I am also trying to find royalty-free pictures of luminous insects. Can anyone help or advise me ? I thank you in advance.
This exhibition will he held in the University of Liège (Belgium). It will begin in June 2015 and will be for the public at large.
Due to international agreements on natural wealth, there is restriction over insect diversity or animal diversity trafficking between and among the countries. You can write to some insect supplying companies if they have the permission under model species / key species supply for research purposes. At the personal level it is very difficult to solve your problem. Picture and photographs can serve for insect examples.
The problem is rather in the fact that flying of Central European Lampyrids is realively short, by turn of June and July, just shortly before you planed performance, Their population density is not to large and do not fly every day. In addition it would be probably difficult to keep them alive during mailing. .
Hello Didier,
as I am understood you looking for luminous insects in the process of illumination?
Hello,
Thank you for your mail.
Yes, I nearly finished the text of the exhiibition and I am stilll looking for - if possible - living Lampyridae or other luminous Hexapoda . It is more spectacular for the public. Otherwise, I have dried specimens from entomological collections, some good pictures and videos.
All teh best
Didier
You may write to my email, and I will try to help you, given you email address of some experts on bioluminescence of Coleoptera: [email protected]
Josef K. Müller of the University of Freiburg used to breed beetles of the species Phosphaenus hemipterus, Lampyris noctiluca and Lamprohiza splendidula. I don't know if he is still doing that recently but it may be worth a try. josef.mueller[at]biologie.uni-freiburg.de
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