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Post by wolf on Sept 25, 2018 19:43:06 GMT
Thanks Jan. I fixed the A.speciosa picture. I'm finally done taking pics and editing all the species from my trip in april last year. Those two spp pictured here i bought/got as a gift from my friend Noel in Mindoro. It would be awesome to see them in their habitat though I'm allready thinking about going back again, but i will have to wait for a couple of years more atleast.
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Post by trehopr1 on Feb 10, 2019 5:43:49 GMT
Jan, was wondering if you ever collected any Arhopala yourself during your time in the Philippines?
Also, did you ever encounter the wonderful "gatherings" of T. trojana (males) at mineral springs?
Were you ever able to actually collect any trojana for yourself?
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Post by jmg on Feb 10, 2019 10:26:35 GMT
I quote : "Also, did you ever encounter the wonderful "gatherings" of T. trojana (males) at mineral springs? Were you ever able to actually collect any trojana for yourself? " Trogonoptera trojana Honrath, 1886 is a butterfly protected by CITES. Moreover, in Palawan, butterfly collecting is prohibited and all wildlife is protected. The following pictures (August, 2005) show: - the beach of Port Barton where trojana comes in the morning to pump salt water; the exact place where these males were photographed is on the extreme left of the photo, between the two boats stranded on the sand and the sea. - males in flight or mud-puddling on the beach; it will be noticed that one of these males does not hesitate to land where the ripples of the China Sea come to die. - A female in the garden of the lodge Greenviews Resort (lodge I highly recommend!). www.palawandg.clara.net/Port-Barton.html
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Post by jmg on Feb 10, 2019 10:51:39 GMT
Four more pictures of Port Barton (Palawan): 1. The forest near the Pamoayan Falls. Biotope of Papilio ( Menelaides) memnon lowii Druce, 1873 (common), and Lyssa zampa Butler, 1869 (very abundant). Palawan, August 17, 2005 2. An island off Port Barton. 3. The island of Cacnipa and the beach where I met (in the water) a beautiful specimen of Laticauda saintgironsi. 4. Vindula erota Fabricius, 1793, female, Island of Cacnipa, Palawan, August 16, 2005. Very common!
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wolf
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Post by wolf on Feb 10, 2019 13:53:17 GMT
Graphium delesserti palawanus female! From july 2012, somewhere on the road between Roxas and Port Barton in Palawan
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Post by trehopr1 on Feb 10, 2019 18:16:29 GMT
Thank you Jean-Marc for sharing all those wonderful photo's from your visit there. The one in-flight photograph of that male (on the downstroke wingbeat) is a magnificent capture of this gorgeous species. I would never have imagined such a large and magnificent butterfly could be seen near any beach...
Jan, thank you for jogging my memory on your thread about trojana. I will go back and re-read it now. Don't recall ever seeing the video on the topic so I'll look at that too. Find it interesting that the behavior of the species is quite different from T. brookiana.
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Post by wolf on Feb 12, 2019 20:51:03 GMT
wolf , all your pictures seem to be missing! Jan i know. Its annoying. I dont know why it keeps happening...i will try and reupload
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Post by wolf on Feb 14, 2019 18:30:33 GMT
Another endemic to The Philippines and Mindoro island. Parantica noeli, flying only on Mt. Halcon
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Post by Paul K on Feb 17, 2019 15:06:56 GMT
I don’t know if it’s just me or it is very hard to find perfect Arhopala specimen in the wild. Even the common once seem to have almost always some defect.
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Post by jhyatt on Feb 17, 2019 15:37:17 GMT
My theory is that certain species have evolved to emerge looking damaged, as an adaptive trait to avoid lepidopterists! I must have caught over a hundred Papilio glaucus maynardi (= australis) females, but only one or two have been in good condition. jh
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Post by Paul K on Feb 17, 2019 16:29:35 GMT
My theory is that certain species have evolved to emerge looking damaged, as an adaptive trait to avoid lepidopterists! I must have caught over a hundred Papilio glaucus maynardi (= australis) females, but only one or two have been in good condition. jh Right! Natural selection, that makes sense.
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Post by Ed on Mar 9, 2019 23:49:40 GMT
Amazing! Love your informative post!
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Post by geoffkupukupu on Feb 15, 2020 11:09:35 GMT
So any chance of buying some seed of the Zanonia vine. I was sent some small cuttings once before but they did not survive. Geoff Martin g.martin11@bigpond.com Aussie mob no +61 412 116 236
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Post by geoffkupukupu on Feb 15, 2020 11:20:20 GMT
Hi Geoff Martin here. Am hoping I can buy some seeds of this vine and get it propagated in my Darwin garden.
g.martin11@bigpond.com Aussie mob no +61 412 116 236 Face book gmart or Geoffrey Martin
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Post by Adam Cotton on Feb 15, 2020 18:23:06 GMT
I would think it is illegal to send seeds to Australia.
Adam.
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