Post by thanos on Dec 11, 2012 0:28:34 GMT -8
Yes, but I don't think that someone (even if he knows the best places, best flight times, and has good collecting technique) can catch many females of e.g. acraeoides, fournierae etc at one time. Otherwise we would have seen more such specimens offered in the market..
As you mentioned a Limenitidinae example (E. thauma is a really beautiful butterfly and reasonably got its species' name from the Greek word 'thauma' which means miracle), I will refer here to the case of the female of Limenitis populi in Greece. It is a really very rare sight here and, if you except my personal catches, all the rest collectors (not only the Greek ones) have captured here only a couple of females so far, while most of them haven't even seen a single female flying.. It seems that I'm the only one who has spotted the exact place and time for the females here, so to have collected over 50 of them the last years (sometimes I see more than 30 within a few hours !), but the right place when this happens is extremely limited inside a huge forest..and you have to meet the perfect weather conditions within probably less than 5 days each season..(otherwise, even at that exact place, you will see very few females, and worn). When I told how many I have found to the other collectors here, they told me 'are you joking?', until they saw them in my collection
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Norton, is this true
As you mentioned a Limenitidinae example (E. thauma is a really beautiful butterfly and reasonably got its species' name from the Greek word 'thauma' which means miracle), I will refer here to the case of the female of Limenitis populi in Greece. It is a really very rare sight here and, if you except my personal catches, all the rest collectors (not only the Greek ones) have captured here only a couple of females so far, while most of them haven't even seen a single female flying.. It seems that I'm the only one who has spotted the exact place and time for the females here, so to have collected over 50 of them the last years (sometimes I see more than 30 within a few hours !), but the right place when this happens is extremely limited inside a huge forest..and you have to meet the perfect weather conditions within probably less than 5 days each season..(otherwise, even at that exact place, you will see very few females, and worn). When I told how many I have found to the other collectors here, they told me 'are you joking?', until they saw them in my collection
.Norton, is this true
