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Hi All,
My age is definitely catching up with me. After a slow start with getting pairings in early June, things really started to pick in late June on PEI. once the weather changed. Derek Bridgehouse and I also took wild females in our annual trip to Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia, June 23-24: two female lunas, several female polyphemus, several female rubicunda and six female columbia. Derek and I were kept very busy with the many males which flew to the lights to try to access a calling cecropia, two of Derek's calling columbia (which had been refrigerated for ten days as emerged moths), and a calling polyphemus.
I perhaps have more than too many eggs. I hope to finish all my sleeving by tomorrow evening, July 18. It has been hot and humid after a cool wet spring, and I come in from the woods around noon, take off my perspiration soaked clothing, drink lots of water and some Gatorade, have a shower, get a bit of a rest and then head out to woods again from 2:30 to 6:30 or there-abouts to do more sleeving, then strip down, have another shower, eat some dinner and try to rehydrate. A couple of evenings I have gone down to the school to cut some more sleeve material at night and sew early the next morning. I will have to cut and sew up about a dozen more twelve foot long sleeves to accomodate the larvae waiting to be sleeved tomorrow morning, July 18.
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Many thanks to Bernhard Wenczel and Viktor Suter who have sent quite a few new images: Lemaireodirphia chiapasiana final instar from Chiapas, Mexico.
Bernard has also recently sent images of adults and/or larvae of Mexicantha arellanoi, Mexicantha garciorum, Coloradia oaxacensis, Rothschildia jorulla lichtenba, Automeris peigleri which have been uploaded.
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Many thanks to Derek Bridgehouse who has recently sent images of Hyalophora leonis
from Nuevo Leon, Mexico, and of Rothschildia mexicana
from Guanajuata, Mexico. Images have been uploaded to respective files.
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I have been receiving quite a few images of Saturniidae from Ceara, Brazil, and am regularly updating the check list for that Brazilian state. Most recently I have received Eacles imperialis cacicus, Rothschildia prionia and Rothschildia erycina. There are likely many more Saturniidae in Ceara than previously thought.
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Steve Bransky writes, August 6:
"Bill,
"I had a few cocoons of Calleta from three years ago never emerged. Today one of those emerged a three year old pupa. Amazingly beautiful male.
I almost threw then out figured they were not viable. Just unreal three years as a pupa. I have had promethea out to two years but this is the first time I have
recorded a three year gestation.
"Hope all is well.
"Steve"
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Sphingidae Express
Albert Thurman confirms Xylophanes belti in Chiriqui, Panama, with recto and verso images of a spread specimen. This is a first recording for belti in Panama. Images have been posted to the belti file.
Francierlem Oliveira recently surprised me with an image of Eupyrrhoglossum sagra from Rio Grande do Norte.
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Catocala Capers
Catocala minuta has been confirmed in Maryland by Jhonatan ...
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Please note: I reside in Canada at the following address and payment for Saturniidae livestock (eggs, cocoons, pupae) and/or sleeves must be sent to me only at this address:
Bill Oehlke
Box 476
155 Peardon Road
Montague, Prince Edward Island, C0A 1R0
Canada
Postage from USA to Canada is $1.25 (2015 rate) so please use that amount on your envelope with your payment.
If you are in US and order cocoons or pupae from me this fall or winter, you will probably see a New Jersey return address on the shipping box. Do not send payment to the New Jersey address; send it to name and address above please.
This website has been created and is maintained by Bill Oehlke without government or institutional financial assistance. All expenses, ie., text reference support material, webspace rental from Bizland and 1&1, computer repairs/replacements, backups systems, software for image adjustments (Adobe Photoshop; L-View), ftp software, anti-virus protection, scanner, etc. are my own. The one-time-life-time membership fee that is charged at the time of the registration covers most of those expenses.
I very much appreciate all the many images that have been sent to me, or of which I have been granted permission to copy and post from other websites. All images on this site remain the property of respective photographers.
If you would like to contribute to the maintenace of this website by sending a contribution to
Bill Oehlke
Box 476
155 Peardon Road
Montague, Prince Edward Island, C0A1R0
Canada
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1) paying for webspace rental;
2) paying for computer maintenance and software upgrades;
3) purchases of additional text reference material (journals and books) in an effort to stay current with new species;
I also hope to expand the North American Catocala site as well as the Sphingidae of the Americas site, to worldwide sites, and that will require additional funds for reference materials, etc. Both of those site are linked from your WLSS homepage.
If you are mailing a check from USA, please use $1.25 postage (2015 rate). Donations can also be made through Paypal via the button below.
Donations are not required to maintain your standing as a WLSS member, nor do they gain you any preferencial treatment with regard to livestock and/or supplies (sleeves), compared to other WLSS members. All WLSS members get first crack at my annual offerings and get an approximate discount of 10% as compared to non-members.
I do usually ask donors if they have any special requests for information on WLSS, and I try to accomodate when appropriate or within my ability to do so.