Hi All,
Thanks to all who sent me info about flight times for Antheraea polyphemus and oculea. Please send more, especially from the southern states and Canada. Summaries are available through polyphemus article or members' articles section on site.
Received this on February 24 from a non-member:
"Today my wife and I saw this moth outside a laundromat in Naples, Fl
at about 1 PM EDT. It was our first observation of this beautiful
creature and quite exciting for us, especially my wife. It seemed to
be disoriented or groggy, but when we left it, it seemed to be OK
hanging onto a branch of a hedge. I just thought you might like to
know of this sighting."
I have just completed "State by State" listings for all U.S. species. Any data that you send for any species can now easily be added for the benefit of all.
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I have posted an extensive listing of eggs available from Martin Jagelka of Slovakia in the Eggs Available Section. Check it out.
I have also posted a listing of overwintering Saturniidae eggs from Shin-ichi Ohshima of Japan
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Special thanks goes to Tony Pittaway and Bernhard Wenczel, who are primary sources, and to Martin Jagelka (Slovakia and Czech Republic), Kurt Himmelbauer (Austria and Italy) and Mario Ioppolo (Italy) for their help with active checklists for Europe, Eurasia and Northern Africa. Maps are also included in the new Country by Country Checklists Section.
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My father, Don Oehlke, 34 McCann Mill Road, Pottersville, New Jersey 07979 has Actias luna and Callosamia promethea cocoons at $3.50 U.S; Samia cynthia at $4.00; Hyalophora cecropia again available at $5.00 and and Papilio glaucus and Papilio troilus (spicebush swallowtail) pupae for $3.50, and an assortment of Sphingidae pupae at $3.50: Amorpha juglandis, Ceratomia undulosa, Paonias myops. There is minimum order of $20.00 and there is one shipping and handling charge of $6.00 in U.S. Citheronia regalis are now sold out. You can confirm availability at 908-439-2462. He is also now taking email
gamster28@hotmail.com
He is also offering cocoons of hybrid Antheraea polyphemus x Antheraea oculea. He describes them as looking like Antheraea polyphemus (form) olivacea adults. See them at
http://www.insectcompany.com/silkmoth/thuffmanapo.htm
He has about fifty cocoons. price is $5.00/cocoon plus shipping and handling. Please confirm and reserve by email before sending any money.
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Teemu Klemetti and Eric van Schayck have sent me Epiphora styrax images. Many thanks to those who have assisted with identifications.
Teemu has also sent images of Epiphora (vacuna) getula from R.C.A, Epiphora retifascia female from Cameroon, Epiphora albida female from Cameroon, Bunaeopsis hersilia pagei female from Cameroon, Epiphora albicans female from Cameroon
Jay Lindh has recently sent me nice images of spread Saturniidae from Leyte in the Philippines. They are now posted.
Many new images from Japan in Rhodinia and Caligula sections courtesy of Shin-ichi Ohshima.
See the new images by Mario Iopollo in the hybrid section (H. columbia and euryalus) and in the photography section.
Very nice picture of Hyalophora cecropia moth sent in by Herb Jennings.
I have posted two articles in Bill's Articles section and an interesting article by John V. Irion in the Members' Articles Section.
New images have also come in from Carlot Didier and Charles DeRoller.
Contributions by others are welcome. I am very grateful for all the sharing that goes on with members, and especially what comes here.
Harry Becker, mothlover@videotron.ca is looking for a few cocoons, or later ova, of H.gloveri, columbia, and euryalus. He will buy or trade for other. I have posted his request in the Members' Wish Section. If you have a request, please forward it to me.
***************Coming for Christmas!***************
Christmas of 2003 is a long way off but I have set it as a goal for first release of cd of WLSS. I did a "cd burn" from my home backup files the other day and it turned out beautiful. Images and pages load up instantaneously!
I must respect the promises made to many photographers who have sent me high resolution images; I will only release those images at resolution of 72 as per display on internet site. It is going to take quite a while to resize the many images all into one directory file so that I can do a "burn". I expect the price of the cd will be $15.00 - $25.00 U.S. for members and will only be available to members.
I have contacted most of the "primary image contributors" and response has been very positive.
There are many members who have contributed smaller amounts of images/information. Unless I hear otherwise, I am assuming I have your permission to use images with credit to you. I will, however, try to contact everyone directly about image use.
I will be asking a few individuals to do do preliminary checks on complimentary cds before doing the release to members.
********COUNTRY BY COUNTRY CHECKLISTS********
The Southeast Asia section is now linked from the main page; most country by country checklists are now active. The European and Eurasian checklists are also now active or shortly will be.
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Thibaud Decaens has made an interesting suggestion:
"One thing that would be nice to have on the web page is a list of publications on Saturniidae. What do you think? I can provide a list of the few publication I have yet published with an abstract of each one, then interested persons may ask me by mail for reprints..."
I say, "Send me any lists you have and I will begin posting."
Thibaud's first and second "abstracts" have been posted in the new "Publications Section". Pictures of new Automeris and Dirphiopsis species are available.
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Membership access is at
http://www.insectcompany.com/silkmoth/kurthi.htm
No password or login is necessary.
Please remember to keep access information confidential as I wish to put new registration fees toward purchase of Lemaire's new book on the Hemileucinae. The book is expensive (around $350.00), but extremely well done according to all reports I have read.
I would also ask that you encourage other Saturniidae enthusiasts to visit the introduction to the WORLD'S LARGEST SATURNIIDAE SITE at http://www.silkmoths.bizland.com/indexos.htm
The site will continue to grow and I believe there is nothing comparable to it on the internet.
Click on reload or restore if it doesn't load up first time.
Thanks again to Clive Pratt of the Insect Company for hosting the site. Clive offers dried specimens of any insects and has an extensive listing of Saturniidae.
********NEWSLETTERS:***********
The Mothly Newsletter (not a typo) will be sent out monthly via email.
If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, let me know and I will remove your name from the newsletter mailing list. Same applies to "Sphinx Express" for the fast-fliers' enthusiasts.
I am now using a new mailout system that saves me a considerable amount of time. I group members by states/provinces/countries and send out group mailings instead of individual mailings.
The only possible "problem" with this system is it provides your email address to the 5-15 other members in your group. If this is a problem for you, let me know and I will remove your name from the group list and do an individual mailout for you.
Membership continues to grow and I now archive all editions of the "Mothly Newsletter" on site. That may provide an interesting historical overview of the site's development and will allow new members to "catch up" on things they might have missed.
*********SPECIAL REQUESTS*********
Save your empty cocoons for Carol Neeves. She works with the silk and would like all the empties you can send her. Carol has just set me a write up with pictures to show what she does with the silk (now posted in Members' Articles section).
Neeves, Carol, 1609 Ponderosa Drive, Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57103 CANeeves@aol.com
Janet Hightower is also looking for empty cocoons. She is doing a project on making rattles out of cocoons, and promises us some images and an article after she makes some noisemakers.
Janet Hightower, 1319 Ahlrich Avenue, Encinitas, California 92024 janet@scripps.edu
*********KIRBY WOLFE*********
Kirby continues to be a great help to me with information and has recently sent an image of Caligula japonica.
*********BUTTERFLIES*********
I intend to do a website on North American butterflies and look forward to doing scans of Leroy Simon images which are "in the mail".
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