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kevinkk · by kevinkk » Mon May 06, 2024 2:28 am

Brutal? Ok, I can take that. I answered the post in the manner I answer posts, I can only see what I see, nothing else.
April 29th was 6 days ago, it's not beyond reasoning that I might have concluded the post was not urgent. Not long ago
there was a post about Ninja clothes moths made in some bizarre attempt at subterfuge, I shouldn't have made my second post,
there was nothing to be gained by making it, however, I am still not seeing the animals, something I have already mentioned.
I don't know, if that works, an opinion was requested, and there you go.

Trehopr1 · by Trehopr1 » Mon May 06, 2024 1:08 am

Having been an exterminator for a 3-year period I can best suggest that you set off a "bug bomb"in the bedroom in question. Within a prescribed number of hours usually listed on the canister you can return and anything and everything that may have been living in that space will be dead.

Either get rid of the bedding or run it in the washer on hot for an extended cycle.... Do not allow any pets whatsoever to share your bed. No cats no dogs no rabbits etc.

I would suggest even better to get rid of the mattress altogether and buy yourself a new one with new bedding.
Problems like this are preventative....

Change bedding every 7 to 10 days at regular intervals. Shower once every day and generally keep pets out of the bedroom your sleeping in as they oftentimes harbor mites, ticks, and fleas which either find their way into the carpeting or into the very bedding that you find yourself sleeping in.

Annarobertson1947 · by Annarobertson1947 » Sun May 05, 2024 11:33 pm

wollastoni wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2024 3:48 pm Alexandre doesn't sell everyweek on eBay. He usually lists specimens once or twice a month. He is often in Ecuador.

Thanks, i wasn't aware he traveled

CaribLife · by CaribLife » Sun May 05, 2024 10:13 pm

You guys are just brutal. The pictures were taking when they were biting us as you can see they are sitting on our skin and you can actually see their legs are going inside our skin. Take a close look before you judge people. If you don't know that's ok we haven't had anyone able to identify them but they are certainly real.

wollastoni · by wollastoni » Sun May 05, 2024 3:50 pm

OK I have just upgraded succesfully the forum (that's why the forum has been unaccessible for the last 2 hours).
I am not sure at all it will fix the "Resource limit reached" issue, we will see.

It's anyway a good thing to update it for security reasons.

wollastoni · by wollastoni » Sun May 05, 2024 3:48 pm

Alexandre doesn't sell everyweek on eBay. He usually lists specimens once or twice a month. He is often in Ecuador.

livingplanet3 · by livingplanet3 » Sat May 04, 2024 10:04 pm

Cannova Red Golden Flame, a new Canna variety that I started working with this spring -

: IMG_3448.jpg (170.18 KiB) Viewed 35 times

I also have a specimen of the Cannova Bronze Scarlet cultivar (below). The Cannova series blooms quite profusely.

alandmor · by alandmor » Sat May 04, 2024 3:09 pm

kevinkk wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 2:56 pm It's pretty clear now. Apparently this post is another fake one, presumably, in consideration, by an android intelligence. Having given you
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.

I wouldn't write it off quite so easily. Delusory parasitosis is real and there are many case examples of it similar to this one. Those who suffer from it are convinced some small organism is causing their symptoms and submit samples for identification and case histories similar to this. In reality, it is all psychosomatic but patients have a hard time believing otherwise, hence the term delusory.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK5 ... esentation.

adamcotton · by adamcotton » Sat May 04, 2024 2:12 pm

Good to know it's not a malware hack.

Adam.

wollastoni · by wollastoni » Sat May 04, 2024 9:20 am

It is a new feature from InsectNet.
I am trying few new things to monetize the website without putting a yearly compulsory fee.
These notifications should push some InsectNet articles + ads. If you click on ads, you finance InsectNet.
You can unsubscribe at any time.

adamcotton · by adamcotton » Sat May 04, 2024 7:59 am

Me too just now. It wasn't there last night.

Adam.

PS. I wouldn't click 'allow notifications' anyway, but I don't recommend anyone do in case it's not genuinely from Insectnet.

Paul K · by Paul K » Fri May 03, 2024 3:39 pm

Thank you Adam

bobw · by bobw » Fri May 03, 2024 3:04 pm

I got that message too. Never seen it before.

kevinkk · by kevinkk » Fri May 03, 2024 3:00 pm

This morning, I checked the website, for new fun things. I got a message about "allowing notifications" . Please elaborate .
It's not that my tinfoil hat is too tight, I just am... curious.

kevinkk · by kevinkk » Fri May 03, 2024 2:56 pm

It's pretty clear now. Apparently this post is another fake one, presumably, in consideration, by an android intelligence. Having given you
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.

adamcotton · by adamcotton » Fri May 03, 2024 10:29 am

Paul K requested that I split this topic into a new one, 'Vanessa atalanta migration 2024', in order to report about it separate from discussion of 'Questionable Question Marks'.

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.

adamcotton · by adamcotton » Fri May 03, 2024 10:24 am

Done.

Adam.

Paul K · by Paul K » Fri May 03, 2024 2:44 am

Adam
Please could you divert the post of Vanessa atalanta migration 2024 to separate thread. Everyone could report here.

eurytides · by eurytides » Fri May 03, 2024 12:53 am

Lots of atalanta in Kingston. Never seen this many so early. Could be another 2012 in the making.

vabrou · by vabrou » Fri May 03, 2024 12:52 am

We do have two of the largest stinkbugs in North America here at my home Loxa flavicollis and Alcaeorrhynchus grandis. I published about a few of these back around 2010, reporting Loxa flavicollis (Drury, 1773) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae) a new invasive stink bug in Louisiana.

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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