Welcome at vlindertjes.eu, at this site you can find lots of information about lepidopterans, development from egg to butterfly or moth, the anatomy and also about breeding these beautiful creatures. It’s my intention to update this site regularly with additional information and breeding reports. I’m usually quite busy during the summer months with for instance breeding lepidopterans, that’s thy the majority of updates will be done during the winter season. I’m always open for questions, comments or arguments, contact is possible through the community board or forum that’s accessible after making an account and logging in.
Now that the season is over and I limited my breeding to three species, there is enough time to start working on my site again. Because updating and adding content to a html site is quite time consuming, I decided to modernize my website so it will be much simpler to maintain and add extra content. Another pleasure of simplified maintenance, is that it will make it much easier to translate my Dutch site to English and that’s what will keep me busy coming weeks, till then not all content will be translated.
Since I live in the Netherlands and my native language is Dutch, one of the problems I stumbled on translating this site is the fact that we have the habit talking about butterflies as the whole Lepidoptera group. If we want to be more specific, we just put day or night in front of it. I can’t recall using the term lepidopteran often but I will use it quite a lot during translation because it’s the only thing that will keep me from using “butterflies and moths” frequently.
After adding a forum and community board, I thought it would be wise to keep my email and other address details there. Everything that is hidden behind a login is not searched by bots and spiders and won’t result in a full mailbox due to spam, that applies to my data, but also those of our members. That way contact is only possible by creating an account, only some of the data will be available for logged in members, this is mentioned on the application form.