Maltagorea fusicolor female, Behenjy, Ambatolampy, Madagascar,
1370m, courtesy of Patrick Basquin.
Photo of the Year 2015: Larva
Citheronia andina fifth instar, courtesy of Leroy Simon.
Maltagorea fusicolor female, Behenjy, Ambatolampy, Madagascar,
1370m, courtesy of Patrick Basquin.
Photo of the Year 2015: Larva
Citheronia andina fifth instar, courtesy of Leroy Simon.
Hi All,
In Canada I am completely sold out of cocoons and pupae.
I shipped cocoons to US WLSS members in late October while I was in New Jersey. As of December 16 I still have the following available for shipping within the US: luna, polyphemus, promethea, homogena, calleta cocoons. That is all that I have available.
If you wish to place an order, please include the following three items in your email to me:
1) Complete shipping address
2) Species and quantities desired
3) Your preferred payment method: I can accept personal checks (preferred); International money orders in US funds; Cashier's checks in US funds; Paypal in US funds.
With paypal there is a 4% Paypal transaction fee.
Here is what is left from the Fall 2015 Pricelist:
Because I still have a large inventory of luna and polyphemus, and a couple of US breeders who regularly supply me also have surplus numbers of those two species, I am offering them at reduced prices as of December 16, 2015. Prices are listed below:
Actias luna reduced to 5.00/cocoon to 4.50 if you order ten or more;
Agapema homogena $7.50/cocoon; seldom offered; yes; at reduced prices this year as there is a larger supply; seldom offered, nice cocoons
Antheraea polyphemus reduced to 5.00/cocoon to $4.50 if you order ten or more;
Callosamia promethea reduced to 4.50/cocoon, only about twenty left.
Eupackardia calleta $6.50/cocoon, to hatch spring or fall of 2016, only about a dozen left.
Smaller orders will be shipped First Class Mail with a tracking number. Larger orders will be shipped Priority.
If you wish to place an order, do not send payment yet, but please do send right away the following information in an email back to me:
1) Your complete shipping address
2) Species and quantities of each that you would like to receive
3) Your method of payment personal check (preferred) or paypal. With Paypal there is a paypal fee of 4% that would be added to your total price,
and that can increase the price rather dramatically if you place a large order. I can also accept international postal money orders or bank international
money orders in US funds, but please note they have to be international money orders.
Do not send any payment until I have confirmed your order.
Bill Oehlke
Box 476
Montague, PE, C0A 1R0
Canada
Check with post office before you mail the payment to make sure you have correct postage. It might even be more than $1.25 by time you are ready to send it.
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I have received the two 2015 Entomo-Satsphingia journals that deal with Saturniidae, and am working on updating files and creating new files for the genera/species covered.
Right now I am working on the new Aglia species and have created the new files and a comparison table for this genus.
I am going to work now on the new Hidripa described in 2015, and then, by request, am going to work on Brazil updates and completion of the Brazilian files at the new site location.
I have recently updated Othorene, Parahodia, Solus, Hidripa and have created Panama comparison tables for Oxyteninae, Arsenurinae, Saturniini, Attacini from Panama.
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I have just received and posted a digital image of a live male Gonimbrasia (Nudaurelia) macrothyris from Umwinsidale, Harare, Zimbabwe, taken December 15, 2015, courtesy of Vivienne Croisette, via Daniel Marlos.
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I recently received and posted images of a Cerodirphia brunnea interrupta male, from Amboro National Park, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, January, 2015, courtesy of Andrew Gilpin, via John Christensen. It is the first time this subspecies is depicted on the WLSS.
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I have added Beech / Fagus to the host plant list for Automeris randa, based on information from Mike Buczkowski who has had success with that host.
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My oldest daughter, Lindsay, has begun marketing ear rings featuring laminated moth wings, mostly of males hatched from my breeding stock or from wild males that have flown in to my caged female Saturniidae or Sphingidae. She is pictured below wearing Hyalophora columbia and Actia luna.
Lindsay Oehlke wearing Hyalophora columbia.
Lindsay Oehlke wearing Actias luna.
Lindsay also has some Costa Rican butterflies on display from the butterfly house at the Prince Edward Island Preserve Company. Wings are carefully separated from deceased specimens, laminated and cut out. Holes are punched-out in appropriate places in the laminating film so the wings are free swinging from their hooks. Single or double wings can be purchased for each ear in a set.
The jewellry is durable, quite eyecatching and has proven very popular at a recent showing in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. Contact Lindsay directly via Lindsay Oehlke.
Lindsay is now selling these items on-line and at craft fairs (Etsy) as opposed to having them in craft stores. Prices are reduced as stores are no longer getting their share and there is no obligation on Lindsay's part to reduce prices. If you are interested, I can bring the ear rings with me to New Jersey and in some cases, (larger order) ship the ear rings in same box as cocoons.
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Sphingidae Express
Tony James recently sent me some Sphingidae images from St. Lucia. Among them is a live image (first time live image depicted on Sphingidae of the Americas) of Eumorpha vitis fuscata.
I have yet to finish the posting of the images that Tony sent, but I hope to work on them the third week in December.
Ezequiel Bustos rece3ntly sent me the most up to date publication for the Sphingidae of Argentina, and I have made many updates to files in that folder. Most of them have now been posted.
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Catocala Capers
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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
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.