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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 19:08:06 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 19:22:56 GMT -8
Apologies for doubting, and of course Eric is associated with angasii-I doubt there's a species in Africa he hasn't touched  Thanks for the additional info! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 22:32:25 GMT -8
No problem cacicus101, between my errors in spelling and the oddness of each, I can't say I blame you for doubting......  |
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Post by mothman27 on Mar 28, 2016 17:27:33 GMT -8
Got some hail and rain yesterday. Still only seen a couple butterflies.  |
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Post by mothman27 on Apr 11, 2016 8:05:11 GMT -8
Hi trehopr, Thank you very much for the generous comments; I am a bit of a perfectionist with my mounts of insects (especially huge, colourful tropical spp.) as I believe that if they were killed solely for the purpose of mere display... well... I just want to pay proper homage to them by making them look as good as possible, plus some can be very pricey & demand careful preparation... Following is a photo (taken with my phone... hope it comes out okay) of a Giant Water Bug from French Guiana Lethocerus maximus. It shows the extent to which I will go when I mount bugs... this bug, believe it or not, took me about 1.5 hrs. to do. A large Megasoma actaeon, for example, mounted in the flying position, may take me 2.5-3 hrs. to complete & may take 3-4X the number of pins shown below. This water bug is truly a giant being 105mm long in body length & 200mm (8") in wingspan. In George Beccaloni's book "Big Bugs Life Size" is pictured the supposedly world record size L. maximus with a body length of 103mm & a wingspan of 213mm (8.5"). Mine is a half inch less in wingspan, but has a slightly (+2mm) longer body. I'm pretty sure that there are specimens which will be collected (or already exist, but are hidden away, in obscure $$ private collections), that will have 120-125mm body lengths & 9-10" wingspans. I will post a photo of this bad boy (depinned) & a few other bigger spp. after X-mas/New Yrs. Any photos? |
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Post by bugboys3 on Jan 30, 2018 12:25:55 GMT -8
 I enjoyed this thread last year and thought I would add a couple of my drawers now that I have had time to organize my collection a bit this winter. I saw in a previous post a mention of David Bouton. Much of what I am going to post here is from his collection that he collected in Central and South America. |
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Post by bugboys3 on Jan 30, 2018 12:26:59 GMT -8
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Post by bugboys3 on Jan 30, 2018 12:27:53 GMT -8
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Post by bugboys3 on Jan 30, 2018 12:28:41 GMT -8
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Post by bugboys3 on Jan 30, 2018 12:32:06 GMT -8
 Not all the specimens are in great shape. Many had some dermestid damage. |
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Post by antsrule on Jan 31, 2018 15:11:36 GMT -8
Did you buy or collect these?
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Post by bugboys3 on Jan 31, 2018 15:33:47 GMT -8
Did you buy or collect these? I did not collect any of these myself. They were given to me by a friend who new David Bouton. Most were collected by him in the late 1970's-80's. |
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Post by lordpandarus on Feb 1, 2018 16:31:30 GMT -8
There's an Heliconius heurippa in there. Never saw one for sale
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Post by rayrard on Feb 1, 2018 17:32:45 GMT -8
I wonder how Bouton distributed his collection. We had a bunch of his material in the Yale Peabody collection
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Post by jhyatt on Feb 2, 2018 6:46:15 GMT -8
Towards the end some of it was sold on Ebay, but it was mostly obviously the dregs. I got a couple of these bugs just for old times' sake. I received some wonderful specimens from Dave back in the day.
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