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Thanks. Do you keep bees by chance? I know that both the wax months are increasingly common and a bit of a pest to apiarists. We've been advised to not collect too many Lepidoptera for the collections. The butterflies don't need to be caught for ID purposes and although many of the moths can only be ID'ed by microscopic examination / dissection they shed scales and make a real mess of the collection boxes unless you're really careful apparently.
JoePablo-
No - we have a wax moth research colony. We do have a research apiary here too, so can chat with the manager there if there’s anything we can try collect?
Not big here on pointlessly pinning wild samples so fully agree, but we have lots of lab moths we dispose of. If they could be of use would be happy to send.
jupiz
Ooh congrats, whereabouts? And good luck, let us know if you need a greater wax moth and can pop one in the post!