Butterflies and other insects of Peru

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12.10.2008 19:20, Алексей Яковлев

Thank you for the info, I know that. At the moment, my friend's peleides are feeding on clover, they are already being pupaed with might and main. The problem is that they don't lay eggs on our legumes, even though the caterpillars eat them. So I'm looking for mukuna...

If they're saving for a skim of peanuts, they should also save for our legumes! Try alfalfa or mouse peas. By the way, I saw Mimosa pudica everywhere on sale, it is all over Lat. It does not grow, but it has the protective property of folding the leaves when trying to lay eggs on them

. But the common beans that we eat, in general, come from South America, and morpho just have to eat it! Or maybe it's not the plant at all...

Mukuna, by the way, is interesting for its fruits, completely covered with short, hard hairs that dig into the skin. Even ants do not climb on the fruit. This is used by peleides, laying eggs directly on the mukuna beans.

Here are the fruits that are cute (I would have known, I would have picked them for you

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Mucuna urens. Monteverde. 2007

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07.12.2008 19:08, Алексей Яковлев

A little bit of beetles from the Tambopaty district.

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Erotylus sp. - a catchy representative of the Erotylidae in this area. But I didn't find the specific name anywhere

Homoeotelus sp. (Erotylidae)

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Dorynota godmani (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae). Although a very similar Dorynota storki was recently described in its habitat (http://www.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/katalog%20internetowy/dorynotastorki.htm)

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Platyphora aff. decorata

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male tarsier Brentus aff. anchorago

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Canthidium aff. gerstaeckeri (2 cm.)

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Semiotus sp. - a common genus of nutcrackers in Peru

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This beetle, Passalus sp. of the Passalidae, has been following us all over Peru

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Steirastoma (breve ?)

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Rutela lineola . In a dead beetle, the white spots turn yellow. Spotting in the species is very variable, from completely black to half white.

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26.02.2009 21:09, Guest

And it is very expensive in aesthetic and commercial terms. Although the absence of a belly in morfids, apparently, is considered almost the norm. In my opinion, any butterfly without a belly is not even A -, but B (an obvious marriage). Imagine, say, a hawk moth or a sailboat without a belly that is passed off as a high-quality specimen

And what about the genital apparatus necessary for accurate identification? As far as I know, in this group, despite the very bright color, there are species that are difficult to distinguish only in appearance and range. By the way, in specimens that have preserved the abdomen, I have never seen fattening of the hind wings or any hint of it. In general, the history of morpids is unclear.

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28.02.2009 13:07, Алексей Яковлев

The problem with the export of large diptera, which are more than 1-2 mm. They are ONLY supposed to be pricked, because of the hetotaxy and general tenderness. No mattresses. In the field, you have to contort yourself with a tattoo, including for a minute. Can you imagine it at customs? Wooden boxes with thousands of rows of impaled flies. One bad thing is that no one will plant cocaine, there are no greedy competitors

Cocaine was mixed with naphthalene anyway, so it was considered completely unusable, alas; (

And no one will force the boxes to be delivered to customs: put them in your luggage and that's the end of it. If there is nothing smelly and volatile that dogs are trained for , there will be no problems. Chitin on the X-ray does not stand out in any way.

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