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Re: Longtail Skippers
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Re: Eacles variation 2
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Re: Eacles variation 2
by chrisw » Thu Oct 10, 2024 8:35 pm
one is the same.
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Re: So, what's on your spreading board ?
by martellat0 » Thu Oct 10, 2024 7:07 pm
Those of us that are truly obsessed will take any and all opportunities to collect
I like the look of your net though - the foldable net head is always a plus!
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Re: So, what's on your spreading board ?
by Chuck » Thu Oct 10, 2024 6:24 pm
I keep one in the car. And one on the boat. And one for travel. These collapsing nets are great.
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Re: Farmed specimens of Troides plateni
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Re: So, what's on your spreading board ?
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Re: Moving/ downsizing, donating collection, books, getting old
by Chuck » Thu Oct 10, 2024 3:34 pm
That gave me a shock. Wow. Notably, Nabokov never really collected after that, though that might be attributed to his fame as an author and focus on writing. Still, once he gave away his collection, did he lose interest? Did he no longer have a need to collect or study Leps?
So I wonder, what of my collection should I NOT dispose of yet? What might I need? Tiger Swallowtails? Solomon Islands specimens? I have had passions in the past, but once I broke from them, they were gone, and I never returned to them- will entomology be the same path?
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Re: So, what's on your spreading board ?
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Re: Farmed specimens of Troides plateni
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Re: So, what's on your spreading board ?
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Farmed specimens of Troides plateni
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Re: Euploea mulciber - ssp. cebuensis or visaya?
by Trehopr1 » Wed Oct 09, 2024 11:19 pm
Feel free to post them anytime.
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Re: Euploea mulciber - ssp. cebuensis or visaya?
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Re: Collecting in California
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Re: Eratigena duellica "giant house spider"
by kevinkk » Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:13 pm
Agreed, although anymore even a photo is going to have doubters, AI and awesome graphics with proper animation make dinosaurs look real, and we all are pretty sure about that.
When it gets to the news on tv, I'll have to wait and see.
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Re: So, what's on your spreading board ?
by boghaunter1 » Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:29 pm
Just collected, in one of my M.V. traps, a nice fresh specimen of the same Herald moth (Scoliopteryx libatrix); the night was cool (low of +3.5 C = +38.0 F), calm & clear. This moth is common up here in Sask. & overwinters & will be seen again next spring/early summer. Also found in my traps, 2 spp. of underwings... worn singletons of C. briseis & C. relicta. Last Saturday afternoon (05 Oct... daytime high was only +5.0 C = 41.0 F) we had, following 8 hrs. of steady rain, 2 hrs. of heavy, wet, sleety SNOW! Fortunately it melted as it hit the still warmer ground. Daytime temp. today, 08 Oct., is supposed to hit +20.0 C = 68 F... yesterday was +19.0 C = 67.0 F... crazy temp. swings... winter is not far away... !
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Re: Eratigena duellica "giant house spider"
by Chuck » Tue Oct 08, 2024 5:17 pm
Is this for certain? What if it has adapted? "Lung" adaptations aside, as Kevin mentioned there is the coconut crab, just a big hermit crab that doesn't need a shell home, which can span over a meter. The aquatic king crabs and others dwarf the coconut crab.
"studies in Chicago with the beetles raised under elevated oxygen bear out the mathmatics of Titanus
being the upper limit for bulk"
There are many limiting factors, not just oxygen. For largemouth bass it's a lack of foraging during winter; the NYS record is 12lbs, which is a joke in FL. Insects have a natural cycle, and lifespan, which is limiting- the larvae of beetles for example don't double their larval stage period, so there's that, plus the limit of the food source, time to digest, etc.
If Thor Hyerdahl was telling the truth, during his first Pacific crossing he captured two 6' eel elves; this means either there's an eel that never matures, or there's a 200' long eel.
I'd not rule out a giant anything.
That said, what is usually in doubt is the report. Lay persons often report they have a 24" moth, and then I get that cecropia, and it's not even in the ballpark. Ditto spiders- reports of hand-sized spiders and when I go look at it, it's a bloody water spider with a 3.5" span...ooohhh. When sizes of animals are claimed I fall in the "show me a photo" group.
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Re: Eratigena duellica "giant house spider"
by kevinkk » Tue Oct 08, 2024 3:48 pm
the giant tarantulas at reptile shows, which are big enough for most of us.
There is a lot of good "cryptid" video on youtube though, I have to skip over all the bait, otherwise I'd never find any b movies to watch.
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Re: Longtail Skippers
by Jshuey » Tue Oct 08, 2024 1:12 pm
They really aren't that hard if you relax them well. See my personal method in the old forum - https://collector-secret.proboards.com/ ... ers?page=2. I explain how I relax after all the pics of skippers.
John