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Post by jshuey on Jun 29, 2020 13:34:53 GMT
Trehopr, Not sure, but I think most of the blue buckeyes are the result of selective breeding. I have a couple of pictures of them but I'm unable to post them to this website. If you'd like to see them, send your email address to my message box & I'll email the pictures to you. The ones for sale may be the result of selective breeding, but they do show up regularly in almost the western hemisphere Junonia species. More commonly in the tropical species, but someone posted a blue coenia a few years back on one of the forums that was wild collected. john
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Post by Paul K on Jun 29, 2020 19:02:21 GMT
This is my favourite species of Junonia genus: J.orithyaThere is a brown form of females and then less common blue forms. Males are of course always vivid blue! (the photo was taken with flash so to enhance the blue sheen)
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Post by trehopr1 on Jun 29, 2020 22:43:58 GMT
Wow ! Now that is one awesome species of buckeye butterfly.
A drawer of that species with those incredible males and those two female forms would be a feast for the eyes...
Thank you so much for sharing Paul !
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Post by Paul K on Jun 30, 2020 1:26:15 GMT
What I wanted to show here is that female of J.orithya is very similar in pattern and colours to female of J.coenia. I wonder if blue form of J.coenia also have similar sheen of blue as J.orithya.If someone has picture of blue coenia it would be great to see it here. This is side by side comparison top J.coeniabottom J.orithyaboth females
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Post by mothman55 on Jul 6, 2020 0:48:32 GMT
I only saw twice this species in Southern Ontario and secured one female specimen but I have some specimens of this genus from South America and Asia that I collected. I always liked them for being simple but beautiful butterflies of Nymphalinae subfamily. Paul, buckeyes can be found further south west in Ontario. I saw them last September in Leamington. And closer to home, have seen them some years at the end of the Leslie Spit (Tommy Thompson Park). For sure not common, but findable if you know where to look.
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Post by trehopr1 on Jul 25, 2020 15:48:13 GMT
Recently, through the kind efforts of our member "larrycurlymoe" I was able to glimpse photographs of "blue aberrations" of our native Buckeye butterfly (J.coenia). He remarked that the photo's are not his but, are from the web and that perhaps others might like to see them. So, here they are... Very unique indeed !
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Post by Paul K on Jul 25, 2020 19:36:44 GMT
Spectacular indeed! I didn’t imagine that they are all blue. I supposed that they are more or less just partially blue on the brown background.
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