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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.
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Newbie: looking for info on life cycle times
by Pedz » Thu May 02, 2024 2:58 pm
I’m a total newbie. I’m a retired programmer turned photographer. I have this fellow (see video) in my house and I’m hoping I can keep him happy until he turns into a pupa and then turns into a moth but I’m wondering about the timing. I want to do a time lapse. What would be great is to capture a time lapse of it turning into a pupa as well as when the moth comes out. But if I knew the timing it would help me prepare.
I’m hoping folks here can help me out. I’m in Austin, TX. I believe this is a Giant Leopard Moth Caterpillar.
https://youtu.be/xdmj1M4XbNU?si=usvaETR8_czAGvfE
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Re: Need help finding Ebay seller Ameriana
by adamcotton » Thu May 02, 2024 8:11 am
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Re: Need help finding Ebay seller Ameriana
by Annarobertson1947 » Wed May 01, 2024 11:48 pm
I was wondering as he usually is on Ebay, thought i got Ebay name wrong :bobw wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 7:29 amThat's because he's got nothing for sale right now.Annarobertson1947 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:43 pm Yep, same result i got ,nothing to show
Will wait and tryin a week or so
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Re: Bad Trading Report - Francisco Javier Castillo Garcia
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by Chuck » Wed May 01, 2024 6:02 pm
I suspect it would be possible to track the migration of (for example. V atlanta) with iNaturalist. Since one can filter by date, it would be possible to start "this week" and start working backwards. It would though reflect both emergences and migration; in the case of the V atlanta here, which are beat, I suspect that the "beat up butterfly" trend would be visually obvious from individual iNat records during those periods. Just an idea.livingplanet3 wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 5:33 pm
Here in North TX, for weeks now, I've been seeing more V. atalanta than ever before - absolute swarms of them. Of course, TX has always been a great place to see swarms of things, but the butterfly numbers here this spring are really outstanding. Not just atalanta, but also cardui and virginiensis are quite abundant. Many Polygonia interrogationis and Battus philenor as well, among others such as Danaus gilippus, D. plexippus, Anaea andria, and numerous Pieridae.
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by Trehopr1 » Wed May 01, 2024 5:35 pm
I still recall quite vividly the experience that I had in my early teens when some friends stopped over at my house and told me about all these monarch butterflies landing on a huge tree branch by a neighbor's house.
I ran over to investigate and sure enough we were experiencing a monarch overnighting "roost".
It would be the one and only time I would ever see such a phenomenon as that....
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by livingplanet3 » Wed May 01, 2024 5:33 pm
Here in North TX, for weeks now, I've been seeing more V. atalanta than ever before - absolute swarms of them. Of course, TX has always been a great place to see swarms of things, but the butterfly numbers here this spring are really outstanding. Not just atalanta, but also cardui and virginiensis are quite abundant. Many Polygonia interrogationis and Battus philenor as well, among others such as Danaus gilippus, D. plexippus, Anaea andria, and numerous Pieridae.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.
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Re: Questionable Question Marks
by Chuck » Wed May 01, 2024 5:16 pm
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.
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Re: Need help finding Ebay seller Ameriana
by bobw » Wed May 01, 2024 7:29 am
That's because he's got nothing for sale right now.Annarobertson1947 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:43 pm Yep, same result i got ,nothing to show
Will wait and tryin a week or so
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Re: Need help finding Ebay seller Ameriana
by Annarobertson1947 » Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:43 pm
Will wait and tryin a week or so