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Re: Another one?
by adamcotton » Sat May 04, 2024 7:59 am
Adam.
PS. I wouldn't click 'allow notifications' anyway, but I don't recommend anyone do in case it's not genuinely from Insectnet.
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Another one?
by kevinkk » Fri May 03, 2024 3:00 pm
It's not that my tinfoil hat is too tight, I just am... curious.
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Re: Blood Sucking Mites living on our skin
by kevinkk » Fri May 03, 2024 2:56 pm
the benefit of the doubt originally, I will be weighing the possibilities when answering future dubious entries.
It's not funny. You are not actually fooling anyone. Your dipstick robot has no experience in the field of entomology and, yes, even I can spot
a fake, while foolishly giving you the benefit of the doubt.
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by adamcotton » Fri May 03, 2024 10:29 am
Please find the new topic at
viewtopic.php?p=10099#p10099
in the Lepidoptera section.
Please post about Vanessa atalanta there, not in this thread.
Adam.
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by Paul K » Fri May 03, 2024 2:44 am
Please could you divert the post of Vanessa atalanta migration 2024 to separate thread. Everyone could report here.
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by eurytides » Fri May 03, 2024 12:53 am
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Re: Unusual, Weird & Beautiful Hemipterans
by vabrou » Fri May 03, 2024 12:52 am
For many decades I placed hundreds of thousands of assorted uncurated hemiptera in jars of 70% Isopropyl alcohol Here e,g are 11,000+ speciimens in alcohol. I did this to allow future workers to have the benefit of these specimens that I could not process by pinning and labeling, the only alternative being discarding these captured daily. Some of these bycatch were pinned and labeled on an irregular basis. Out target insects were lepidoptera of which we pinned spread labeled and determined hundreds of thousands of adults over the past 55+ years See attached one box of thousands of Louisiana lepidoptera placed in museums.
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Re: Unusual, Weird & Beautiful Hemipterans
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by Paul K » Thu May 02, 2024 11:10 pm
I suspect that warmer weather thru North America this winter cause higher survival rate, also very mild temperatures and early spring triggered migratory instinct in more individuals than normal years to fly north.
On top of that perhaps last season higher number survive to an adult. It will be interesting to see if a huge number reproduce here and it will be a great year for this species or it will end as other years.
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Re: Newbie: looking for info on life cycle times
by evra » Thu May 02, 2024 7:14 pm
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Re: Newbie: looking for info on life cycle times
by evra » Thu May 02, 2024 7:01 pm
You would probably be better to start off with silkmoths (Saturniidae) that are not in the Ceratocampinae subfamily (because they burrow into the soil and pupate rather than spin cocoons, and you can't really film the pupation or emergence).
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by livingplanet3 » Thu May 02, 2024 6:57 pm
The atalanta I'm seeing here in TX are nearly all in fine condition - no flight wear at all; definitely from recent, local emergence. Same with the V. cardui, V. virginiensis and P. interrogationis.
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by Chuck » Thu May 02, 2024 6:38 pm
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Re: Newbie: looking for info on life cycle times
by livingplanet3 » Thu May 02, 2024 5:20 pm
You can readily distinguish the caterpillars of H. scribona from E. acrea by the fact that only H. scribona has red bands between the abdominal segments, which are especially apparent when the caterpillar defensively rolls into a ball -Pedz wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 4:16 pm Hmm… two factors: I would say that it’s the Salt Marsh Moth because I too have seen these guys everywhere this year. It started at the eclipse. I have another in my yard that I’m watching. And also the images of the mature adult look like what I have.
Thank you for your time and help.
Also, the caterpillars of E. acrea are lighter in color, with the bristles along the sides of the body being shades of brown instead of black -
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Re: Newbie: looking for info on life cycle times
by Pedz » Thu May 02, 2024 4:16 pm
Hmm… two factors: I would say that it’s the Salt Marsh Moth because I too have seen these guys everywhere this year. It started at the eclipse. I have another in my yard that I’m watching. And also the images of the mature adult look like what I have.livingplanet3 wrote: ↑Thu May 02, 2024 4:08 pm I'm not certain of which species of tiger moth caterpillar you have, but if it's a Giant Leopard Moth (Hypercompe scribonia), here's a page giving the life cycle / time frames -
https://www.prairiehaven.com/?page_id=29859
If it's a Salt Marsh Moth (Estigmene acrea) -
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/ve ... pillar.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estigmene_acrea
Incidentally, E. acrea has been especially abundant in North TX this spring; much more so than I have seen in many years.
Thank you for your time and help.
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Re: Newbie: looking for info on life cycle times
by livingplanet3 » Thu May 02, 2024 4:08 pm
https://www.prairiehaven.com/?page_id=29859
If it's a Salt Marsh Moth (Estigmene acrea) -
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/ve ... pillar.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estigmene_acrea
Incidentally, E. acrea has been especially abundant in North TX this spring; much more so than I have seen in many years.
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by Paul K » Thu May 02, 2024 3:02 pm
We have here on the north side of the Lake Ontario also unusual numbers of V.atalanta.Chuck wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 5:16 pm Last week, before it snowed, there was an unusual number of V. atlanta around.
It warmed up a bit three days ago, albeit with rain. Today it's 64F and sunny. There are hundreds of atlanta, everywhere. Most are flying fast, I've only observed one alight. They are absolutely beat.
So either there was a local population explosion late last year followed by a high winter survival rate, or they have migrated. Given the condition of them, I'd say they migrated en masse. I've never seen anything like this before.