Eudaemonia argus female, Abuja, Nigeria,
March 2010, courtesy of Sebastian Brandner.
Hi All,
Happy Easter to everyone! We're having a beautiful sunny day, April 4, on PEI. If the weather continues mild, as it did all winter, we may start seeing butterflies in very late April. Usually I don't see them here til around Mother's Day.
I recently had some computer problems and had to replace my video card. It's time again to do DVD backups of all my sites.
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If you wish to send an enquiry or egg order, please be sure to include your complete shipping address in the email text of your message. Please also give me approximate dates as to when you would be ready to begin receiving eggs.
There are some freshly harvested Hemileuca nevadensis egg rings from Nevada available now (April 15) if anyone would like to try this species.
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Visit Egg availability and prices 2010: Non diapausing livestock
Actias luna and Antheraea polyphemus are pairing now April 7-8 in Alabama. If you want eggs of this multi-brooded stock now, please specify species, quantity and be sure to send complete shipping address in your email.
Another luna paring occurred in Alabama and fresh luna eggs are again available as of April 14.
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Ian Surman writes, "Just a quick note to let you know that I have reared Antheraea pernyi successfully this winter on Eucalyptus gunni. You may want to put this on your list of foodplants, as many people believe that they have to use Evergreen oak if they want to rear this species through the winter."
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Mike Buczkowski confirms presence of Nudaurelia macrothyris in southern Tanazania, with specimens taken in December-January in Mbeya Region and Mtwara Region. Mike also indicates Pseudobunaea callista flies in Imalinyi, Njombe District, Iringa Province, Tanzania. Both are additions to the Tanzania checklists.
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Sebastian Brandner has just sent this beautiful image of a female Eudaemonia argus from Abuja, Nigeria.
Eudaemonia argus female, Abuja, Nigeria,
March 2010, courtesy of Sebastian Brandner.
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Thibaud Decaens has recently sent me beautiful images of male, female, pair in copula and larva of Lobobunaea goodii from Gabon. It is the first time the larva is depicted on the WLSS. A foodplant is listed for the first time for this species.
Lobobunaea goodii fifth instar, La Lope National Park, Ogooue-Ivindo, Gabon,
reared on Eucalyptus rotundifolia, courtesy of Thibaud Decaens.
WLSS member Frank Meister from Germany writes,
"Dear Bill,
Could you please add in our Website some news about my book dealing with Foodplants of worldwide Saturniidae.
I started working on the book two years ago. The first part of the book provides instructions about the breeding of wild silkmoths.
The second part consists of a world checklist with all decribed Saturniidae with all their synonyms and the foodplants in the wild and captivity.
The book will be complete with English and German languages.
I need from all collecters and breeders worlwide foodplant lists from all species worldwide.
I need your help and would like very happy if you can start a mail action and an appeal on your website."
Please send your foodplants to Frank Meister.
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Does anyone happen to have any more info than the very little there is available, anywhere, on eclosing the African pupators? Please share your success with the rest of us. Your responses will be credited to you and will be posted to Members' Articles section for future reference.
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Good idea to check the Bad Traders Reports periodically as I am sure the occurence of fraud is only going to become more prevalant in the future.
Member Ryan St. Laurent sent me an email he received from a bad character.
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Gary Saunders has sent larval images (all instars) of Cricula elaezia (first time depicted on WLSS) as well as foodplants.
Cricula elaezia fifth instars, courtesy of Gary Saunders
Actias rhodopneuma male, October 18, 2009, courtesy of Gary Saunders
Stefan Naumann has sent significant updates to the Salassa file with names, images and data for many recently described species.
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Sphingidae Express
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Arctiidae Art
Kirby Wolfe indicates he will be sending me many electronic images of Arctiidae from Costa Rica. I will shortly begin construction of a worldwide Arctiidae site. Those who wish to contribute images of adults and/or larvae or any other stages are welcome to do so. All images that I use remain the property of respective photographers.
I am working on creating the text files and orgainizing names at this stage. It will probably be after Christmas that I do first posting.
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Catocala Capers
Andrew Timchenko of Moscow, Russia writes, "I would like to exchange with anyone who can offer a good variety of Catocala and next some other moths of Nearctica. I can offer everything I keep in my stocks (unfortunately I did not prepare a good list of my sp-s for exchange - too many even to identify)...
"I will appreciate exchange with some reliable persons at the end of each coll. season would be just perfect! So, my main interest will be CATOCALA and secondary some other popular familis & genera."
Email: Andrew Timchenko.
Andrew is a WLSS member who has sent me many very nice digital images for posting to WLSS over the years. I have no reason to doubt his integrity, and I suspect some of you will engage in mutually satisfying exchanges. Bill Oehlke.
I have made great progress on state by state pictoral checklists over the last couple of weeks. Congratlutions to David Hawks and Larry Gall for March publications of their Catocala research. I have been updated the site, based on recent changes/classifications/synonyms.
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Caterpillars Too!, a North American butterfly website:
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A new Coleoptera (Beetles) page is being created.
This page will be resricted to those members of WLSS who have an interest in Coleoptera (Beetles) and who are willing to have their email addresses posted there for correspondence, limited to the Coleoptera family.
This list will not be available through any search engines and will not be linked by me from any of my websites. Instead, those members who register (no charge) will be directed to an unlisted URL.
Members whose names appear on this list have agreed to use the contact information solely for the purpose of furthering their interests in Coleoptera.
Members have also agreed that they will neither post this list/page nor divulge its contents nor share its contents with others.
To have your name and email contact information posted on the Coleoptera page, send email to Bill Oehlke, indicating you agree to terms above.
N.B. This is note a Coleoptera site, just a listing of contact info for WLSS members with an interest in Coleoptera.
Two new names have been added to the Coleoptera page as of January 16, 2009.
There are also quite a few members interested in Sphingidae, so I will post special Sphingidae page under same conditions. I am also considering an African Sphingidae section if there is sufficient interest and those who can supply high quality images.
A Catocala page will also be posted.
If you wish to have your name, location, interests and email posted on the Coleoptera, Sphingidae or Catocala contacts page, please let me know.
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