Maliau Basin - Butterfly

[bluefin]

Papilio memnon




Erites argentina





Saletara panda (Male)




Saletara panda (Female)






Will be posting the last batch tonight, stay tuned.....

[Psyche]

The IDs are

1 Chersonesia rahria

2 Cepora iudith

3 Papilio memnon ( The endemic P. acheron have very little red)

4 Appias nero ( correction - S. panda )

5 Saletara panda female.


LC, if you intend to try rotten prawn, remember to bring along a couple of Pandan leaves in the car. This works like magic to remove all pervasive smell like durian, fishy odour etc from the car.

Khew, if it is not a secret ingredient, what is formula B ?

TL Seow

[Painted Jezebel]

4 Appias nero

TL Seow

Really? I have it as the male Saletara panda. It was too small for Appias nero and not red/orange enough. Also, the black forewing costal markings do not appear in A. nero, I believe.

A further photo herewith.

[Commander]

Khew, if it is not a secret ingredient, what is formula B ?

It's our famous Malaysian Belacan! But from our experience, certain brands work better than others, so we tend to buy a particular brand. Even our lil' butts have a preference for high quality belacan!

[Psyche]

Really? I have it as the male Saletara panda. It was too small for Appias nero and not red/orange enough. Also, the black forewing costal markings do not appear in A. nero, I believe.

A further photo herewith.

You are right Les. I always seem to get undone with these Pierids.

I thought it was much too orange for Saletara. The sharp pointed forewing . Well the Sulawesi subspp. ?zarinda (sometimes elevated to full species) have similar forewing.
I have also seen A. nero which are very pale to the point that in flight they looks somewhat like Yeomans (Cirrochloa).

TL Seow

[Silverstreak]

It's our famous Malaysian Belacan! But from our experience, certain brands work better than others, so we tend to buy a particular brand. Even our lil' butts have a preference for high quality belacan!

The brand does make a difference , they have preference over a certain Penang Brand .


From Teo's input during the book launch last year, in the last few trips we have also added E into B and the result were fairy good, it attracted a Jewel Nawab at Panti forest the first time we employed the combination.

We also observed a preference for the B and E combination by the Jays , Five Bars and even the Leopards. All the BFs prefer the BE combination, perhaps due to the protein. On the recent Fraser's Hill trip the BE combination was also employed successfully.

Another input from Ulu Gerok is the Orang Asli always use CS in collecting butterflies, the stuff is difficult to come by unless you have contact with a chicken farm. I have idenitfied a substitute which is essentially CS but in a much more manageable form........... will test it when I have a chance.

There is another formula F for the shade lovers, which feed on tree sap and rotten fruits , Khew told me sometimes back but it is too tedious to prepare.....

Cheers!

[Psyche]

About a year ago in the Templar Park forest, I noticed several large butterflies on a piece of poop. These included several Amathusia phidippus, binghami and a couple of Tawny Rajahs.

The Rajahs becomes so tame I was able to transfer one to my sweaty fingers.

The poop doesn't smell that bad and appears to be that of a musang or some omnivorous mammal.

The advantage of rotten prawn is that the pong is so overpowering it attracts everything far and wide.

TL Seow

[WillFolsom]

I was beginning to suspect that you were sorcerers or went to school with Harry Potter and knew the secrets to attracting butterflies. So, now I know you have "Secret Formulas" A - F. Finding forumla CS is difficult here too.

Any chance of buying a small, plastic bottle of your favorite formula? I'd be interested in giving it a try here.

William

[bluefin]

The IDs are

1 Chersonesia rahria

2 Cepora iudith

3 Papilio memnon ( The endemic P. acheron have very little red)

4 Appias nero ( correction - S. panda )

5 Saletara panda female.


LC, if you intend to try rotten prawn, remember to bring along a couple of Pandan leaves in the car. This works like magic to remove all pervasive smell like durian, fishy odour etc from the car.

Khew, if it is not a secret ingredient, what is formula B ?

TL Seow

Thanks Seow for assisting in the ID.

[bluefin]

Last set of pictures. Apologies for some double postings but these Jewels are simply beautiful and some are +1s for me.




Charaxes solon (Black Rajah)






Polyura jalysus (Indian Yellow Nawab)




Polyura delphis (Jewel Nawab)




Bibasis sena (Orange-Tail Awl)




Caleta elna elvira