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That's interesting Spydro and did you take these photograph's too. It's my hobby and some of the macro work here is good :)

I still have my first film camera and the box it came in... an Eastman Kodak Bullet Camera circa 1936. My father had carried it in the Pacific War to the battles for the Marshall Islands, Iwo Jima and to occupy Nagisaki soon after Fatman was dropped on it. He gave it to me in the 50's, and I carried it my military service years during the Vietnam Conflict from the mid 60's.
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So while I too was a photog from the late mid 50's, but I have very few of my film camera pictures from before I bought my first digital camera in 1995. They were lost over the years to pilferage or being tossed out by past family members. A lot of the pictures from digital cameras have been lost as well in computer crashes or computer upgrades over the years. Digital's aside, I still preferred to use the film cameras for field work. I still have my last bought film camera (a Minolta 7000i SLR (with every tele to macro lens, strobe, card and accessory for it known to mankind) that dates back to 1984 IIRC. I also still have 5 digital cameras, but the only one that will still take sort of good pictures that was recently brought back out of moth balls is a Canon S3 IS SLR 6MP that I didn't like when I bought it in 2006 IIRC so had never used it much. I only take a few pictures of vape gear now days, so at this late date in life I won't ever buy another camera.

Did find these old ones lurking in the 'puter of some of the stages of the life history of the Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus) that I took around 1998 in the mountains hand held with my ex's point and shoot camera with slide film (and no macro lens). The slides were ran through my flat bed scanner to get them "digital", hence some loss in their quality. For scale the egg that is soon going to emerge is about the size of the head of a straight pin... and picture 2 is the 1st instar larva that came out of it. The other pics are of 4 of the 6 instars a larva passes thru as they grow and shed their skin. The last a larva that will soon pupate. And a picture of a fresh adult that had recently emerged from it's pupa.
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In time I'll dig out some of those I had scanned from prints or slides.
 

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Thank goodness you posted that second lot of photographs. I thought you were going to leave us hanging to see what hatched! Absolutely stunning :wub:

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I couldn't help it... this site only allows 10 thumbnails per post. So I started to add the second post as soon as I realized that.
 

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I still have my first film camera and the box it came in... an Eastman Kodak Bullet Camera circa 1936. My father had carried it in the Pacific War to the battles for the Marshall Islands, Iwo Jima and to occupy Nagisaki soon after Fatman was dropped on it. He gave it to me in the 50's, and I carried it my military service years during the Vietnam Conflict from the mid 60's.
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So while I too was a photog from the late mid 50's, but I have very few of my film camera pictures from before I bought my first digital camera in 1995. They were lost over the years to pilferage or being tossed out by past family members. A lot of the pictures from digital cameras have been lost as well in computer crashes or computer upgrades over the years. Digital's aside, I still preferred to use the film cameras for field work. I still have my last bought film camera (a Minolta 7000i SLR (with every tele to macro lens, strobe, card and accessory for it known to mankind) that dates back to 1984 IIRC. I also still have 5 digital cameras, but the only one that will still take sort of good pictures that was recently brought back out of moth balls is a Canon S3 IS SLR 6MP that I didn't like when I bought it in 2006 IIRC so had never used it much. I only take a few pictures of vape gear now days, so at this late date in life I won't ever buy another camera.

Did find these old ones lurking in the 'puter of some of the stages of the life history of the Western Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio rutulus) that I took around 1998 in the mountains hand held with my ex's point and shoot camera with slide film (and no macro lens). The slides were ran through my flat bed scanner to get them "digital", hence some loss in their quality. For scale the egg that is soon going to emerge is about the size of the head of a straight pin... and picture 2 is the 1st instar larva that came out of it. The other pics are of 4 of the 6 instars a larva passes thru as they grow and shed their skin. The last a larva that will soon pupate. And a picture of a fresh adult that had recently emerged from it's pupa.
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In time I'll dig out some of those I had scanned from prints or slides.

I get some sort of yellow swallowtail from time to time, I don’t think it’s the exact one in your picture, less blue, more black on the rear end. Gorgeous creatures at any rate.
 

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so what about this darn bark beetle that is destroying so many Ca forests. Where did it come from and are they destroying it before it destroys our forests?

My field work days are long over so I have been "out of the loop" in the International gene pool of Coleopterists for many years. So, I am not up to speed on where it stands in CA, can't speak with any authority. Most of the problem out west these days are the result of a drought though that has been going on for many years.

If mankind doesn't toss a monkey wrench into the works, nature finds it's own checks and balances eventually, and the species that are suppose to survive will.
 

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the side piece clone arrived. very nicely built and finished but... my 30Ts (with original wraps) don't fit. too wide.
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Nice :) That's a bit of a bummer....but they must be able to move freely. Just a thought...there isn't some adjustment on the side switch that will sort the problem I suppose?
 

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I get some sort of yellow swallowtail from time to time, I don’t think it’s the exact one in your picture, less blue, more black on the rear end. Gorgeous creatures at any rate.

P. rutulus does not occur in OH. The phenotype of a colony can vary from colony to colony. But with less blue probably a male P. glaucus. Note that their females have two morphs, both a yellow morph and a black morph.

OH Swallowtails (Papilioninae)
Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes)
Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor)
Spicebrush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus)
Zebra Swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus)

 

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Nice :) That's a bit of a bummer....but they must be able to move freely. Just a thought...there isn't some adjustment on the side switch that will sort the problem I suppose?
nah. they don't sit inside the cup type thing that acts as the locking mechanism which the bottom cap covers. got it running with a 20S but didn't get it to use 18650s.
 

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nah. they don't sit inside the cup type thing that acts as the locking mechanism which the bottom cap covers. got it running with a 20S but didn't get it to use 18650s.
Sorry you're having trouble....if you've got some other wraps around maybe try a rewrap?

Anyway, I hope you get it sorted :)
 

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Had a extra code at dna.
They have the 5 pack for 10.99 and you can get 10% with dna10 or app10. The other code was a 1 time use.
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P. rutulus does not occur in OH. The phenotype of a colony can vary from colony to colony. But with less blue probably a male P. glaucus. Note that their females have two morphs, both a yellow morph and a black morph.

OH Swallowtails (Papilioninae)
Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes)
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)
Giant Swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes)
Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor)
Spicebrush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus)
Zebra Swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus)


Very interesting! I got lost there for a bit, so many beautiful butterflies! I think the ones I’m seeing almost closely resemble the Eastern. If I get a chance to snap some shots, I’ll share and you can tell me if I’m wrong.
 

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