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Post by Paul K on Feb 25, 2018 12:59:03 GMT
Interesting, looks like with lack of the right choice they were desperate to do it. 😍
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Post by Adam Cotton on Feb 25, 2018 21:18:45 GMT
That can happen very occasionally. I once saw a male P. bianor actually copulate briefly with a female P. memnon in a flight cage, but she violently shook him off after he had locked on. I separated the female out, just in case, but the eggs were all infertile.
Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Feb 25, 2018 21:28:47 GMT
Another time I obtained 2 hybrid males from a batch of P. memnon pupae. The adults were caged together with P. nephelus. I cannot be absolutely certain which parent was which since no-one saw them mating, but I expect that it must have been a male P. nephelus which mated with a female P. memnon. The reason I say that is because the egg of P. memnon is huge compared to that of P. nephelus, and the developing hybrid larva inside a small P. nephelus egg would almost certainly die because the egg is too small to contain the hybrid head capsule.
Adam.
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