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kevinkk · by kevinkk » Wed May 21, 2025 11:49 pm

That was weird. I kind of expected this a long time ago. Apparently there is some issue the rest of us, or at least I am unaware of.
Vernon made at least one post after the November scolding, which was nice of him to make,I guess it didn't last.

vabrou · by vabrou » Wed May 21, 2025 6:25 pm

vabrou wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 11:23 pm edited by admin

"BYE"

vabrou · by vabrou » Wed May 21, 2025 6:15 pm

Borearctia wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 3:28 pm Extra TV in Costa Rica ran a news report with the headline: ‘Japanese man kills thousands of butterflies’

This video only shows a few hundred specimens of unknown papered (assumed to be) insects. It is not proven that anything shown is actually connected to the person or subject or that it is actually related to this arrest. Where are the so-called thousands of butterflies. This story is obviously simply exaggerated BS and another example, like previous hundreds, illustrating uneducated and uninformed persons making political statements involving meaningless and costly laws to prevent others from doing meaningful scientific research. These actions are taken simply to convince the uninformed public across the world, their positions are needed to protect our environment. They are touting the existence of their actions are reasons to keep them employed. Foreign specialist and generalist collectors have discovered hundreds of millions of animals including insects over many past centuries in countries not their own. Where are the discoveries in our scientific literature by citizens of Costa Rica? Answer: very few and mostly less scientifically valuable in nature, less important and often non-current and documenting misidentified and questionable species.

Without foreign collecting there would be no Seitz volumes of images and related text from major continents of the world, nor Biol. of Central America volumes and hundreds of millions of other publications, including the discovery and published descriptions of hundreds of thousands of species of all world animal species, not just insects.

As for collecting, the naysayers do not realize there are hundreds of millions of museum and university animal specimens of every conceivable kind across the world. How did these specimens find their way into world museums? These originated from researchers involved in field research throughout the world. Naysayers often say why do we need all these specimens? Only uninformed and uneducated persons say these things. Until we denude the entire earth, new species will continue to be discovered in the future. My own 55 years of research exemplifies such matters, as shortly we will have placed 1.2 million top quality insect specimens in museums across the entire world, including discovering over 400 species of moths new to science. And we stopped counting new moth discoveries about 18 years ago.

Much of what the public reads in the news and especially on the WWW is phony. If you disagree you are not very observant.

Fullux · by Fullux » Tue May 20, 2025 12:48 am

I found quite a few husks a few wings around my yard in the Fern Creek area, and saw tons in Broad Run and Mcneely Lake Parks.

You could really hear them in the parks since a few days ago, and just started hearing them around my yard today, though I'm sure they've been here longer.

Haven't tried INaturalist, I'll give it a go.

Chuck · by Chuck » Mon May 19, 2025 10:08 pm

Where in Looville? I was there all last week- downtown- and didn’t hear a thing.

My cicadas all went to Cornell recently so I have nothing to reference for comparison. Did you try iNaturalist?

Fullux · by Fullux » Mon May 19, 2025 8:10 pm

Howdy all,

Making my first post here!

I've been encountering a great deal of periodical cicadas around where I live in Louisville, Kentucky. The insect identifier app that I have says they are Dwarf periodicals (Magicicada cassini) but they look almost identical to Pharaoh cicadas (Magicicada septendecim).

Brood XIV (The Bourbon Brood) is the one currently in our area (I can hear them now from where I'm sitting on my deck. Love that sound). Does anyone know what species Brood XIV is and how to tell the difference between M. cassini and M. septendecim?

I'll also include pictures of the individuals I've seen.

lamprima2 · by lamprima2 » Sun May 18, 2025 10:20 pm

Parnassius26 wrote: Sun May 18, 2025 3:32 pm the real question is how to safely remove glue from specimens...

I prefer BioQuip glue because it can be easily dissolved in acetone.

kevinkk · by kevinkk » Sun May 18, 2025 4:57 pm

Fixing a botched antennae sounds stressfull.
At least for "super glues" I use a material from Amazon called Super Solvent, it will make short work of any cyanoacrylate glues.

it's an alcohol/nitroalkanes based solvent, whatever that means.

