[leps-talk] MALE x FEMALE emergence

[Jorge Bizarro]

I using this post to start a new trend.

In my experience, breeding highly gregarious species of leps (the type that eat together, rest together, pupate together, etc), it always happened that all females emerge in first place, with a window of 1-2 days of both sexxes emergence, and than the males at last.

The bugs I've rear in these conditions are

Euselasia eucerus (RiodiniDAE)
Pereute swainsoni (Pieridae)
Doxocopa zunilda (Nymphalidae)

One exception is genus Actinote (males come first, BUT they give up gregarism at the last instars; by the way, generally MORE than FIVE!!).

I bet Asterocampa comes with females first (voilá!).

Does any one have a sugestion for this lep peculiarity??

best wishes

Jorge 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Gatrelle 
  To: Carolina Leps 
  Cc: leps-talk 
  Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 4:54 PM
  Subject: [leps-talk] new record


  The guess big news on my May 16 trip was the discovery of C. gorgone at
  another site.  This colony is 15 miles from the Clay County population I
  located last year at this time.   I wanted to check some new areas and
  arrived at this location in Macon County at 8:00 AM.  It is a  cleared
  narrow ridge crest at about 4000 + ft. (I forgot to take my altimeter).
  It is on private property and I had to cross a fence line to get to it (No
  no trespassing sign so in I went.)   About 8:30 there was enough sun and
  warmth to start bringing stuff out.   There were a lot of very strange
  monster Pearl Crescents (P. tharos) at this site (more on these later).   I
  was very interested in these and so way paying a lot of attention to them.
  Which is the biggest factor in why I noticed the female Gorgone.  It was
  very fresh as I stirred it from the grass.  I spent 1 1/2 hrs looking for
  more and saw none.

  I also saw another fresh female over at the first site in Clay County late
  in the day when I finally got over there.   The fact that another colony
  has been found along with the thin numbers  - both last year and this -
  indicates that this is likely wide spread (but local) in that region and
  that it emerges slowly over several weeks and thus "a bunch" are never
  found at one time.

  The habitat at the new area was similar to the Clay Co. site only that is
  was in primarily deciduous forest.   This new area is unfortunately in a
  rapidly developing area and the ridge top is such a great view it is only a
  matter of time till some wealthy person buys up the property, rips up the
  environment, and builds their dream mountain home.  It has a super vierw.
  Anyone want to help TILS buy this site?  Got to go.

  Ron



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