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Post by radusho on Feb 23, 2022 8:32:07 GMT -8
The specimen is still not as pink as on the first photo rhat has been altered. Even the background is pinkish, also the eyes!
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Post by vabrou on Feb 23, 2022 9:31:15 GMT -8
radusho perhaps it is, so what? Different cameras, one taken with 35mm film camera, one with digital camera, different lighting, different distance, and taken 25 years apart. You seem to know an awful lot about something you have no actual intimate knowledge about. Are you trying to prove something? Please tell us, so that we may all know.
Parrhasius m-album (Bdv. & Leconte) one of three drawers I have, all three drawers collected in UV light traps. You will note, this species too is listed in my 1973 publication as being collected in light traps.
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Post by kevinkk on Feb 23, 2022 9:52:36 GMT -8
Is there a time of day, like early evening when butterflies will fly into a light trap? Maybe I should get out more.
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Post by livingplanet3 on Feb 23, 2022 9:52:51 GMT -8
Until now, I wasn't aware that some butterflies could be collected so reliably with light traps. My own experience with catching insects using UV light is rather limited, but I have indeed seen various kinds of normally diurnal insects attracted by it, including cicadas and dragonflies.
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Post by kevinkk on Feb 23, 2022 9:54:38 GMT -8
Until now, I wasn't aware that some butterflies could be collected so reliably with light traps. My own experience with catching insects using UV light is rather limited, but I have indeed seen various kinds of normally diurnal insects attracted by it, including cicadas and dragonflies. Aha! I feel better now. |
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Post by vabrou on Feb 23, 2022 11:28:05 GMT -8
livingplanet3 I have posted a few boxes of Cicadas from my light traps captured mostly during just one of the past 53 years in the Homoptera section. Cicadas, flies, dragonflies and butterflies are more often collected during conditions of rains and high winds and bad weather. The facts of which I have no doubt is why no one reports this, they don't light trap in rainy bad weather. But I always do, because my traps operate automatically using photo-electric on/off controls at dusk and dawn.  |
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Post by trehopr1 on Feb 23, 2022 11:43:03 GMT -8
I think your "purple" example is simply a unique aberration. Had it not been for Vernon's steadfast and constant (survey) of the world around him; we might NOT know that such unique things can occur.
It is well known in England (for example) that collectors of the past occasionally captured "unique" aberrations of different butterfly species. In fact, when they did these examples were often "heralded" amongst their collector friends as well as in published notes and photographs.
I'm happy to see such an oddity as this and I am grateful that Vernon was kind enough to share it with all of us !
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Post by eleodes on Feb 23, 2022 18:38:25 GMT -8
I've personally had limited success (but still success) with attracting various diurnal species to lights by disturbing the nearby vegetation. I expect "bad" weather would produce the same results. In fact, I can think of at least one time when I had a bunch of dragonflies show up at a porch light during a late-night thunderstorm
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