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Post by satyrinae on Jan 5, 2022 21:13:42 GMT
Kindly note that Charles T. Ianni, founder of Ianni Butterfly Enterprise passed away. May he RIP.
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Post by satyrinae on Apr 5, 2021 11:14:22 GMT
Adam, WOW is an understatement. Glad that you have a nice series from Malta :-)
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Post by satyrinae on Oct 3, 2018 19:00:42 GMT
Thanks for sharing the photos :-)
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Post by satyrinae on May 29, 2018 10:00:44 GMT
My dad. He used and still does breed Bombyx mori for fun. I took his hobby and exaggerated just a little bit on it :-)
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Post by satyrinae on Mar 21, 2018 22:18:49 GMT
Hi folks. What is in your opinion the best colour for a collecting net: black or white? I have always used black. Thanks.
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Post by satyrinae on Jan 23, 2018 9:00:28 GMT
For protected species no matter how common you believe it is, when in a country obey their laws otherwise you could face a huge fine or be peering through prison bars. Some have and quite recently. .... and that includes Cites protected species. It just common sense! CITES should be respected as the ultimate aim is to preserve the species but protection is a subjective term as you can have a species protected in one region but not in another region of the same country or protected in one country but not in another. For example Hyles livornica is protected in some European countries but not in all whereas if I remember correctly in Switzerland every region(canton) has its own protected species.
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Post by satyrinae on Jan 22, 2018 14:28:57 GMT
To my mind, rules are sheer guidelines and I always collect according to me ethical standards.
1. A species might be very common but protected....collect. 2. A species might be rare as per my standards but not protected....absolute respect and no to minimal collecting
For example E. christii is common if you go abseiling as it prefers to fly on steep rocky south facing sides. There can easily be 100 specimens in a 500sqr meters area. But since it is highly inaccessible, then it is considered as very rare and protected. Very few people can handle a net with one hand and abseil with the other.
The same applies to P. hospiton, a very common and widespread species if you know where and when to find.
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Post by satyrinae on Jan 10, 2018 21:52:15 GMT
Amazing specimen. I collected so many insects in my life but never any gyns. Well done.
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Post by satyrinae on Dec 5, 2017 20:14:47 GMT
Hi guys,
Do you know from where I can buy self-ballasted Mercury vapour lamps with the EU please? Any online sites would be much appreciated. Thanks Regards Jonathan
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Post by satyrinae on Oct 26, 2017 6:59:32 GMT
The best Morpho lure of all is to catch a Morpho in bad quality and use it as lure. The results are astonishing....34 specimens in 10 days, and I missed quite a few because if you don't catch them upon first try, most do not return back.
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Post by satyrinae on Oct 18, 2017 19:40:11 GMT
I did it in French Guiana 10 years ago and it was simply fantastic. At one time I had 3 Morpho deidamia in the net together :-)
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Post by satyrinae on Oct 10, 2017 19:38:28 GMT
Thanks for the photos :-)
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Post by satyrinae on Oct 7, 2017 19:55:50 GMT
Whenever I had special aberrations of P. machaon melitensis, they all ended up in Japan as they offered 3 times what any European would have offered. This is one such beauty that I still have in my collection. Apologies for the quality of the photo.
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Post by satyrinae on Sept 26, 2017 20:53:37 GMT
I am still skeptical but let's hope for the best guys. Maybe one day in 100 years time, O. alexandrae will be the most common of all Ornithoptera. But we need to give time to time but as Adam said, this effort is always better than nothing.
p.s. hospiton is as common as most other species both in Corsica and Sardegna, just like apollo. However there are other less colorful species which deserve CITES 1.
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Post by satyrinae on Sept 2, 2017 13:52:54 GMT
Yes it is.
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