because I have organized this trip in 1995. The team of th croesus movie is the same except me and the film director Mr Gerald Calderon who have made several other films on the wildlife as "attaville" and "origine ocean" at "la Geode"
Kindly
Jacques
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 5, 2016 18:20:12 GMT
Wow thanks a lot Jacques ! |
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Post by papalidar on Apr 5, 2016 18:24:02 GMT
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Post by phantom-lepidopterist on Apr 6, 2016 5:20:13 GMT
Grand merci pour ces liens superbes et fascinants!
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Post by mygos on Apr 6, 2016 6:53:55 GMT
Thank you Jacques, great films :=
A+, Michel
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Post by steve on Apr 6, 2016 7:31:46 GMT
Yes, that was a great film. I would love to see more. Just need to learn to speak French !
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Post by mygos on Apr 6, 2016 8:57:56 GMT
Yes, that was a great film. I would love to see more. Just need to learn to speak French ! Pour une fois qu'on a un avantage Steve  A+, Michel |
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 6, 2016 9:34:40 GMT
Just need to learn to speak French ! Never too late to start. |
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Post by exoticimports on Apr 6, 2016 13:01:36 GMT
I said to my Tahitian colleagues: There is one French phrase I hear all the time and I don't know what it means. What is Je ne sais pas?"
They fell over laughing. "Well" I demanded "what does it mean"?
"I don't know" responded a lovely wahine.
"How can you not know? You're tri-lingual, with one being French!" I stammered.
Chuck
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Post by nomad on Apr 6, 2016 17:23:15 GMT
I will watch these videos when I have more time at the weekend  . Thank you for the links. |
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Post by wollastoni on Apr 7, 2016 19:57:06 GMT
I like this film a lot. It was very instructive to hear Miyashita and Mickael Hudson. BTW is Miyashita still selling insects, does he have a website ? |
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Post by luehdorfia on Apr 7, 2016 21:45:43 GMT
wollastoni, I would also be interested in getting contact to Japanese dealers. Do you happen to know any? Or any good Japanese online butterfly traders?
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Post by timmsyrj on Apr 8, 2016 7:53:00 GMT
Excellent video, though slightly over dramatised calling it a mythical butterfly found on one island I thought, as it has several sub species on several islands and is bred in quite large numbers nowadays, I also thought it was a species of lowland mangrove swamps not mountain hillsides and it's not the largest day butterfly.
Fantastic nevertheless to see them flying in their natural habitat, I guess the film is aimed at general public rather than entomologists.
Rich
Must check out the other films now.
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. Thank you for the links.
