Bob Vuattoux
Hi All,
Happy Valentine's Day to all.
As of February 1, 2017, all that I have left for sale within Canada are a small number of Samia cynthia cocoons.
As of January 22, all species are sold out in USA. There may be some late spring to early summer non-diapausing luna and/or polyphemus cococons that become available, and there my be some Heraclides cresphontes pupae that become available. If you are interested in being placed on a notification list for any of those, please let me know well in advance so I can contact you when they are confirmed or anticipated.
I hope to have egg price list posted in the March Newsletter as some of my US egg shippers have lunas and even cecropia eggs available from the southern states in March. Always when placing an egg order, please provide your complete address so i know best when to contact you about availabilty of eggs.
I am making slow but steady progress with the new species designations from 2016. I am working on Copaxa and at the same time that I am trying to incorporate the new species into the data base, I am also trying to create country by country comparison plates to aid us all with identifications. I think there will be many cases where the best ids I can offer from digital images will be one or two possibiities. More precise determinations would probably require barcoding.
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On February 6, 2017 I received this email tribute note from Robert Lemaitre:
"Sad news: at the end of January, Bob (Vuattoux) was 71 years old and was carried away by pulmonary congestion."
Goodbye
Bob Vuattoux is no longer
A great man
A mountain of knowledge
An unbeatable "hybridizer"
A globalist before time
Letting meet the saturniids of the world
Having opened the door
To the crossing of the Isabelle
To all possible Actias
From the four corners of the planet
Full of thoughts to his family
His nexts and friends.
A tribute from all the entomologists to which he transmitted and shared his passions and his interests Insectomaniak, the OPIE, the Museum and many other breeders.
Many or Bob Vuattoux's images of hybrids appear in the Hybrid Index section of the website. I very much enjoyed Bob' contributions to the WLSS.
Bob Vuattoux
I have received many new images from Ceara, Brazil, a state which has been very poorly sampled up until now. Sampling for DNA barcoding is happening to a limited extent and at least four new species have been recorded for Ceara in the last several years. Quite a few species, new to Ceara but otherwise known, have been added to the Ceara checklist. Among them is a beautiful image (first live one) of Rothschildia prionia. Check out the updated Ceara page if you get a chance.
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Mike Buczkowski has recently sent me some images of spread specimens. Mike includes verso images with his submissions and that is extremely helpful. He recently sent images of Nuduarelia anna allardi, marking first time this species is depicted on WLSS. Also very nice to receive Titaea orsinome male and female verso images from Mike.
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Derek Bridgehouse has sent me some Hyalophora columbia variations from Malay Falls, Nova Scotia. I hope to get them posted soon. +++++++++++++++++++
Catocala Capers
Larry Gall writes, "Hi folks, Darryl Willis and I have put together another large crop of Catocala eggs in 2016. Please feel free to request eggs from me by email, for any/all of these. Darryl still has several additional females going of amatrix, marmorata, robinsonii, vidua, and ulalume, but we don’t know yet what their egg production status is.
"I'd like to try to fulfill all shipments by mid December, and hopefully will be able to split the broods up if many of you request the same species. If you have eggs of any species to offer in exchange I'd also like to hear about that, especially any egg clutches of minuta or western species. Please feel free to forward this to any of your colleagues. Best, Larry"
SPECIESangusi |
HOSTPLANTJuglandaceae |
BROODA16 | LOCALITYConcord, NC | COLL
D. Willis | DATE29-Aug-2016 |
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New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA
http://www.peabody.yale.edu
email: lawrence.gall@yale.edu
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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 (2017 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
your donation would be much appreciated and would be used for
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.