Thanks Adam. Sorry just saw your post after I posted my update. Still freaked out about it being in my ear, but glad it's not dangerousadamcotton wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:25 pm That's a carpet beetle larva, family Dermestidae.
What looks like 'lots of legs' is actually bristles.
Adam.
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Re: Weird insect - in my ear!
by flyaway146 » Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:26 pm
Mystery solved - I think.
Seems to be carpet beetle larva. Assume it was crawling on the pillow because of the fabric and fell into my ear.
Seems to be carpet beetle larva. Assume it was crawling on the pillow because of the fabric and fell into my ear.
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Re: Weird insect - in my ear!
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That's a carpet beetle larva, family Dermestidae.
What looks like 'lots of legs' is actually bristles.
Adam.
What looks like 'lots of legs' is actually bristles.
Adam.
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Weird insect - in my ear!
by flyaway146 » Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:13 pm
I felt something in my ear earlier and found an insect in there (outer ear). Not sure if it crawled in there from a cushion behind my head or if it was in there for a while (creepy!). I'd seen one of these in the bathroom recently but ignored it.
I can't seem to identify it - have looked on a number of websites. It's about 5mm in width. Has a light brown body with a black "tail". Lots of legs.
A photo is attached.
If anyone can help, would appreciate it!
Thanks
I can't seem to identify it - have looked on a number of websites. It's about 5mm in width. Has a light brown body with a black "tail". Lots of legs.
A photo is attached.
If anyone can help, would appreciate it!
Thanks
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Re: Every year I say I'm going to AZ "next year"
by vabrou » Sun Oct 01, 2023 4:29 pm
The heat and humidity in Louisiana is atrocious (usually around 100% day and night). I would usually have (4) box fans plugged inside of my tent. One year I even placed a small 110 volt electric window ac in my tent out in the field. But one must modify the water drain by connecting to a long tube exiting 10-20' away from tent. The AC along with a $20.00 box fan makes one want to stay in the tent. On collecting field trips during winter months I used two electric oil-filled heaters in my tent.
A real nice field collecting experience was access to an air conditioned/heated field cabin we recently used over 2 1/2 years in north Louisiana operating hundreds of traps. Only drawback was the 700 mile round trip to drive to that cabin. 2 jpgs. Drawer 3 of 4 on 1 light trap and drawer 1 of 4 same light trap collection chamber.
And people don't believe me when I tell them I once captured here at my home 124 million specimens (volume-wise that is about five 5-gallon buckets filled to overflowing). Pounds upon pounds of coleoptera. And I did not bother attempting to count all the millions of specimens on the ground and vegetation surrounding the areas of the 180 traps I was running.
A real nice field collecting experience was access to an air conditioned/heated field cabin we recently used over 2 1/2 years in north Louisiana operating hundreds of traps. Only drawback was the 700 mile round trip to drive to that cabin. 2 jpgs. Drawer 3 of 4 on 1 light trap and drawer 1 of 4 same light trap collection chamber.
And people don't believe me when I tell them I once captured here at my home 124 million specimens (volume-wise that is about five 5-gallon buckets filled to overflowing). Pounds upon pounds of coleoptera. And I did not bother attempting to count all the millions of specimens on the ground and vegetation surrounding the areas of the 180 traps I was running.
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Re: Shipping dilemma
by kevinkk » Sun Oct 01, 2023 3:41 pm
For in the states, I use flat rate priority nearly all the time, never a problem. For our information- there are no longer first class parcels, it has been
changed to "parcel select ground", or some configuration of those words, it's just a name change. They still come with tracking at no extra charge.
I keep a digital scale and use the postal shipping calculator as well if I need to send something cheaper, or something that can last a few more
days in transit, much of the time, it turns out the same delivery time as it is.
Plan ahead! bring some of those pesky customs forms home with you! I can't stand it being behind people in line who have apparently never seen
the inside of a post office, or people who probably know better and come unprepared...can I use your tape?? And your writing utensil?
Depending on your situation, insurance may be comforting, however, if you're doing something illegal, you're unlikely to be reimbursed. For all it's faults, I will continue to use USPS, it is a choice.
I have a favorite clerk, and will stay in line sometimes to make sure I get to the person I like, "it's ok, you go ahead to the newbie".
