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Is there anybody with pictures around here? butterflies are very common and moths are rare, right?Oh and also, i really want a queen alexanders birdwing butterfly, i have seem them before in the dinosaur toy forum.
Here are my smaller silkworm moth (Saturniidae) figures; the large luna moth by Safari LTD (Smithsonian Collection) is not included here:BACK ROW:1) cecropia moth caterpillar, Hyalophora cecropia (Safari LTD, Smithsonian Collection)MIDDLE ROW, left to right:1) atlas moth, Attacus atlas (Kaiyodo, Capsule Q Animatales)2) emperor gum moth, Opodiphthera eucalypti (Cadbury, Yowies-Australian release)3) ailanthus moth, caterpillar, Samia Cynthia (Kaiyodo, Caterpillars 1)FRONT ROW, left to right:1) small emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia (Kaiyodo, Souvenirs Entomologiques)2) luna moth life cycle, Actias luna (Safari LTD, Safariology)
Wonderful! You should probably have removed the fly screen cheese dome thing from the Souvenirs Entomologiques Saturnia pavonia to show the female underneath, too. I could probably add some lepidopteran figures, too. Although I doubt I have any that Blaine doesn't have.
hornworms or hawk moths, Sphingidae.From left to right:1) deaths-head hawkmoth, caterpillar, Acherontia lachesis (Kaiyodo, Capsule Q Caterpillars 1)2) scrofa moth, Hippotion scrofa (Cadbury, Yowies--Australian release)3) impatiens hawkmoth, caterpillar, Theretra oldenlandiae (Kaiyodo, Capsule Q Caterpillars 2)
Seeing some atlases on ebay... must be new right? would of seen it before.
the ever-popular monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus.This figure is commonly made as a toy/figure, from bin-sets to authentic replicas. Here are some of my figures of this species:TOP ROW, left to right:1) larva, Safari LTD (Smithsonian Insects)2) adult, Safari LTD (Hidden Kingdom Insects-original)3) small adult, Safari LTD (Authentics Insects Box Set)4) adult, CollectABOTTOM ROW, left to right:1) adult, Cadbury (Yowies-Australian release)2) adult, Cadbury (Yowies-UK release)3) life cycle, Safari LTD (Safariology)--the adult will be released individually in 2015 as a 'Hidden Kingdoms' figure.
Cool. i plan on getting the wild republic bug set which has a monarch.but i really want the DHHM caterpillar.