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Re: What wildflower species is this ?
by livingplanet3 » Fri Jul 26, 2024 9:46 pm
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What wildflower species is this ?
by Trehopr1 » Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:48 pm
we have here. I live in Illinois and it is in bloom
for about a month in mid-summer.
I find that it works well at attracting swallowtail
species so, I'm always on the lookout for it.
I'm pretty lousy at plant/flower identification !
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Re: from an old collection
by adamcotton » Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:18 pm
I am still sad that both the older and more recent versions of Clark's old pre-Proboards Insectnet are no longer available. Those also had loads of important information and photos.
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Re: from an old collection
by adamcotton » Fri Jul 26, 2024 8:15 pm
The label says
Doi Phu Kha
Pua District
Nan Thailand
The handwritten date 20 Nov 1988 looks like the writing of my late friend Prasobsuk Sukkit.
I checked the Insectnet archive and found it by searching for both words 'alcmenor' and 'Sukkit'!
https://archive.insectnet.com/thread/96 ... o-alcmenor
Scroll down to the 7th post on the page.
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from an old collection
by joachim » Fri Jul 26, 2024 1:17 pm
I actually bought the butterfly by mistake, I bid 1 Eur and it came with the other shipment. However, Adam recognized the label and whose collection the butterfly came from, however it was sold.
Unfortunately I couldn't find the entry, so Adam, do you remember?
https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code ... lqML4AaQp7
https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code ... JpvmbKJTWX
Greetings Joachim
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Re: Tiger Swallowtails of NY: Finger Lakes, Part II
by Chuck » Thu Jul 25, 2024 6:07 pm
Observed 4 (perhaps only 3), captured 2F
Took the decoy up, placed in field, nothing. Moved it next to the forest just before clouds came in, nothing.
Both females captured on Bergamot, the uncaptured (whether it was the same one or two?) flying on forest edge.
Once the dark low clouds came in poof no more butterflies.
This may have been my last day on the primary hill; if I go tomorrow that will be the last day. Ever. I'm off elsewhere for a while, when I get back they'll be on the Cup Plants. Next year we won't live here. Somewhat melancholy.
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Re: Need help deciphering data! (South America)
by Panacanthus » Thu Jul 25, 2024 3:51 pm
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Re: Need help deciphering data! (South America)
by livingplanet3 » Thu Jul 25, 2024 3:13 pm
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Re: Tiger Swallowtails of NY: Finger Lakes, Part II
by Chuck » Thu Jul 25, 2024 11:41 am
Since July 11 there are only 17 observations of Tigers in NY state north of the 42nd parallel (NY/PA border) and they seem to be nectaring on "whatever."
Interestingly, in NY south of the 42nd (i.e., NYC area) there are plenty of iNat observations, and they (1) look like glaucus and (2) are nectaring on Butterfly Bush. We have BB up here, but I don't see them on it, and there's no photos of them on it.
Hibiscus is well in bloom, but I don't see Tigers on that either; in my experience mid-August is when they really hit the Hibiscus. Why? I dunno.
One more note from iNat, there's a good photo of a Tiger from the Buffalo area that sure looks like glaucus https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/231052630
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Re: Need help deciphering data! (South America)
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Need help deciphering data! (South America)
by Panacanthus » Thu Jul 25, 2024 4:40 am
??? - River Amazonas (= Amazon River)
??? - Loreto - Peru
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Re: Tiger Swallowtails of NY: Finger Lakes, Part II
by Chuck » Wed Jul 24, 2024 8:43 pm
24july24: 82F/28C, partly sunny T storm looming
Observed 5, capture 3 (1M 2F all on Bergamot) the two I didn't catch were on the forest edge; those I did catch exhibited the End-of-Bergamot-Blues: hopping 10m again and again to find a bloom they like.
This week reflects the same week of 2023, and I copy/paste: "But I checked the Teasel fields, and the Cup Plant field, nothing. Where are they?? This day last year [2022] was the second-highest capture of 2022. Where are they? Where did they go?"
But if this year follows past years, this week's low will be followed by next week's increase. However I'll not be afield then.
Only saw a few troilus, both M and F, which is way down from the 2022 population explosion.
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Re: A parade of Catocala moths
by Trehopr1 » Wed Jul 24, 2024 8:24 pm
Your specimens certainly look very "minty" so the en-masse collecting that you do combined with the ULTIMATE knockdown agent has provided you with some incredible personal series of otherwise hard to find species.
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Re: Do you own a museum?
by Chuck » Wed Jul 24, 2024 3:17 pm
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Re: Do you own a museum?
by kevinkk » Wed Jul 24, 2024 3:08 pm
I can see the "Vicky" in the black and white picture. I've seen a lot of them when I lived and worked in northern Calif. every time we
had to go to Ferndale, it was a mixed blessing, those things are not easy to put roofs on, but they were always different.
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Re: Do you own a museum?
by Jshuey » Wed Jul 24, 2024 2:26 pm
So..., it was built as a typical Queen Ann Victorian with all he gingerbread and stuff sometime in the 1880's. But in the 1920's, it was remodeled into a "modern" house that was like an American four-square - only wood (I'm surrounded by brick four-squares). At that point, they ripped off the wrap around porch and removed the peaks from the roof line and completely reworked the interior. Interestingly, much of the new woodwork, the windows and the fireplace facades were secondhand, so they painted everything (and put stucco on the griffin fireplace). They did the whole nine yards - adding a new (but previously used) grand staircase that they painted lime green, those arches, new (used) windows, wool carpet over the parquet floors, - you name it - anything that was upper-class fashionable back in the roaring 20's.
We purchased the place in 2000 after 80 years of neglect (probably more like 40 years that the previous owners lived there). We ripped out the carpet to find the floors, stripped most of the woodwork that was oak, stripped the stairway, faux-grained the parts of the woodwork that was poplar, stripped the fireplaces, and rebuilt the parts that were literally falling down (there was an alcove in the kitchen, where if you looked up, you saw the sky, and if you looked down, the dirt craw-space). My wife led much of the work herself and coordinated the contractors that did the real heavy lifting. There are still a lot of things that are not quite completed - mostly details.
The exterior was nicer before the remodel for sure! This is the "official" street-facing side of the house - although we really live in the back. I had a really hard time convincing our son (at ~ 10 years old) which side was which - since he grew up on the back patio (and it also faces a street).
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Re: Do you own a museum?
by Chuck » Wed Jul 24, 2024 11:46 am
The results are astonishing- that building IS a museum itself. Clearly the original owner poured a ton of money into architecture and construction- but what style is it? I've never seen anything like it.
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Re: Do you own a museum?
by Jshuey » Tue Jul 23, 2024 5:44 pm
Back Yard
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Re: Coelocnemis dilaticollis longevity
by kevinkk » Tue Jul 23, 2024 3:27 pm
2 years, in captivity, of course, I don't think you can measure the lifespan of wild animals very easily, or with accuracy.
Well, hopefully I won't need provisions in my will for any long lived insects.
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Re: Do you own a museum?
by Chuck » Mon Jul 22, 2024 8:28 pm