Lindsay Oehlke wearing Hyalophora columbia.
Lindsay Oehlke wearing Actias luna.
Hi All,
In Canada I have only about fifty more polyphemus cocoons and about fifteen cecropia cocoons available as of November 9. All of the luna, columbia and Pachysphinx modesta cocoons/pupae have been sold.
I shipped cocoons to US WLSS members in late October while I was in New Jersey. As of November 9 I still have the following available for shipping within the US: luna, polyphemus, io, promethea, cynthia, homogena cocoons; one Eacles imperialis male pupa; black swallowtail and spicebush swallowtail chrysalids
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 Fall 2015 Pricelist:
I do expect to have reasonable numbers of most species that are usually offered. Prices are listed below:
Actias luna $5.25/cocoon; yes
Agapema homogena $8.00/cocoon; seldom offered; yes; at reduced prices this year as there is a larger supply; seldom offered, nice cocoons
Antheraea polyphemus $5.50/cocoon; yes
Automeris io; 5.50, yes
Callosamia promethea; 5.25; yes
Eacles imperialis; one male pupa at $7.00
Samia cynthia, $5.50; yes
Butterflies:
Pterourus troilus, Spicebush swallowtail; $5.25; yes, but only four left
Papilio polyxenes asterius, Eastern Black Swallowtail; 5.50; yes
Shipping and handling on all orders within US will be $9.00 whether you order a single item or 100 items, etc.
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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Andy Rosen recently sent me very nice images of females of Attacus aurantiacus and Attacus paraliae. These images are nicer than the ones previously depicted on the WLSS, and I have posted them on respective pages. Andy also sent wingspans and August as a collecting/flight month.
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I recently placed an order with Frank Meister for the two 2015 Entomo-Satsphingia journals dealing with Saturniidae. I will update the site as soon as the journals arrive.
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I am still working on moving WLSS to a new location which will not require a login and password. I am also relocating Kirby Wolfe, Leroy Simon, Thibaud Decaens, Bernhard Wenczel sites/files, etc., to new subdirectories to comply with webspace provider mandates with regard to the number of files that I can have in a root directory or in subsequent subdirectories. Progress has been slow but steady. Now that rearing season and bulk of sales seasons are largely over, I will have more time to update sites and move files to their new locations.
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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
Mike Quinn recently sent me the following Sphingidae images from southern Texas for identification. +++++++++++++++++++
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.