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Post by homard on Jun 10, 2012 14:03:10 GMT -8
BTW Alex, I must say your avatar image of Parnassius autocrator female is a splendid specimen  . Probably the best one Iv'e seen yet. Is it one of your specimens? Tom Tom: many thanks for your compliments! This female Autocrator is the only specimen that I had collected personally. The attached story is too long to describe here. Enought to say that I've got some intestinal desease there when I've ascended to Vanch mt. range. I thought I will die there. Igor' Pliustsch had saved me with the iodine+starch mixture. This hellish mixture virtually burned out all my intestinals with all the infection. Thus I'm alive still  So ths specimen is too precious for me! |
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Post by beetlehorn on Jun 11, 2012 9:33:48 GMT -8
Wow! Thats an impressive story. You actually collected P. autocrater!?! I can only dream of such an expedition, their habitat is halfway around the world for me, and I simply don't have the time or money to even consider a trip like that. Maybe someday this hobby will take me to such far away places not only to collect but experience the surrounding habitat, which is also a big part of the whole adventure for me.
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Post by beetlehorn on Jun 11, 2012 16:45:44 GMT -8
To get "back on track" with the subject matter on hand, I would like to share another sample of the mini Catocalas I collected this spring. This is a more detailed view of spread specimens. From top left to right, we have C. micronympha F."gisela", C.micronympha F."hero", C.micronympha F."lolita", and the nominate form C. micronympha. Next row we have C. grynea, C. connubialis F."cordelia", and in the last row is C. minuta, and C. amica. I know they all look sort of the same, but the variation of a good number of specimens is what makes a collection so intriguing. Tom Attachments:
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Post by joee30 on Jun 11, 2012 17:24:29 GMT -8
I've seen a couple of similar orange underwings here in Ft. Campbell. I only collected 5 so far, along with some Citheronia regalis, a huge female Cecropia that has given me a huge batch of eggs, an Io moth, a polyphemus, and some cool arctiids. I've also managed to find some really early Lucanus elephas, which I am very excited about, and am waiting to collect Dynastes tityus.
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Post by nusferatus369 on Jun 17, 2012 19:03:26 GMT -8
lucke you tom
Here in Quebec catocala will star in july
Do you hunt catocala with sugaring also or only at light.
nice catch i will like catch epione, coccinata, micronympha, amica. some rare catocala in Quebec
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Post by beetlehorn on Jun 19, 2012 17:25:02 GMT -8
Sorry for not replying sooner, but to answer your question, yes I also do sugaring on trees, and use bait traps. I employ fermented fruit mixed with brown sugar, and when it gets to the right state of fermentation it can at times be very productive. Generally speaking it is best during drought years, and my theory on this is that during a drought, there are far less feeding sources such as wild fruit, so the bait draws in more individuals. It is at times like this you get the chance at the more uncommon ones such as Catocala nebulosa. Tom
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Post by kingha on Jul 7, 2012 10:22:38 GMT -8
108 species in North America
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Post by homard on Jul 9, 2012 4:11:30 GMT -8
A rare night guest - Catocala elocata. On last night, my daughter-in-law (son's wife I mean) had rushed into my studio with a glass jar containing the fluttering big Catocala who'd flew into the kitchen! OMG! Even on a spot I recognized that it's not our common C. nupta but a very rare C. elocata or C.electa. Immediately, a chloroform on a tisssue paper was added into a jar, a moth soon was dreaming with the eternal sleep... Forgive me please dear Catocala! You're so beautiful! Here's the picture.  A week or so before, another guest had flew into the kitchen - Catocala puerpera. Though it was abslolute perfect, I did not mount it saving it for some renowned US specialist. Here is a pic of a last year's Puerpera who'd flew into a kitchen too  |
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Post by kingha on Jul 9, 2012 13:10:27 GMT -8
here in the States Catocala fly until the first or second frost...usually mid October here in southern Michigan
some species are late season...not even on the wing until late August to September..
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. Probably the best one Iv'e seen yet. Is it one of your specimens? Tom
So ths specimen is too precious for me!
