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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 5, 2016 16:04:31 GMT
Gainesville has a good amount of neotropical Lycaenidae (about 1500 drawers) and somebody is working through them, I just forgot who it was. Arhopala is more problematic as I am not really aware of any museum that has a more or less complete set of them. They also have very minor differences in the adults, at least I have big problems to identify some of their subgenera (genera?).
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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 5, 2016 9:24:23 GMT
One of my Arhopala drawers. Now there's a genus in need of revision! Haha, yes, I mentioned that to Andy Warren, and then he told me about the DNA based "Revision" they put out. I kept my mouth shut on that, but I'm not the guy that considers trees in a paper where more than half of species are missing as a sound revision. Great collection.
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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 5, 2016 9:00:50 GMT
The website looks great cabintom!! Also the mobile support does work, I don't know if this has been fixed before I saw it, or if Olivier simply has turned off Javascript on his phone. It looks neat and simple, this is the most important for websites. I saw your flickr collection and I am looking forward to this collection. About the links... you have two options now, stay in 1990s or go with time, you want to go with time? First of all mobile support, second LINKS ARE OLDSCHOOL. Nowadays, nobody does it anymore! It's a waste of space, unless of course you want to celebrate the internet of the 90s. Traffic will be generated through google or advertising on Facebook. At the moment it also loads very fast, and if you want to leave it like that, leave your fingers off additional JavaScript, and DO NOT add a page counter to your website. If you want to track how successful your page is add google analytics, but don't put these nasty little boxes that show you how many daily visitors and from where they came from (see bottom of this page). They load an additional style sheet, make a call to an external server and run a bunch of JavaScript. It just makes your page slow without any added information. What can I show you as a reference to prove that I know at least the basics? www.label-butterflies.com is from me and has been entirely coded within a text editor only! The page is from 2013, I would never again put the google translate onto a website (at the time a fancy gimmick) and I became super lazy for the stats page. (You can see that one when logged in). The game itself is running server wise and not with JavaScript because back in the days I wasn't able to do so. There is no mobile support as once again I was lacking the time, my job keeps me very busy since two years...and I put every single amount of free time into my new website which hopefully comes online also early this year. Stay tuned. Sorry for the heated language, must be the Coca Cola I'm having for breakfast.
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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 3, 2016 20:33:49 GMT
They make books now of letters to the editor? Maybe I should put more efforts into mine... lol.
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Post by nomihoudai on Jan 14, 2016 12:39:22 GMT
You all mean Prepona ? I have seen some hybrids of the classical Prepona and Agrias and they are very interesting. I do not have any of them in my collection, too expensive for me.
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Post by nomihoudai on Jan 3, 2016 13:42:26 GMT
Lol at the 'for educational purposes only', that's not how copyright works, but... Geoff Martin told me that these pictures are public domain, so you can do with them whatever you want and show them wherever you want.
No clue about the butterflies, but seems to be the same scale deformity that is possible in genus Lycaena.
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 23, 2015 16:33:19 GMT
Yes that is true, most of what I send were Lycaenidae, but I also send some mid size Nymphalidae and Morphos "back in the days".
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 23, 2015 14:57:57 GMT
I put pins like on Adam's pic, but I put them closer to the wing base. If the needle is far away from the wing base they have a lot of torque and can break things in my opinion. The most important thing after that is double boxing them. I put the set butterflies in a small box and this box into a much larger box that I pad with crumbled newspaper. Furthermore, I will put a ring of rough cotton wool around the butterflies, if a body comes loose the cotton should catch it and keep it stuck.
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 23, 2015 14:43:19 GMT
Having an idea is one thing, doing it is another. Currently light processors are not fast enough to discriminate butterflies on the go, but they are getting there. No need to operate the thing on your own. Once it comes within technological reach, I will try and get this thing working.
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 16, 2015 10:49:35 GMT
Nice
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 15, 2015 20:18:07 GMT
We have over 60 million people in the UK. Agriculture is squeezing the soil for every single penny of profit that can be made. Industry is taking grip on any other part of nature left,...
...and butterflies decline? How on Earth is that possible?! I really don't get it.
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 14, 2015 15:04:35 GMT
Buy a generator and sell it afterwards or give it to someone. Only solution that comes to my mind. Or settle for a smaller lamp, when I used to do light trapping I did most of it with 40W tubes and motorcycle batteries. 320W is a lot for that grid.
When I was in Indonesia, using a single hair dryer wasn't even possible as the outlet in the house was not strong enough to support it.
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 13, 2015 22:28:55 GMT
Wow! Your photography has improved. I am a fan of on-white photography and these are very good! The glow is normal, there is not too much you can do about it I think. For very light specimen I used to put a black piece of cardboard right next to the wings so that it will cast a small shadow onto the wing, it improves the quality a little bit. Great pictures.
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 13, 2015 9:53:19 GMT
There is the 'butterflies and moths of Africa group' which is great, but yes, it is mostly South Africa as the most active people (and people with a decent camera) are living there. They also had a forum somewhere, can't remember any more where it is, but that one is super empty too.
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 13, 2015 9:31:42 GMT
Well...could we all try and get back on topic and stop taking personal offence out of words that initially were not directed towards people. Yes, this forum here is 'oldschool', yes, facebook is 'shallow'. Not people, unless you specifically choose to.
It's all about the question on how you communicate and how it is implemented on a website level. Facebook is a great place for chatting, getting information and pictures quickly. The upload fields are nice, easy and quick. Upon replying to a post the original author and everybody involved will get a notification in their top corner of the website. If you got a smartphone it will hunt you down wherever you are. For quick positive feedback you have the like button. But overall, it is chatting. Not saying that this is bad, it's great to chat with like minded people, BUT, try and find or remember that nice chat just a month later. You have to scroll through an endless amount of random stuff until you may find it. Unless your group of people has been kept rather small. There is no possibility of finding and retrieving a discussion unless you hashtagged it. Great and lengthy discussions, tutorials, on how to do something? Don't bother posting them , you will never find them back.
For such things our old school forums are still around, and hopefully will for a long time. A simple database, you post, you store. That's it, and it will stay there for the years to come. Several ways will make it possible for you to find and retrieve information, even after years in some cases (very often information becomes outdated, so you won't even bother after a few years). I will certainly stick with this type of forum as I hate writing up things and putting effort into pictures and then basically losing them just a few days after posting. I don't see them vanishing all too soon, but I do admit that some of the traffic is drained due to the all shiny and promising Facebook.
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