mothman55
New Aurelian
Posts: 33 
Country: Canada
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Post by mothman55 on Jun 9, 2020 19:53:13 GMT
Its prime tiger swallowtail season here in Central Ontario, so I was out driving the backroads looking mostly for puddling papilio canadensis. Found a few spots, got a bunch of photos and videos, and upon checking a favourite last spot, I was astonished to see a melanic sipping minerals with a normal tiger. I assumed it was melanic as with wings upright, I could only see the underside and it was much darker than I have ever seen. Now the decision, to take a photo first and risk it flying away, or to go to the net and make a capture. After about 2 seconds of deliberation, I pulled the net from my vehicle and made the capture. After a pinch to disable it so as not to have it escape, I then took this photo. Never thought I would see a real live "fletcheri" in my life, no less catch one. Sorry but the photo won't upload, although its only 620KB. Says the forum has exceeded its attachment space limit. I will try again later.
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Post by Paul K on Jun 9, 2020 21:46:55 GMT
Good choice you made. The darker specimen could be related to those few freezing night we had here in mid May.
Possibly it got shocked some sort of.
Perhaps we should keep an eye open.
Look forward to see your specimen
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jun 9, 2020 22:30:48 GMT
Unfortunately photo upload directly to the forum is not possible any more. You have to upload the photo online somewhere, such as one of the free photo hosting websites, and post a link here. We recommend imgur.com as it is easy to use, including providing pre-formatted links to copy which will display the photo in the post. Here's how to proceed once you have joined the website: Open imgur.com and assuming you are logged on (it remembers you if you told it to) you will see your user name at the top right. Hover your mouse on the user name and a dropdown menu will appear. Click the word "Images", then you will see a green "Add Images" button. You can then choose and upload photos. After the images are uploaded you can right click on a thumbnail to open an image then hover your mouse over the image and a URL will appear with the word "Copy" and a dropdown menu symbol. Hover over the dropdown symbol and then click on "Get share links". You will then see 4 choices of links and click "Copy" next to the one labelled "BBCode (Forums)". You can then paste the copied link into the text where you want the photo to appear in the forum post and the pics will appear after you post the reply or create a post. We do not recommend using the 'preview post' option. You can also put more than one photo in a single post. Adam. |
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jun 9, 2020 22:34:14 GMT
The darker specimen could be related to those few freezing night we had here in mid May. I doubt it, the cold shock causing melanism (assuming it is not genetic) must happen immediately after the pre-pupa sheds its skin to become a pupa. Presumably in this case that would have been some time last autumn. I am very much looking forward to seeing the photo(s). Adam. |
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mothman55
New Aurelian
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Country: Canada
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Post by mothman55 on Jun 10, 2020 14:33:36 GMT
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Post by trehopr1 on Jun 10, 2020 17:17:56 GMT
Holy Cow !!!
That IS the find of a lifetime... and then some !
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Post by bobw on Jun 10, 2020 17:20:58 GMT
It's strange how asymmetrical it is.
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Post by trehopr1 on Jun 10, 2020 17:59:42 GMT
I wonder if you had "hung around" the area a little longer if you might of seen one or two others like it ?
Perhaps, what happened to it may have produced a few others a well (albeit - in very limited numbers). At least, that is what happens with our occurrences of what we Americans term "smoky" tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus).
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Post by Paul K on Jun 10, 2020 18:11:54 GMT
Beautiful !!! And it didn’t come from Marco’s lab
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jun 10, 2020 18:29:06 GMT
Thank you very much for posting the photo of this absolutely superb specimen, great find!
Well done working out how to post photos using imgur.
Adam.
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steve
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Country: Australia
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Post by steve on Jun 11, 2020 8:18:32 GMT
WOW !
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Post by luehdorfia on Jun 11, 2020 9:07:51 GMT
Wow, and in superb condition! Absolutely wonderful
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 11, 2020 15:41:08 GMT
Probably completely unrelated, on this side of the lake I saw a black tiger, first in my lifetime. Did not capture.
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Post by Paul K on Jun 11, 2020 16:26:37 GMT
Probably completely unrelated, on this side of the lake I saw a black tiger, first in my lifetime. Did not capture. Never see one on this side |
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Post by xavm (Xavier) on Jun 11, 2020 18:44:13 GMT
Phew ! wow !
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