From another hobby...

[Ladobe]

Something different...

I've been a serious amateur Lepidoperist since 1964, and traveled often to the wild places where they live to study their life histories and rear them. My specialties are the Parnassiinae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Hemileucinae, Sphingidae and Arctiidae mostly; artic/alpine, desert and tropical habitats mostly; and include many species from the Holarctic, Neotropic, Indo-Malayan and Australian zoogeographic regions.

Anyway, I put together a Halloween collage of PD photos for a lep group I run with where the theme was black and orange. Thought I'd share it here... (reduced the size from 750X3828 to save some bandwidth here, but this ought to be good enough to get the idea).

 

[nekvermont]

I didn't have a clue what you were talking about untill I saw the pics. I only recognize a couple. Very interesting and beatiful pics.

 

[Tradhunter]

Beautiful pics!

 

[Tellico]

Beautiful and amazing! Only recognized the Monarch, fuzzy Caterpillar and the Lady

 

[WendyZXZ]

Excellent pictures! :D

 

[americal]

OUTSTANDING 8) 8)

 

[Don Lovel]

Back when I worked on oil rigs, we did a bunch of wells around the Arkansas river and Lake Eufaula Oklahoma. The big work lights on the rig attracted some pretty incredible big moths and other monster bugs to the rig floor
Hot weather makes for big bugs.

 

[Ladobe]

Thanks, glad some folks enjoyed them.

Doubt many of you would recognize the majority as very few of these are found in North America.


Tellico,
There is no Danaus plexippus (Monarch) in the collage. Assume you mistook the Cethosia cyane (Malay Lacewing) for one (second from the bottom left side). These only live in the Indo-Malayan and Australian regions.

Here's some D. plexippus from my synoptic collection though for you (females left, males right). Most interesting is the white form nivosus (bottom right). I made many trips to Hawaii to study and rear this form, and reared thousands of them. Their larval food plant is Calotropis gigantea (Crown Flower), a large milkweed type bush that grows more like a tree to 30' high. It's flowers are often used in lei's.

 

[callshot]

Something about this post that BUGS me. :wink:

 

[forindooruseonly]

Hmm, where do I find the one in the bottom center to start my collection? :)

Impressive, actually. The cataloging of things has always fascinated me as a process. Probably from reading too many dinosaur books as a child.

 

[Ladobe]

We have a lot of those "flutterbys" in Vegas pard. Many are free for the asking, but some carry a stiff price. :wink:

 

[Turbobuddha]

Uh, something is abit out of place in that last row!

That sounds like a lot fun. I lost some pics from the monarch migration a few years ago. One of my maples had several hundred butterfly's in it. If not thousands. It was very much alive. Pretty cool thing to see.