Five hours up the Madre de Dios River from Puerto Maldonado, Bio station CICRA. I gave an informal presentation, and got: Lead #1 - Biologist who saw an enormous moth, likely agrippina, he will send me photo.
Lead #2 - Biologist saw in the last 2 weeks a strikingly large moth, oriented vertically on tree trunk. I'm not aware of other moths with this habit
Expectation: the most uesful, and current information will come from people intimate with the local forest, who will not have recorded their observations. Leads above were from vertebrate - monkey - biologists. You have to be their to ask.
Expectation: the larva of T. agrippina will not occur at sites like CICRA, because although they are remote, they are nonethless well scrutinized. If this holds, we should focus on habitats that most researchers ignor.
Lead #2 - Biologist saw in the last 2 weeks a strikingly large moth, oriented vertically on tree trunk. I'm not aware of other moths with this habit
Expectation: the most uesful, and current information will come from people intimate with the local forest, who will not have recorded their observations. Leads above were from vertebrate - monkey - biologists. You have to be their to ask.
Expectation: the larva of T. agrippina will not occur at sites like CICRA, because although they are remote, they are nonethless well scrutinized. If this holds, we should focus on habitats that most researchers ignor.