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I wonder if there’s an ultraviolet pattern on the plain females.

Great footage David unusual that they just eat leaves normally lycaenids eat either the flower buds or developing seed pods of the hostplant👍

Lets go rickyyyy

Awesome to see so many butterflies in the wild👍

Crazy looking sawfly caterpillar on willow we get similar species in the uk which feed an hawthorn crategus monogyma they make beautiful shiny gold metallic cocoons👍

Did you see that the monarch butterfly population this year is the worst it’s ever been. It’s been a very sad thing. They said the population has dropped by 90% since the nineteen eighteens

Most informative.

That’s pretty cool just goes to show we never stop learning👍

a random buttefly came on my wall and is probs sleeping rn and i scrolled on shorts, later on i wanted to see it again and i saw it struggling to fly in the fan😭😭 it can barely fly rn and i turned off the fan, okay that butterfly thats on my wall again now looks so scary fr. but i dont want it to leave😭

Those ants are a real nightmare sound advice though doesn’t matter what your breeding never put all your eggs in one basket I breed a huge amount of koi carp,axolotls and of course butterflies and moths and I always split the batches of offspring just in case

Helloooo 👋 I need your help @keysmoths I found an io moth caterpillar, i housed it in my "butterfly hotel". She emerged beautifully. I released it. About 11 days later SHE CAME BACK TO ME 😭😭😭 I know it's ger, because i compared pictures and the markings are identical. She had one broken wing and the other one is cracked 😭 I put her back in the butterfly hotel, she's been there for a week, and now she laid a bunch of eggs 😭 what's the best plant that i need to feed the baby caterpillars if they make it. HELP! Please & Thank you!

Great video.

The eggs look like tiny sea urchins 🙂

Where do you get your nets and extensions? When do olive hairstreaks emerge in your area? Thank you . Enjoy your videos

just found one on my christmas tree in louisiana

Cool pictures of the baby larvae 👍

Those eggs are really cool. They look like tiny sea urchins in the close-up! The 1st instar larvae look cool as well and the adults are absolutely gorgeous butterflies. Nice work David

Awesome video! I've a macro video of a hairstreak larvae hatching on my channel. My first time recording it. I waited about 5 days for it to hatch. Most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

We have Juniper (or Olive) Hairstreaks here up north. It's amazing they can survive in such a variety of habitats. They live in sandy forests here with Red Cedar.

As an entomologist I approve 👍

Had a problem last year with caterpillars turning black and dying. Sad to see.

Another great one.

You’ve gotta love furry tiger moth caterpillars they are my favourite for sure

I’ve experienced the barbed hairs also from cocoons of lasciocampidae larvae they stick in your skin like cactus spines

The chlorocresol packages are a really great idea I struggled to keep my specimens mould free in Costa Rica in fact even my clothes in the closet went mouldy

I’ve reared the deaths head hawk moth acherontia Atropos before continually through the winter with 24 hour daylight at 26 degrees Celsius and this produced good viable adults which bred well sometimes if you rear them in total darkness the opposite happens and the adults have a low fertility rate

I mean they aren't and shouldn't be considered pets as they are still wild insects.

Monarchs are so cool they are so efficient at eating they don’t waste any of the hostplant

Hunting bugs with the wifey❤😊 John Deere! Taking out the sweetness!😣😖

The main supplier we have in the uk is Watkins and Doncaster they sell a wide range of entomolical equipment just google them they have a online website they have been going for at least 30 years they are very good

Yes it’s quite disturbing to think how much things have changed in the last 20-30 years we have a species of tiger here in the uk called the garden tiger arctia caja which was extremely common found in every garden it has completely disappeared except for a few tiny remnants mainly on islands in coastal areas I’d love to know what causes these declines all different theories abound global warming pesticides parasitoids I can understand these things affecting some species but pretty much all our species have experienced a 75% decline which is huge in fact it would be very hard to class any species as pests these days due to the low numbers

I’ve reared grass feeding butterfly larvae of the speckled wood before on bamboo leaves which lasts longer in water not sure if it would work for moth species

Always tricky rearing larvae on cut grass it goes bad real fast

Cool butterfly the lignin vitae wood was used to make the lower half of fishing floats because of its weight and density it made the floats self cocking ie stand up in the water you could cast it out further too due to its weight

The faithful beauty is awesome we use a similar method in the uk we call it a relaxing box which consists of layers of cotton wool and kitchen roll soaked in a liquid which is water and a few drops of dettol which acts as an anti fungal then place the specimens on the tissue seal it up and place the box on somewhere warm like a radiator or boiler leave it for a day or so and they should be pliable I like the look of your method I’m definitely going to give it a try 👍

Cicadas don’t make noise by rubbing their legs on those plates!

We’ll said these guys are the unsung heroes who are very hard to replace

I always love it when people stop and ask and are genuinely curious. Its great and honestly doesn't happen all that often. Its fun interacting with interested people

I always check the front of my car after driving anywhere near decent habitat. Every now and then you get decent specimens 😁

Hey where you thought the butterfly had gotten out you can see it crawling towards the top of the net ring.

I once saw vegetation mowed down right next to a sign that read, "Do Not Mow."

Fantastic video David this brings back happy memories I spent four weeks at the ranchu naturalista turrialba in Costa Rica and two weeks in the cloud forest the light trapping was mind blowing amazing species of sphingidae Urania dirphia automeris arctidae wasp moths and so many more plus all the butterfly species morpho caligo parides heliconidae etc and all the bird species especially the hummingbirds I went on my own when I was 20 which is over 30 years ago and I still think about it now the one bit of advice I can give to anyone out there is if you possibly can go there then do it the experience will stay with you forever

I can’t understand the need to constantly mow grass verges they make a perfect mini environment and act as wildlife corridors

Here in England our local authorities have finally decided not to mow all the road verges too little too late the butterfly’s have already been wiped out

Unharmed? I don't think so.

Tricky to rear I have bred the holly blue before which lays its eggs on the flower buds and developing berries of holly and ivy mould on the food plant is always the killer even sleeved outside they can be tricky hot weather helps by speeding up the process👍

It’s tough when your working to keep multiple species on the go I’ve had times when I’ve been rearing 30 plus different species at the same time cleaning cages till 2am worth it for the end results though👍

Beautiful butterflies I’d never get anything done with all those flying around I’d spend the whole day at the gas station what a cool distraction 👍

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Just found 2 in Morocco 🇲🇦 filmed them feeding on cape leadwort flowers