When I was younger, I even delivered mail, it was on Grandma's rural route... Uncle was a postmaster, and Mom a substitute. Took many years of
osmosis to realize why none of Granny's comic books and magazines had no covers-
The post office website does have all kinds of free products, like padded flat rate priority envelopes, and different size boxes than they have
in the lobby.
changed to "parcel select ground", or some configuration of those words, it's just a name change. They still come with tracking at no extra charge.
I keep a digital scale and use the postal shipping calculator as well if I need to send something cheaper, or something that can last a few more
days in transit, much of the time, it turns out the same delivery time as it is.
Plan ahead! bring some of those pesky customs forms home with you! I can't stand it being behind people in line who have apparently never seen
the inside of a post office, or people who probably know better and come unprepared...can I use your tape?? And your writing utensil?
Depending on your situation, insurance may be comforting, however, if you're doing something illegal, you're unlikely to be reimbursed. For all it's faults, I will continue to use USPS, it is a choice.
I have a favorite clerk, and will stay in line sometimes to make sure I get to the person I like, "it's ok, you go ahead to the newbie".
When I was younger, I even delivered mail, it was on Grandma's rural route... Uncle was a postmaster, and Mom a substitute. Took many years of
osmosis to realize why none of Granny's comic books and magazines had no covers-
The post office website does have all kinds of free products, like padded flat rate priority envelopes, and different size boxes than they have
in the lobby.
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Chuck,
This was part of my experimentation with operating light traps at different heights. There have been several journal publications from the 1950s-1960s discussing this subject, even one publication where a Louisiana state record skipper species was captured in an entomological survey in North Louisiana using an airplane. Some light trap studies were done using traps mounted at different elevations of forest fire towers. What I discovered over the past half century is that the more delicate species e.g. geometrids, pyralids, and smaller micros are much less often captured at traps operating at greater heights. Sphingids occurred in greater quantities at higher elevations, and the most delicate species are most often captured at heights of 1-3 feet above ground. The image of a trap operating 53 feet above ground is just one of many heights I operated light traps. The traps we operated at 1-3 feet heights are responsible for large numbers of numerous new Louisiana state record lepidoptera species, and including discoveries of many species new to science. All of these records are examples of how we were able to discover over 400 species of just moths new to science in Louisiana. So, we not only learned a lot, but we proved these matters using basic scientific methods, but consider 'NO ONE' else has bothered to do this even to today -2023.
More noteworthy concerning trap heights is that the optimal best height for best volume of captures is getting the traps just above the more dense lower secondary growth, not necessarily above the largest trees. You can see what I mean in the original image of a light trap operating at a height of 53'. Note the lower half of that photo illustrates (secondary) dense lower growth.
Another example of just one aspect of our research is, we have been preparing a manuscript where a Gulf-coast (including Louisiana) clearwing moth species has been reported by researchers (those deemed published N.A. Sesiidae experts for the past century) to have one extended annual brood occurring January through December, even in the most current (1988) MONA fascicle on Sesiidae. Each subsequent sesiid author over the past century also were repeating what the earlier authors have also repeated, just as occurs in all of the scientific literature on N.A. Lepidoptera. We discovered there is actually (4) four annual broods of this clearwing moth species in N.A. Right now the fourth annual brood of this particular species is occurring here this year. We run our traps every day of every year to get these actual daily documented data points, as we have done daily for the past 54 years.
To do these things we did not apply meaningless statistical formulas to prove science as fact, as so much of existing scientific literature contains today, but we collected and counted each and every wild adult clearwing moth (100%) captured daily 365-366 days for the past 54 years (no statistical formulas used). I am not a person to speak negatively about statistics, as my only college 'A'' -grades are in statistical courses, and I was employed specifically in Quality Assurance/Quality Control for about 10 years of my early work history in which I used statistical formulas daily.
We began these entomological phenology studies in 1970 when the first 'Moths of North America' MONA fascicle was published on the family Sphingidae and we recognized there was made-up and anecdotal opinions stated as factual and plagiarized phenology crap throughout the book. Now, we went a bit overboard in eventually publishing a 30-year non-stop study of the Sphingidae of Louisiana which covered the years (1970-1999) in which we counted daily and reported capturing 83,889 wild adult Sphingidae specimens representing 46 species within the state of Louisiana, including discovering two new hawk moth species, both from right here at my home location.
