weymouthent
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Post by weymouthent on Jan 20, 2015 15:30:51 GMT
Wow Weymouthent, it sounds like you have some fantastic historical specimens there, would love to see pictures of those, I also love British entomological history and have many specimens from Newman, Frohawk, Hemming, Leech etc, it sounds from your name that you live in my favourite part of the world too, the good old isle of Portland where I have spent many fantastic holidays, a true heaven for the entomologist as is a lot of Dorset, maybe I could pop round next time I am down your way. Yes, I am based in Weymouth, but have collected extensively all over Dorset, My first full year was 1978, and I now do several different orders of insect, I have seen some 58 species of butterfly including all the resident Dorset Species, included in the 58 are the vagrants Nymphalis polychloros & Danaus plexippus, I have also reared many of these 58 plus another 8 of the rarer migrants ect. You are very welcome to pop round, next time you are down here, Cheers, Mick
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 20, 2015 16:11:44 GMT
Good to see that this forum helps create new friendship and collaboration !
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 20, 2015 16:52:15 GMT
An excellent collection of rare British species, I bet Dunc will be amazed at those whites, the arion and dispar are great but the real stand out specimens are those Pieris napi for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 17:14:15 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 17:16:36 GMT
We stay on Portland Mick at Church Ope Cove, been doing so since 1992, we were last down there in august, hope to get down there at some point this year all being well so I will let you know.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 17:21:03 GMT
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Post by weymouthent on Jan 20, 2015 19:39:21 GMT
We stay on Portland Mick at Church Ope Cove, been doing so since 1992, we were last down there in august, hope to get down there at some point this year all being well so I will let you know. Ok, dunc01226, duly noted, will see you sometime in the coming year, Very nice P napi vars by the way, I did try to rear sulphurea from captive stock back in about 1980, but failed, I never did come across sulphurea livestock ever again, If I remember rightly the livestock came from Roy Stockley who I think, was the last one to sell such livestock and when he died, all the stock was lost, So, after being bred for nearly seventy? years this strain was lost for good.
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Post by weymouthent on Jan 20, 2015 19:46:59 GMT
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Post by weymouthent on Jan 20, 2015 20:07:58 GMT
Those are very fine historical drawers, full of rarities by some really famous collectors. Thank you for showing them. I am most impressed by the series of the extinct Maculinea arion eutyphron. You may have read my recent thread on that extinct Subspecies. I referenced a article by a Cotswold collector C. L. Chamberlain published in 1908. I see one of your M. arion was caught in 1910 in the Cotswold by a J. Chamberlain probably his brother. Also that is a very large and impressive L. dispar dispar caught in 1832 by Rev William Bree. Those Plebejus argus masseyi dates are very interesting, 1937, perhaps some of the last captured, it disappeared on the Westmorland mosses a few years later. A very nice series of A. aglaja and A. adippe by the great man himself E.B. Ford. Just wonderful. Sometimes on Forums, we need to resize our images to insert them, in open and then paint and then saving them to add here. Peter. Thank you Peter for those comments, yes, I have read you M arion article which was very interesting, as you may have noted a good number of My specimens are anointed ex Brian Taylor, I have known Brian since the early 1980s, He started collecting at the beginning of the 1960s, later he worked at the Over Compton, (Near Yeovil) based butterfly farm : Worldwide Butterflies, he started here in the late 1960s and stayed until the mid 1970s, during that time many collections were acquired by Worldwide Butterflies for resale, and Brian was well placed receive some of the best, in later years he gave up active collecting and I was lucky enough to acquire his collection, this was to form the bases of my Historic collection, I added more historic specimens in due course, But, without Brian's input, my historic collection would not amount to very much! and I am in debt to him.
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 20, 2015 20:14:37 GMT
Ah, Portland, brings back memories, not been there for years, probably 20. Had some good days down there, indeed all over Dorset. Wareham forest had some good colonies of P.argus and H.semele and there was a nice little area on the coast at Winspit where there was loads of skippers and if you was there late enough also loads of horseshoe bats came out of the caves.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2015 11:09:49 GMT
Portland still has fantastic numbers of L Coridon, they swarm all over the place, L bellargus is there but in smaller numbers as is C Minimus and P Argus although the numbers of argus are greatly reduced these days since butterfly conservation started to "manage" one of the best sites. Portland is also fantastic for M Gallathea, H Semele, L Megera and most years C Crocea, 2014 was a particularly good year for this, the good thing about the island is that most of it is still the same as 20 years ago, when the Portland stone quarrys are finished they are left for nature to take over, great for blue butterflies, as I said a lepidopterists heaven, and the moths.......oh my.
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