Filming VarWild: Activities

Presentations & Collaborations

2019 - July: publication with Richard R. Askew PDF - Review of the French species of Coelopisthia Förster (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) with a rearing record of C. pachycera Masi from Maniola jurtina (L.) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)
http://www.filming-varwild.com/publications-fr.html

. 2019 - 30 mars : Conférence Salle Beaujour 17h30 à Callas
. Mais où sont donc passés les papillons?


2018 - December 4 : Work meeting about the results of Project Flambe at INRA - Sophia Agrobiotech Institute.

2018 - August: publication with Andrew Liston (Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Müncheberg) about Aprosthema tardum. PDF - The life-history of Aprosthema tardum (Klug, 1814) (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinoidea, Argidae).
http://www.filming-varwild.com/publications-fr.html

2018 - April to October : Projéct Flambé - Research into the the effect and behavior of egg-parasitoids on a population of Iphiclides podalirius. In collaboration with, and identification of egg parasitoids by, Geraldine Groussier (INRA - Sophia Agrobiotech Institute).

2018 - March 27 : Meeting in Callas with Géraldine Groussier and David Muru (INRA - Sophia Agrobiotech Institute) on the implementation of Project Flambé; monitoring of the eggs of the Flambé ( Iphiclides podalirius ) in relation to egg parasitoids.

2018 - January : Publication of a new species described by Mark R. Shaw, Pieter Kan & Brigitte Kan-van Limburg Stirum. PDF - A new species and first rearing record of the genus Thibetoides Davis (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae, Tryphoninae) from France.
http://www.filming-varwild.com/publications-fr.html

2017 - December 19 : Presentation of the activities of FVW at INRA - Sophia Agrobiotech Institute, followed by a meeting concerning the collaboration on research on the influence of trichogrammes on butterfly populations.

2017 - July : Participating in footage for a video about Tachinidae of the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alberta Canada
https://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/

2015 - November: Research with, Mark R. Shaw (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh).
PDF - Emergence behaviour of adult Trogus lapidator from pupa of its host Papilio machaon.

2015 - October : Collaboration with Andrew Liston (Senckenberg German Entomological Institute, Müncheberg) in connection with the identification of the host Aprostema of Thibetoides.

2015 - May / December : Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulon: Small documentary about life-cycle of butterflies of the Var.

2015 - April 13 : Meeting with Jean-Yves Rasplus (Montpellier) - Center for Biology for Population Management - UMR INRA - on cooperation with the TriPTIC program.

2014 - October 30 : Meeting with Andrew Polaszek (Natural History Museum, London) in Montpellier talk about cooperation in TriPTIC program and transfer of Trichogrammas ex Papilio machaon eggs.

2014 - 8 June : Le Beausset (F) Maison de la Nature des Quatre Freres
Les insectes de Provence:
- Où sont donc passés les papillon
- How does the Provencal Hairstreak (Tomares ballus) survives?
- The Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) in the Provence

2014 -May : Research with, Mark R. Shaw (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh) on a new species from the genus Thibetoides sp.

2014 - 28 Mars : Identification by Norman F. Johnson ( Museum of Biological Diversity, Ohio State University, USA) of the egg parasitoids Telenomus kolbei (Platygastridae) ex Nymphalis antiopa.

2013 - 29 November : Montpellier (F) - Conférence-débat with as subject
« Papillons et Biodiversité » (Butterflies and Biodiversity)

2013 - 29 / 30 June : Digne-les-Bains (F) - Colloque Proserpine & E.I.G.
- The Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) in the Provence

2013 - 8 June : Identification by Hans-Peter Tschorsnig (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany) of the tachinid parasitoid Thecocarcelia trichops ex Carcharodus alceae.

2013 - March / April : Identification by Jorge M. González (California State University, Fresno) of the parasitoid Melittobia australica ex Sceliphron curvatum cocoon; first sighting on mainland France.

2012 - 23 December : Identification by Richard R. Askew (Entomologist, France) of parasitoid Elasmus viridiceps (Eulophidae) ex Carcharodus alceae larvae.

2012 - 14 November : Identification by Hans-Peter Tschorsnig (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany) of the tachinid parasitoid Thecocarcelia trichops ex Carcharodus alceae. So far only two host records were known; one published from Carcharodus sp. (cf. alceae) from Italy, and another one, yet unpublished, from C. alceae from Southern France, stored in the collection of the Naturkundemuseum Stuttgart (pers.remark H.-P. Tschrsnig).

2012 - 13 October : Stratford (UK) E.I.G.
- How does the Provencal Hairstreak (Tomares ballus) survives?

2012 - January : Collaborations with Mark R. Shaw (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh) on the identification of ichneumon parasitoids of butterflies in our region.

2011 - 3 December : Callas (F)
- Les mémoires d'un ancien moulinier de Callas.
- The flight of Nymphalis antiopa

2011 - 26 November : Marseille (F) OPIE - Provence
- The secret life of Laeosopis roboris (Laeosopis evippus).

2011 - 24 September : Marseille (F) OPIE - Provence
- Les mémoires d?un ancien moulinier de Callas

2011 - 5 Mars : Vlinderstichting (NL)
- The flight of Nymphalis antiopa

2010 - 6 October : Paris (F) ALF, Lépidoptères
- The secret life of Laeosopis roboris (Laeosopis evippus).
- The flight of Nymphalis antiopa

2010 - 26 October : Marseille (F) OPIE - Provence
- The flight of Nymphalis antiopa

2010 - 5 / 8 May : Crete (Gr) Planta Europa Foundation
- Zerynthia polyxena

2010 - 6 Mars : Vlinderstichting (NL) 
- The Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) in the Provence.
http://www.vlinderstichting.nl/actueel.php?id=312&nieuwsid=93&p=a

2009 - June : le Muy  (F) Primairy Schools
- The dynamic world of the Zerynthias (Zerynthia polyxena & rumina)
- The Swallowtail (Papilio machaon) in the Provence

2009 - January : Marseille (F) OPIE - Provence
- The dynamic world of the Zerynthias (Zerynthia polyxena & rumina)

2008 - 16 Febuary: Vlinderstichting (NL) Open dag 
- The dynamic world of the Zerynthias (Zerynthia polyxena & rumina)