And the majority of all our 461 entomological publications to date includes 365-366 day phenology data. SO 'WE LEARNED QUITE A LOT, going 'where no researchers have gone before'. Here is a jpg illustrating small series of a sample (~250 males and females) of a newly discovered clearwing moth nearly all collected using MV light traps running about (1-2) feet above ground. I hope to describe this species and 25 or other new clearwing moth species we discovered here in Louisiana. Covell (1984) and (2005) stated only one species of clearwing moth is attracted to UV light, yet I have personally captured ~100,000 clearwing moths representing ~30 different clearwing moth species in my UV light traps here in Louisiana. Obviously, that statement is not true.
Here is a phenogram illustrating the (4) annual broods we recorded occurring in Louisiana for the hawkmoth species Paonias myops in Louisiana. Paonias myops (J. E. Smith): four broods, first peaking late March; peaks two through four occur at approximately 50-day intervals, beginning early June. P. myops was previously reported by Beutenmüller (1895) as probably double-brooded near New York City, by Hodges in MONA (1970-71) as seemingly single-brooded (March through October), and by Heitzman (1987) as having multiple broods in Missouri. Look for yourself at my published phenogram (pasted here) concerning Paonias myops in Louisiana. How many annual broods do you count, certainly not one annual brood stated in MONA ? Handy jpg of a male Paonias myops from Louisiana attached
Hodges in MONA also reported the two other species of the genus Paonias occurring in N.A. as each having '2' annual broods. But, neither actually have two annual broods in N.A., in fact we proved these two species as well have '4' annual broods in Louisiana. In fact only a single species addressed by Brou and Brou and by Hodges in (MONA) of the 58 hawkmoth species occurring in Louisiana had the correct phenology stated by Hodges. Brou Jr., V.A. and C.D. Brou 1997. Distribution and phenologies of Louisiana Sphingidae. Jour. Lepid. Soc. 51:156-175
I will end my comments by saying what I have said for most of the past half century "DON''T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ IN OUR SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE" no matter how many PhDs say so. The vast majority of our scientific literature is simply plagiarized by current authors. What is not plagiarized is simply anecdotal opinions without any proofs. If you don't agree, then your spending too many hours out in the field and not in your library.
This was part of my experimentation with operating light traps at different heights. There have been several journal publications from the 1950s-1960s discussing this subject, even one publication where a Louisiana state record skipper species was captured in an entomological survey in North Louisiana using an airplane. Some light trap studies were done using traps mounted at different elevations of forest fire towers. What I discovered over the past half century is that the more delicate species e.g. geometrids, pyralids, and smaller micros are much less often captured at traps operating at greater heights. Sphingids occurred in greater quantities at higher elevations, and the most delicate species are most often captured at heights of 1-3 feet above ground. The image of a trap operating 53 feet above ground is just one of many heights I operated light traps. The traps we operated at 1-3 feet heights are responsible for large numbers of numerous new Louisiana state record lepidoptera species, and including discoveries of many species new to science. All of these records are examples of how we were able to discover over 400 species of just moths new to science in Louisiana. So, we not only learned a lot, but we proved these matters using basic scientific methods, but consider 'NO ONE' else has bothered to do this even to today -2023.
More noteworthy concerning trap heights is that the optimal best height for best volume of captures is getting the traps just above the more dense lower secondary growth, not necessarily above the largest trees. You can see what I mean in the original image of a light trap operating at a height of 53'. Note the lower half of that photo illustrates (secondary) dense lower growth.
Another example of just one aspect of our research is, we have been preparing a manuscript where a Gulf-coast (including Louisiana) clearwing moth species has been reported by researchers (those deemed published N.A. Sesiidae experts for the past century) to have one extended annual brood occurring January through December, even in the most current (1988) MONA fascicle on Sesiidae. Each subsequent sesiid author over the past century also were repeating what the earlier authors have also repeated, just as occurs in all of the scientific literature on N.A. Lepidoptera. We discovered there is actually (4) four annual broods of this clearwing moth species in N.A. Right now the fourth annual brood of this particular species is occurring here this year. We run our traps every day of every year to get these actual daily documented data points, as we have done daily for the past 54 years.
