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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 13, 2019 20:52:01 GMT
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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 6, 2019 7:18:04 GMT
Bacterial infection. I always keep large amounts of caterpillars in different containers in case one gets infected. I clean the containers once a week with vinegar.
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Post by nomihoudai on Feb 5, 2019 11:19:45 GMT
The left side is darker than the right side and the head is tilted a bit. I don't know how much of a difference is there between the sexes in this species. I once saw an Aglais io gynandromorph at an insect fair which was also hard to spot as there is only a minor difference in wingsize in that species. Radusho's explanation makes a lot of Sense, I would think that too.
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Post by nomihoudai on Jan 31, 2019 22:06:35 GMT
Yes a lot of heart went into it. But I know that I won't have time to maintain the collection the next few years. Therefore, I would be happy to see it in someone else's hands. I enjoyed many of the specimens and I hope others will too. Some of them, like the Philotes had been self breed.
The last two years I tried to make a startup to create entomological books. I never acquired customers (authors) and took a financial hit. I will have to work twice as hard the next years to make up for the losses. On March 1st I'll start at a new job.
I still got my net and I'll be back some time with a new collection.
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Post by nomihoudai on Jan 31, 2019 20:12:46 GMT
WELL, the focus of ICF has never been the sale of insects,... but this is something that doesn't happen very often, my collection and cabinet are looking for a new home:
I hope that the pics will be of interest to some of the users.
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Post by nomihoudai on Nov 14, 2018 1:50:24 GMT
Fungi's optimal growth temperature is either room temperature or less. Most fungi are found in caves and the like. Furthermore bacteria don't decompose specimen (and a higher temperature is only optimal for the ones living within the human body). Just to clarify this. The room temperature for relaxing has only to do with preventing greasiness and with preventing condensation that could ruin specimen through direct water contact.
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Post by nomihoudai on Nov 13, 2018 23:28:06 GMT
No, it will liquify lipids that are in the body of the specimen and they are more likely to become greasy. I always use cold water and don't put them next to a heater.
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Post by nomihoudai on Nov 4, 2018 2:51:31 GMT
Imagine visiting a fellow collector, he opens up a drawer of the collection and you see that he glued a pic of himself on each of the butterflies. LOL!
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Post by nomihoudai on Nov 3, 2018 23:48:59 GMT
That sounds exactly like my friend roy. May he find the woman of his dreams elsewhere. Lol.
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Post by nomihoudai on Nov 3, 2018 15:07:47 GMT
I just wanted to post a pic on wasps, but my friend roy has been deleted. Where is he?
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Post by nomihoudai on Nov 3, 2018 3:04:59 GMT
How do you usually relax butterflies? You can just put the butterfly in a humid chamber and it will relax. So some styrofoam/sponge/sand with water and butterfly with needle stuck into it. Beware that some Pierids develop green spots in high humidity. Therefore your Phoebis could end up stained by the procedure.
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Post by nomihoudai on Oct 22, 2018 16:34:43 GMT
I have Paradox drawers since I started and I like them. But, beware as they cannot withhold Psocidae if the humidity is high. In my old apartment in Germany I regularly had Psocidae in the drawers. The problem was that the humidity in the Rhine valley is so high that I even had a little bit of mold on my apartment walls. Since I moved that cabinet back to Luxembourg into a drier environment there is no problems at all. Wolf(Nicolas) also has only paradox drawers and never reported any Psocidae trouble. The last two years the company was busy delivering big orders to museums. This is my honest feedback.
Their wooden boxes are amazing and I like the woodwork.
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Post by nomihoudai on Oct 19, 2018 23:50:12 GMT
Could be that the eBay engine is then more favorable. The other factor is that people, even when offput, will click on the item to find out why it is fantastic. This then generates clicks, and items with many clicks are ranked at the top. So it works. With so much stock on display the only important things in many categories is views.
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Post by nomihoudai on Oct 19, 2018 7:20:43 GMT
Could it be too cold for them? In Texas you see plenty of them. If anyone outside of the US wants some, I still have a bunch papered.
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Post by nomihoudai on Oct 16, 2018 17:08:38 GMT
There will be a short period where nothing interesting flies, but in February/March it should start again with Anthocharis midea. I hope it won't become too cold, I want to spend parts of my winter in Houston to flee the cold...
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