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Post by livingplanet3 on Mar 12, 2022 13:21:56 GMT -8
I was able to find a source (a specialty native Texas plants farm near San Antonio) that produces the seeds of one of Anaea andria's hosts ( Croton capitatus). I've now received a supply by mail, and will be getting an area prepared for planting them soon. Hopefully, I'll finally be able to rear some andria larvae. |
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Post by kevinkk on Mar 13, 2022 9:44:52 GMT -8
Besides the flowers and bees, the other sign of spring has arrived, second only to the dreaded April 15th in annoyance, we changed the clocks
an hour forward yet again here in most of the USA. Fun.
At least I can use the barbeque in the daylight now.
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Post by wollastoni on Mar 14, 2022 9:25:36 GMT -8
Spring has started in Brittany too. Around 15°C today, and I saw about 15 Aglais io, 1 Gonepteryx rhamni and 1 Pararge aegeria (all are overwintering species) while walking my dog. Anthocharis cardamines should soon be in town !  |
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Post by jhyatt on Mar 14, 2022 12:32:23 GMT -8
Spring started here in the southern Appalachian mountains of eastern Tennessee around March 2, when the first Pieris rapae was seen flying.
By March 7, I had seen Colias philodice and papilio glaucus on the wing too; I'm certain that Celastrina ladon must also have been out, but I didn't notice one.
However, spring ended on March 12, when the local night temperature fell to about 15 degrees F and ca. 3 inches of snow accumulated. Oh well...
I suppose it can all start over again soon. Back to 60 F today, so there's hope.
BTW, on the coast of Georgia on Feb. 25, a moth light trap yielded a lovely big catch of moths, including the 2nd state occurrence for Leucania pilipalpis, and a neat little black-and-white Crambid that just might be something new.
Cheers,
J. Hyatt
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Post by Crake on Mar 14, 2022 20:08:34 GMT -8
We’ve had somewhat of an early start to the season in central California. There were monarchs all about and around Monterey bay on February 28. Last Saturday I was doing dishes and noticed a Gigantic female Papilio rutulus nectaring right outside the window on some lantana. Ran out of the house with soapy hands and a netted myself a picture-perfect specimen. Yesterday there was another male rutulus and a near-constant procession of Vanessa atalanta (and some cardui) making their rounds across the neighborhood. I also netted some pieris rapae and a gravid Colias eurytheme. All in all, it’s been an exceptional start to the season, especially since all these new emergences have not a single scratch on their wing. Here's the female: (sorry for the poor photo quality, IMGUR is being a pain...)  |
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Post by jhyatt on Mar 15, 2022 11:34:58 GMT -8
BTW, on the coast of Georgia on Feb. 25, a moth light trap yielded a lovely big catch of moths, including the 2nd state occurrence for Leucania pilipalpis, and a neat little black-and-white Crambid that just might be something new. Cheers, J. Hyatt Well, the Crambid wasn't anything new at all... just the very highly dimorphic female of a species whose totally different-looking male I already knew... duh.
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Post by letteredOlive on Mar 16, 2022 21:13:09 GMT -8
It is getting warmer here in East Texas, I saw some papilio glaucus and Anaea andria. I also caught a luna moth the other day right before a freezing day came.
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Post by lamprima2 on Mar 16, 2022 22:37:40 GMT -8
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Post by nomihoudai on Mar 17, 2022 0:54:41 GMT -8
Last week on a walk in Western/Central Europe:  Polygonia c-album  Gonepteryx rhamni |
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Post by livingplanet3 on Mar 29, 2022 15:46:22 GMT -8
P. glaucus, P. polyxenes and B. philenor are all flying in North TX now. Have also seen many D. plexippus, along with numerous smaller butterfly species. Also, Hyles lineata. Anaea andria seem more numerous this year than most. I've now planted some Croton capitatus seeds, so hopefully I'll have andria's host plant growing soon.
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Post by mikeh on Apr 24, 2022 22:00:58 GMT -8
I saw a white last week... and it's snowing again 😑
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Post by kevinkk on Apr 25, 2022 5:55:40 GMT -8
I saw a white last week... and it's snowing again 😑 Exactly. We are having the wettest April in about 90 years, it rained last night, and we still have a week to go. There was some large warm and bright orb seen a few days ago though, as well as a couple cabbage whites and possibly a nymphalid, but I was taking advantage of not getting wet and doing outdoor work. |
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Post by Paul K on Apr 26, 2022 5:19:23 GMT -8
April 24 and here in Toronto On. area I saw first Pieris rapae of the season. Got so excited almost as I saw first time in my live flying Morpho in Costa Rica or Troides in Thailand.
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