To do these things we did not apply meaningless statistical formulas to prove science as fact, as so much of existing scientific literature contains today, but we collected and counted each and every wild adult clearwing moth (100%) captured daily 365-366 days for the past 54 years (no statistical formulas used). I am not a person to speak negatively about statistics, as my only college 'A'' -grades are in statistical courses, and I was employed specifically in Quality Assurance/Quality Control for about 10 years of my early work history in which I used statistical formulas daily.
We began these entomological phenology studies in 1970 when the first 'Moths of North America' MONA fascicle was published on the family Sphingidae and we recognized there was made-up and anecdotal opinions stated as factual and plagiarized phenology crap throughout the book. Now, we went a bit overboard in eventually publishing a 30-year non-stop study of the Sphingidae of Louisiana which covered the years (1970-1999) in which we counted daily and reported capturing 83,889 wild adult Sphingidae specimens representing 46 species within the state of Louisiana, including discovering two new hawk moth species, both from right here at my home location.
And the majority of all our 461 entomological publications to date includes 365-366 day phenology data. SO 'WE LEARNED QUITE A LOT, going 'where no researchers have gone before'. Here is a jpg illustrating small series of a sample (~250 males and females) of a newly discovered clearwing moth nearly all collected using MV light traps running about (1-2) feet above ground. I hope to describe this species and 25 or other new clearwing moth species we discovered here in Louisiana. Covell (1984) and (2005) stated only one species of clearwing moth is attracted to UV light, yet I have personally captured ~100,000 clearwing moths representing ~30 different clearwing moth species in my UV light traps here in Louisiana. Obviously, that statement is not true.
Here is a phenogram illustrating the (4) annual broods we recorded occurring in Louisiana for the hawkmoth species Paonias myops in Louisiana. Paonias myops (J. E. Smith): four broods, first peaking late March; peaks two through four occur at approximately 50-day intervals, beginning early June. P. myops was previously reported by Beutenmüller (1895) as probably double-brooded near New York City, by Hodges in MONA (1970-71) as seemingly single-brooded (March through October), and by Heitzman (1987) as having multiple broods in Missouri. Look for yourself at my published phenogram (pasted here) concerning Paonias myops in Louisiana. How many annual broods do you count, certainly not one annual brood stated in MONA ? Handy jpg of a male Paonias myops from Louisiana attached
Hodges in MONA also reported the two other species of the genus Paonias occurring in N.A. as each having '2' annual broods. But, neither actually have two annual broods in N.A., in fact we proved these two species as well have '4' annual broods in Louisiana. In fact only a single species addressed by Brou and Brou and by Hodges in (MONA) of the 58 hawkmoth species occurring in Louisiana had the correct phenology stated by Hodges. Brou Jr., V.A. and C.D. Brou 1997. Distribution and phenologies of Louisiana Sphingidae. Jour. Lepid. Soc. 51:156-175
I will end my comments by saying what I have said for most of the past half century "DON''T BELIEVE ANYTHING YOU READ IN OUR SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE" no matter how many PhDs say so. The vast majority of our scientific literature is simply plagiarized by current authors. What is not plagiarized is simply anecdotal opinions without any proofs. If you don't agree, then your spending too many hours out in the field and not in your library.
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Re: What type of bug is it?
by WiseCat » Sun Oct 01, 2023 8:02 am
After investigating further, I realize it was a bird mite. I have found some nymphs too and there has been a bird nest over my apartment for 2 months.
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Drosophila hydei
by Temnothorax » Sun Oct 01, 2023 2:11 am
Hi,
Is that virgin female Drosophila hydei? Any other guesses? Collected in west Tennessee
Thanks
Is that virgin female Drosophila hydei? Any other guesses? Collected in west Tennessee
Thanks
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Re: Every year I say I'm going to AZ "next year"
by jhyatt » Sat Sep 30, 2023 1:17 pm
Chuck,
Been there, done that. Many years ago a group of 4 or 5 of us spent a long week collecting all over SE AZ during that period. Two drove out in a van with the generator, light traps, batteries, bait, etc; the rest of us flew to Phoenix and rented cars. We stayed in motels some, and rented a cabin for a couple of nights. It was a great trip, collecting was fine (butterflies as well as moths), and heat was just not a problem. Go for it!
