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Post by cabintom on Jan 13, 2015 15:03:25 GMT
Welcome from a fellow Canadian!
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homard
New Aurelian
Posts: 19
Country: Russia
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Post by homard on Jan 16, 2015 17:44:28 GMT
Well, hello Paul! Welcome to our Forum! Me too has a droplet of a Polish blood, thus I like much any things Polish (novelists & novels, etc.
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Post by chrysocarabus on Jan 17, 2015 9:12:32 GMT
Hello, I am running my French age of 50 years. My specialities are the Cetoniidae the Carabus and some families of lepidoptera : Colias, Melanargia. A note I am very bad in English! kristof
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 17, 2015 13:29:09 GMT
Welcome Kristof,
Don't worry about bad English. My French is undoubtedly even worse.
Adam.
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Post by chrysocarabus on Jan 17, 2015 13:36:30 GMT
Thank you mister Adam.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 17, 2015 14:23:09 GMT
Good to see you here Kristof. Hope to see many of your Carabus and Cetoniidae pictures ! They are fantastic insects !
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Post by chrysocarabus on Jan 17, 2015 15:31:00 GMT
will do my best pictures of insects for site.Thank you wollastoni
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 19, 2015 18:24:46 GMT
Hi guys, I've been invited to join this new forum by Adam, some of you I've met at shows here in the U.K, most have seen me on the insectnet forum. I have been collecting since I was 8 years old when my friend at the time visited a pen pal in France who's father collected, he started collecting cabbage whites with a pond dipping net when he came back and that's how it all started, I'm 48 in august so that'll be 40 years of collecting, amazingly I still have 2 specimens I caught when I was 10. I'm an avid Papilionidae collector but have collected quite a lot in Europe, I've reared every british species though that was 15 years ago when I stopped, I've added quite a collection of African Nymphalidae and recently been studying up on Stichophthalma (with the "H" Olivier), I have just published a website that I hope will grow over the next few years with a little help from fellow collectors supplying me with specimens for the collection or photo's to use on the site. Please feel free to take a look if you haven't already seen it stichophthalma.simdif.com/index.html I welcome any feedback. timmsyrj (Rich to my fellow collectors)
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 20, 2015 7:10:38 GMT
Great to see you on this very special forum Rich !
Your website is a great source of information, congrats ! I would love to know more about Stichophthalma behaviours as I have never met any in the wild.
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 20, 2015 20:48:45 GMT
I don't know a lot about their life in the wild only that they are found in montane forests at quite an altitude judging by the data on my specimens, a lot are from 900m upto 1800m at Sa Pa north Vietnam. They fly in small clearings and pathways deep within the forest, most if not all specimens are taken in bait traps on fermenting fruits just like many nymphalidae. Their flight period is mainly April to September though I'm not sure if this is one extended emergence or 2 or more generations.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 20, 2015 21:48:08 GMT
Actually some species also fly at low elevation. I have seen louisa at about 500m or less in Laos, and remember seeing Stichophthalma many years ago in Chanthaburi at very low elevation in dark bamboo undergrowth.
Adam.
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 21, 2015 15:02:19 GMT
Thanks for that info Adam, I've recently received stichophthalma neumogeni renqingduojiei collected last August in bamboo forest at 2000-2200 metres in Tibet. They must be great to see in the wild, those you saw in Chanthaburi would have been either Stichophthalma cambodia or Stichophthalma louisa siamensis (which is one I'm trying to get a hold of but they are all specimens from Wang Chin area that are advertised).
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coopera
Junior Aurelian
Posts: 61
Country: England
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Post by coopera on Jan 26, 2015 22:39:52 GMT
Hello Everyone, My name is Andrew and I live in the town of Bournemouth, Dorset, UK.
I have spoken to a few members through facebook where I was subsequently invited to join this forum! I have always been fascinated with the natural world but especially lepidoptera. I am a keen photographer but by no means professional and I hope to share some of the images I've taken, with the forum. I have a small collection of specimens, the majority being those of which I have saved from recycling bins or car-boot sales but also curiosities I've picked up on my travels. I spend my free time in Spring and Summer wandering Dorset and surrounding countryside, my favourite local haunts being areas around Lulworth Cove and Durlston. For the new year I've begun collecting Books on British Lepidoptera prior to 1960 and my oldest at the moment is British Butterflies by W.Coleman published in 1860 but I'm hoping to push back further.
Much of my space is filled up with creatures I have both reared and bred, the majority being leps but other insects too; Phasmids, Roaches and Mantids but also a few Spiders and Millipedes. In the last couple of years I've added a few amphibians to my menagerie!
I will look forward to participating in future posts!
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Post by nomad on Jan 27, 2015 6:02:09 GMT
Hi Andrew. Again, welcome to the new Forum. The coast of Dorset is one of my favourite places, especially those places that you have mentioned and around Swanage. The Isle of Purbeck has a wide range of habitats in a small area, from dry to wet heaths and chalk and limestone grasslands.
Peter.
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coopera
Junior Aurelian
Posts: 61
Country: England
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Post by coopera on Jan 27, 2015 7:50:45 GMT
Hi Andrew. Again, welcome to the new Forum. The coast of Dorset is one of my favourite places, especially those places that you have mentioned and around Swanage. The Isle of Purbeck has a wide range of habitats in a small area, from dry to wet heaths and chalk and limestone grasslands. Peter. Cheers Peter. Yes you're quite right and I have had many happy, summer memories searching within them.
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