Where/who/what do you contact with pictures of butterflies/moths if you think you may have found something new and/or migrated? I cant get my mind off this butterfly I found a couple years ago, and I never saw it before or after that, nor can I find anything that looks like it. I've done SO much research looking for this fucking thing trying to find out what it is, and nothing matches up. I unfortuneately DONT have a picture, but Im asking if any of you know because maybe they can send me a book or something of all the possible, discovered butterflies/moths that it could be... That, and from now on I'm bringing my camera with me EVERYWHERE just in case this shit happens again. I most likely havent even came across the half of the species of butterflies, and thats why I want info from a reliable source that would list all the possibilities. It's been bugging the hell out of me. I live in Wisconsin, and the creature I saw looked EXTREMELY exotic for our area. So if anyone knows where/who you contact to send in findings or ask for information on every discovered species of butterfly, PLEASE let me know. Its just bugging the crap out of me.
Hey A+O check out this site: http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm Click on "Photo Thumbnails" and (if you're obsessed enuff, which it sounds like you are!) go through all 600+ mug shots, and maybe you'll be able to identify the perp. I know how it is; a couple years back I found this AMAZING moth-creature in the lobby of my apartment building. I swear she looked like a miniature dragon. I wanted to take her to some entymologist for identification, but I figured that would suck for her, so I let her out the door instead. Good luck!
i went through all the pictures, none of them match up to the butterfly I found... This site is just of butterflies in the U.S. correct? I'm thinking somehow the butterfly I may have found migrated ...who knows someone who took a trip to africa could have gotten a cocoon on their luggage and took it back with them, you never know!
Wow, you're totally out of your mind! Yah, those are only North American butterflies, so you may have an illegal alien on your hands. Or it's possible that you found a mutant (not like a flesh-eating-mutant-from-Mars-mutant but a real one). Pretty damn cool either way!
lol, i told you I was pathetic enough to do that. Would they classify a mutant as a new species or...just that, a mutant?
Damn, I shoulda paid attention back in biology class. I'm pretty sure a mutant is not a new species, coz it can still mate & produce fertile offspring w/ its normal species. Or something like that. Isn't that how they define it?
You're probably right actually. I'm not quite sure. So being a mutant it would be a one of a kind which wouldn't put it in its own category. I'm sorry, I had a slow moment, I think you're actually right.