That said, some of the best collecting was on the army's Fort Huachuca property, and I'm not sure that one can get permission to collect there post-9/11. Pena Blanca was very good (only time I ever saw a 3-gallon bucket trap filled nearly to the top with moths), but there were many other great spots.
jh
Been there, done that. Many years ago a group of 4 or 5 of us spent a long week collecting all over SE AZ during that period. Two drove out in a van with the generator, light traps, batteries, bait, etc; the rest of us flew to Phoenix and rented cars. We stayed in motels some, and rented a cabin for a couple of nights. It was a great trip, collecting was fine (butterflies as well as moths), and heat was just not a problem. Go for it!
That said, some of the best collecting was on the army's Fort Huachuca property, and I'm not sure that one can get permission to collect there post-9/11. Pena Blanca was very good (only time I ever saw a 3-gallon bucket trap filled nearly to the top with moths), but there were many other great spots.
jh
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Re: What type of bug is it?
by WiseCat » Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:55 am
Thanks Adam I get your points. It’s reinsuring. I can’t see eight legs on my photo and on other photos / videos I took. How come?
And do you know what tick has this color and body shape? I have googled photos of ticks and can’t find one that looks similar.
Thanks!
And do you know what tick has this color and body shape? I have googled photos of ticks and can’t find one that looks similar.
Thanks!
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Re: What type of bug is it?
by adamcotton » Sat Sep 30, 2023 9:10 am
A bed bug has 3 pairs of legs, whereas a tick has 4 pairs. Also bed bugs are more rounded in shape and have a distinctly segmented abdomen. Try a Google search on 'bed bugs' and you can see what they look like.
Adam.
Adam.
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Re: What type of bug is it?
by WiseCat » Sat Sep 30, 2023 6:50 am
OK thanks! How can we be sure it is not a bed bug?
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What type of bug is it?
by WiseCat » Sat Sep 30, 2023 2:53 am
Insect found on my bed. Size is slightly more than 1 mm (c. 1.3 mm).
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Re: Mould removal from specimens
by Annarobertson1947 » Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:56 am
Thanks Adam.
Yes an abdomen, all my Iphimedeia specimens are well endowed with abdomens.
I posted a reference to the reclassified theseus grp on books and publications section
Yes an abdomen, all my Iphimedeia specimens are well endowed with abdomens.
I posted a reference to the reclassified theseus grp on books and publications section
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Re: Every year I say I'm going to AZ "next year"
by MikeH » Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:32 am
I'd be game for something, might be wiser to vrbo or something with ac and a freezer instead of an rv.
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Every year I say I'm going to AZ "next year"
by Chuck » Fri Sep 29, 2023 7:22 pm
Every year, usually in late August, I tell myself I'll make it to Pena Blanca AZ for the monsoons "next year."
This has been going on for years.
Wish there was a way to make it happen. To plan early, block out the time, and GO.
It would probably help if we had a whole crew- rent a motorhome, rent a few generators, and meet in Tucson.
What's the chance of a bunch of us meeting up there in 2024?
This has been going on for years.
Wish there was a way to make it happen. To plan early, block out the time, and GO.
It would probably help if we had a whole crew- rent a motorhome, rent a few generators, and meet in Tucson.
What's the chance of a bunch of us meeting up there in 2024?
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Re: Shipping dilemma
by jhyatt » Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:38 pm
I just went to the central PO in town and mailed my parcel for less than half what the original local PO clerk told me was the cheapest way. I reboxed it in a larger (9X6X6) box, which more than doubled the weight, but it avoided a small-box surcharge and some risk of loss. The clerk I used today admitted that the "First Class International Package" category was not advertised on the P.O. boards showing various classes; he said they seemed to want to keep it hidden. He also said that the clerk I originally saw needs to come in for some training!
Pirateship.com would have saved me about $1.50, BTW.
Thanks,
jh
Pirateship.com would have saved me about $1.50, BTW.
Thanks,
jh