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Post by joee30 on Jan 5, 2017 13:10:13 GMT -8
Very nice specimens indeed.
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Post by exoticimports on Jan 6, 2017 5:12:17 GMT -8
I'm out of space for more set specimens.
Chuck
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Post by leptraps on Jan 6, 2017 6:33:48 GMT -8
I can fix that problem for you in a hurry. What do you prefer, Cornell or Cal Academy!
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 6, 2017 12:29:32 GMT -8
But somehow it is also frustrating, I often have to think that assuming I will be able to go hunting till I am 80, that's only 53 summers left, only 53 times that you can try to be at the right spot at the right time to get the perfectly freshly emerged specimens. Then spread these 53 times over all the species that emerge at the same time, all the different localities, then you can perhaps only pick 20 species in your whole life where you will really be able to hit the perfect time. Or just trust on your luck that you accidentally are there. This year I had such one moment, when I was walking on a forest road and suddenly there were about 15 freshly emerged Gonepteryx rhamni females, I had never seen any before that time and never after and I went to that road every day for 30 days straight. It was just exactly the right time when they all emerged fed for the first time on flowers and then directly started laying eggs, and then you almost can't see them anymore flying around the trees without resting. Such moments are just magical, that's what I dream of during winter. Fresh out of pupae or hibernation? As this species emerges in summer, feeds for a short while and hibernates untill early spring when they mate and lay in April and May. Rich |
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Post by luehdorf on Jan 7, 2017 2:35:58 GMT -8
timmsyrj you are absolutely right, I mixed it up. I found them on the 30th of July, so they were indeed freshly emerged, you could still see a silvery shine on their wings. They must have fed for a day and directly went into hibernation and not flying around and laying eggs. In spring they come out from hibernation, are directly found by patroulling males, and start laying eggs,thats why its probably so difficult to see any in spring.
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Post by timmsyrj on Jan 7, 2017 3:21:53 GMT -8
I had males coming down to investigate my green iPhone 5c whilst I was fishing on a large gravel pit complex, they either thought it was a female or another male to chase away, I hadn't noticed, but it was 4am when I arrived, that I had set my fishing gear up next to a large alder buckthorn bush, one of their larval foodplants.
I did see a couple of females around but didn't see any egg laying going on.
Rich
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