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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 18, 2015 9:10:01 GMT
The not so rare Delias are flying here in Chiang Mai now. I saw both descombesi and hyparete flying around flowering trees this afternoon, and a very beautiful sight they are too.
I also sometimes see Delias pasithoe in my garden, although that is much less common. It should be around next month I think.
Adam.
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Post by nomad on Jan 18, 2015 10:28:34 GMT
You are very lucky to have beautiful Delias flying in your garden and elsewhere Adam, Here in the U.K, its freezing and no butterflies are to be seen.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 18, 2015 13:52:14 GMT
Yes, our 'winter' is like UK summer, 23-25C daytime and 10-15C min at night, usually about 18C. Unusually we had a few days of dull weather, and today was bright sunshine (normal for this time of year) so the butterflies that are flying were out and about. There are relatively few butterflies this time of year, mostly Pierids, but in mid February the weather changes from 'cool' to HOT in about a week and this stimulates the pupae of most species to emerge as the spring generation in late February and early March.
Adam.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 18, 2015 14:01:53 GMT
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Post by telliottmbamsc on Jan 30, 2015 18:16:26 GMT
Super! Totally jealous here!
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 30, 2015 20:57:06 GMT
Adam, 23-25C in summer, you've not been back for a while! We've got 3-4inches of the White stuff everywhere at the moment, dreaming of summer.
Rich
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 30, 2015 21:29:50 GMT
Yes, last time I was back in the UK was summer 2006, and the last time I was there in winter was 1980. I did go there in April about 20 years ago, and it was snowing in Birmingham (yUK).
Adam.
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Post by jmg on Jan 31, 2015 2:07:45 GMT
These days in France, we had some snow storms and in Paris it's cold, rainy and windy. So, it's actually the good weather to dream about Delias pasithoe ! Please, Adam, keep one or two samples from your garden for my next visit in Chiang Mai, soon I hope. In the alley where I live in Paris (it's a bit like a garden), a sample of Vanessa atalanta moved behind a window for winter shelter. Wintering or not, the butterfly is dead but remains clearly visible since two or three months. Not so glamour than D. pasithoe fluttering between orchids and bromelias !
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 31, 2015 7:07:14 GMT
I have 4 Inachus io hibernating in a corner of my out house, they should do alright in there, it's not heated any more but it's insulated well, I used to have 12 fish tanks housed in here when I bred African cichlids from lake Malawi.
Rich
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 31, 2015 13:25:56 GMT
Another rare Delias, unfortunately not from my collection : a gynandromorph of Delias hypomelas f. argentata from the Baliem Valley, West Papua, caught in October 1990 in Walesi village by Richard Worth.
There is an article about it in Tropical Lepidoptera, 8(1): 38, 1997 (I can send you the pdf if needed)
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Post by nomad on Jan 31, 2015 14:52:22 GMT
Super rarity, I believe gynandromorphs are very rare in Delias.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 31, 2015 15:10:00 GMT
Not sure gynandromorphs are rarer in Delias than in other genera.
It is of course nearly impossible to find gynandro of Papuan Delias for sale, but the species that are intensively bred (Thai, Indo, Indian) do produce some gynandro that are offered from time to time. If Alex Bic is reading us, I am sure he will be able to show us some from his massive gynandro collection.
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 31, 2015 15:23:47 GMT
Another Papuan Delias gynandro, Delias microsticha.
I don't know in which collection it is (if someone knows, please PM me)
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 31, 2015 15:25:08 GMT
And a Delias meeki gynandromorph from Ornithoptera.net website
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Post by indra on Feb 1, 2015 19:57:55 GMT
Another rare Delias, unfortunately not from my collection : a gynandromorph of Delias hypomelas f. argentata from the Baliem Valley, West Papua, caught in October 1990 in Walesi village by Richard Worth.
There is an article about it in Tropical Lepidoptera, 8(1): 38, 1997 (I can send you the pdf if needed)
Wow!! I was a member of this trip back in 1990 and had no idea that this specimen had been captured. Seeing it now is better late than never I guess. John
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