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Post by lordpandarus on Jan 14, 2012 15:09:01 GMT -8
I finally got one. These things are huge Attachments:
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 16, 2012 3:34:31 GMT -8
Can anyone supply Ova of these beauties, this is one species i would love to breed.
Rich
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Post by leptraps on Jan 16, 2012 19:00:04 GMT -8
I had the good fortune to live in the mountains of western Virginia for over eleven years. I collected them in my back yard on occasion! However, the albino male was collected in 1984 at Kingdom Come State Park, Harlan County, Kentucky. In 1979 I actual saw a bilateral grand gynandromorho in Poverty Hollow, Montgomery County, Virginia. I also have green females which are a regular occurrence in nature. Attachments:
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Post by leptraps on Jan 16, 2012 19:04:22 GMT -8
In 1989 I collected a melanic female in Poverty Hollow, Montgomery County, Virginia. It is the top specimen in the photograph. I collected 11 aberrant butterflies in Virginia. I can post some photographs if anyone is interested? Attachments:
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Post by timsbugs on Jan 16, 2012 19:14:58 GMT -8
I would love to see them!!  Tim PS I still love your trap! |
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Post by lordpandarus on Jan 17, 2012 10:32:01 GMT -8
I'm wondering about my specimen. Some areas the scales appear to be thinner and I can see the underside pattern showing through in the picture, but it doesn't seem to be rubbed (it's ex-pupae)
I shows uniformly dark then I look at it though .Maybe it's just the picture or I set the hind wings lower than most people here
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Post by wollastoni on Jan 17, 2012 10:52:11 GMT -8
LP < you have Japanese setting !  I also more and more tend to apply this kind of lower HW setting. It suits well to Delias species. |
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Post by lordpandarus on Jan 17, 2012 10:55:39 GMT -8
Well I try not to go "too Japanese" . Somewhere in the middle
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Post by rayrard on Jan 17, 2012 22:46:33 GMT -8
In 1989 I collected a melanic female in Poverty Hollow, Montgomery County, Virginia. It is the top specimen in the photograph. I collected 11 aberrant butterflies in Virginia. I can post some photographs if anyone is interested? yeah! I'd love to collect ONE abberrant. i have a few leps with reduced pattern, but nothing I'd call an aberrant. Except a pink male Io Moth... but that could have been heat shock to the pupae as I kept in indoors. |
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Post by kirkwilliams on Jan 26, 2012 14:00:31 GMT -8
I have a few E.P. male S. diana for trade.
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Post by leptraps on Jan 20, 2014 9:26:53 GMT -8
I forgot to post the photographs of some of my Virginia aberrants. Here are a few. I have 20 or 25 more should anyone be interested. Pterourus glaucus: Beside being an abereant, it is also a gynandromorph of some type.  A couple of Pterourus glaucus inbetweens.  A Speyeria cybele  Colias Eurytheme. The bottom specimen was the very first butterfly I collected as a Virginia resident.  |
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Post by joee30 on Jan 20, 2014 14:20:02 GMT -8
I got to enjoy seeing the females out one September in Easter TN with Tom(Beetlehorn) One year ago. They are amazing to watch as they nectar on thistles at the end of the collecting season. I need to go back and collect some again. Hopefully this year.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 20, 2014 14:35:18 GMT -8
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