Here in Greece, I've found a perfect breeding place of them in the huge forest of Mt. Rhodopi, otherwise it's quite impossible to meet or trap it! On the photo are some females from my collection! What about your experiences with the females of this extraordinary species in your countries?
Excellent news Athanasios, you have an amazing collection, in perfect conditions, congratulations.
Thank you very much dear Luis Miguel! Proud to have these nice words from a great entomologist like you.
Your collection dear Athanasios G Mpamnaras is really incredible. Congratulations!
It's not my field of knowledge. But, your collection is great. Good luck.
Αγαπητέ Aristidis Matsoukis , σας ευχαριστώ πολύ, το εκτιμώ.
Dear Suleyman Kaleli , thank you very much for your interest.
Mario Carlo Raviglione , no of course what you wrote is not the answer to my question. By checking your profil, someone can see that you have absolutely no relation with entomology and you haven't published anything in this science. You can check my answer on this subject (and also the answers of the serious/knowledgeable colleagues who agree with me) to learn:
''Collections are absolutely necessary and valuable for science.
As proved by so many studies, habitat destruction, climatic change, the tons of pesticides and the general environmental pollution, are the real threats to biodiversity.
As far as I know, in Brazil insect collecting even for scientific purposes is almost totally prohibited (permits very hardly issued), but Bolsonaro's government is burning the Amazon -along with billions of insects- to convert the rainforest into agricultural land.
And it's a total nonsense to compare elephant populations with insect populations.
Ornithoptera alexandrae is threatened with extinction in PNG, cause a great part of its habitat has been converted into palm oil plantations, but CITES ''protects'' it from collectors, doing nothing to protect its habitat, that would be the only way to save it.
Hypocrisy mixed with ignorance..''
If a number of insect species were really rare in the wild in terms of low number of individuals, they would have become extinct alone - as they couldn't find easily an opposite sex individual to mate and reproduce - and wouldn't wait for a collector-entomologist to do this. ''Rare'' in insects actually is ''hard to find in the wild'', cause of lack of knowledge on their biology or behavior, of difficult to approach/dangerous habitat, etc. All insect species at the right habitat form big to huge populations, from tens of thousands of individuals in a locality for the rarest species, to millions per locality/population for the commonest.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_collections_of_insects_and_other_animals_cause_loss_of_biodiversity
Mario Carlo Raviglione , take your anti-scientific anti-collecting propaganda and nonsense, and go away from here. And yes, I will say it again, you have absolutely no relation with entomology and taxonomy, as you don't understand at all the absolute need of series of specimens of each population of each species, in order to study accurately and understand biodiversity and so to be able to protect it! You also don't know basic things in insect biology, as you obviously compare populations of elephants with insect populations (lol) ! You just see a box of just 30 females of a species (not identical to each other, they differ in the extension/width of hindwing white discal bands, color, size, wingshape etc, and all these must be studied in detail!), collected during YEARS, and with collecting-scientific permits, and you think that I drive this species to extinction. Sorry, but your thinking is at least ridiculous and absolutely not scientific. You need many lessons, that I'm not available to give you. Bye.
Btw, where are your entomological papers and books..? I only see papers about tuberculosis in your profil...!!
EDIT: I see that you have just deleted your rants in my thread here! You are for many laughs...!
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