Parnassius26 · by Parnassius26 » Sun May 18, 2025 3:32 pm

the real question is how to safely remove glue from specimens...

I got plenty of old material with botched antenae repairs that just look terrible. Usually just a massife drop of glue on the head with antenae glued whenever they dropped on the glue. It does not disolve in water, maybe acetone could help? Wonder if anybody has any experience with glue removal process.

lamprima2 · by lamprima2 » Sun May 18, 2025 4:49 am

Anna,
Thank you for your advice.
I've already got the original BioQuip glue
from a fellow Insectnet member.
Best regards

Annarobertson1947 · by Annarobertson1947 » Sun May 18, 2025 1:16 am

Polystyrene glue

livingplanet3 · by livingplanet3 » Sun May 18, 2025 12:42 am

It's difficult to ID from the photo; it could possibly be a Loxosceles, but might actually be a philodromid crab spider, based in the fact that the second pair of legs are very noticeably longer than the rest -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philodromidae

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1964/bgimage

Nickless · by Nickless » Sat May 17, 2025 3:25 pm

I have been finding this tiny spiders around my house lately, the closest I found are loxosceles, but I'm not really sure.

: 20250517_073903.jpg (247.76 KiB) Viewed 66 times

I haven't seen any adult specimens around, the ones I've seen so far are from about 0.7cm to 1.5cm approximately (naked eye estimation).

What stands the most is the length of the second pair of legs, it is basically double the size of the rest of them, they are fairly transparent (no solid color) with no decorations (bands on legs etc), even the bigger ones I've seen the legs are also quite thin (not as much as regular long legs spiders) but thinner than the average house/garden spider.

Also some of them look like crabs, especially on a resting position they tend to place their legs on a U shape position, they are kind of cute, but kind of scary too.

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the blurriness, they are quite small and this is the first time I have my phone at hand while looking at one.

livingplanet3 · by livingplanet3 » Fri May 16, 2025 2:55 pm

Possibly, they are biscuit beetles (Stegobium paniceum) -

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/identif ... guide.html

kevinkk · by kevinkk » Fri May 16, 2025 2:19 pm

Hard to tell. Maybe a beetle, looks like wings not completely folded on the end of the abdomen. You might need more pictures, although someone may know exaclty what it is.
Any beetles would probably be food pests, and not specifically dangerous, but you might not want to eat them.

joachim · by joachim » Fri May 16, 2025 10:56 am

Hello!
I have read here that there are these wasps that you can put in a butterfly box and that they eat the larvae and eggs of the beloved pests. And everything is dead. Then they die and you have peace of mind. I have now found two boxes. Where some folds were infested.
Does anyone have any experience of the people who sell these wasps, 30 in a tube, saying that all the pests are killed within a week or two?
Thanks for any tips and have a great time, Joachim

HK85 · by HK85 » Fri May 16, 2025 8:38 am

Hi

I wondered if I could get some help in identifying a bug please? Over the last 2-3 years weve noticed several of them in our property over the summer months only. They tend to be found on walls or skirting boards/door frames and used to mostly be in our living room, but this year weve found them upstairs and in the kitchen too (on countertops). They are very small (about half a centimetre in length) and brown/black in colour. Whilst were pretty sure that they are not harmful, were a little concerned that now that weve found some in the kitchen that they may start to contaminate or get in food which we dont want (especially as we have children too). Ive attached a couple of photos to help identify them. Does anyone know what they are and how we can get rid of them please? I should also add that we are in the UK and usually get them when the weather is warmer here.

Thank you

wollastoni · by wollastoni » Thu May 15, 2025 5:07 pm

alandmore : in the Blog section : https://insectnet.com/blog/
Along with other useful articles for collectors.

alandmor · by alandmor » Thu May 15, 2025 3:50 pm

Other than the link provided, where can one find this list of insect fairs on the Insectnet.com website? Thx!

kevinkk · by kevinkk » Thu May 15, 2025 2:24 pm

I think it's an ant, but it's hard to tell. Perhaps a picture of it's buddies would help.

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