The main issue we are worried about is that if it happens to a new user they may not want to use Insectnet any more.

Adam.

This surprise moth hatched from a cocoon (pictured) supposed to have been Epiphora sp. Origin Central Africa
I tried an image search, (for the first time) and found something similar. Gonometa sp. looked close, but not exact.
Amazing cocoon construction, hard as a rock. All the material is identical, and no others have hatched.

I have seen that a few times this week. I just try to load the page later in the day and it’s usually fine.

Super!
I was unsure if it was happening to others, and the way to find out is to ask. As good as my provider claims to be, one never knows,
streaming takes a nap often enough, and the official answers from tech support are usually laughable, or simply annoying.

Thank you for the reply.

The problem is not recurring today. Hopefully it has been solved.

Adam.

Hello everyone,

Wisconsin this year had an exceedingly warm early spring. The usual migrating Vanessid butterflies showed up around 2-4 weeks early in unusually large amounts. Colias and Papilio glaucus also showed up unseasonably early.

Question Marks in Wisconsin are weird. Instead of overwintering in their fall form which they do in much of the United States, they migrate up to the southeast and west in their summer form during May (with black hindwings) and spread northward. These adults then die off and we see the real summer form emerging in late June. We then see the crisp, fall forms in August and September before disappearing. They rarely show up after early October (although they have been seen as late as November.) None of this makes sense to me. What brood are these supposedly summer forms migrating up in May? Where are they flying from? I see overwintered, fall forms in Illinois and Missouri. But not Wisconsin.

This year has been even weirder with summer forms showing up in pristine condition in early April. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, guys, for your answers. Even if collections told us nothing, it still would be a neutral on stable populations of species according to various studies. If they just used common sense, they would see that being anti collecting is silly. Surely these people are super knowledgeable on Lepidoptera. They should know the huge reproductive capacity of insects.

I remember seeing a Karner Blue habitat being torn to pieces by ATV routes cutting right through. I remember finding many dead Limenitis carcasses on the roads. They don't complain about that as much as they do with collecting.

I check Insectnet several times daily and strangely this evening Thai time the home page was unusually sluggish loading, first giving this error but loaded on refresh. When it did load correctly I tried to open the sections with new posts, but each gave me this error. When I have had this problem before, refreshing the page always led to it loading properly but this evening one repeated the error and the other gave me another error which I copied and sent to wollastoni. Perhaps that will help his hosting company find the source of the problem.

Adam.

PS. Most of the time Insectnet loads normally, but every so often this error recurs.

Hi, yes we have often this issue.
It seems to affect the whole insectnet website, but we haven’t found the reason behind with Inmotion team…

kevinkk wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:34 pm Just curious.
Does anyone else get a message like this " resource limit reached" this happens from time to time, and the page simply won't load ?
Conjecture is welcome, but our internet connection is a good one with faster than typical speed, and the computer I use is 6 months old.

I get the message quite often.

The inspector might have identified it for you, but as a former contractor I never put much faith in home inspectors to begin with.
Before you move in, try some bug bombs, or traps, professional pest control is dubious.

Just curious.
Does anyone else get a message like this " resource limit reached" this happens from time to time, and the page simply won't load ?
Conjecture is welcome, but our internet connection is a good one with faster than typical speed, and the computer I use is 6 months old.

Cabinfever wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:07 pm We found this roach during our new house pre purchase inspection. Very concerned it’s a roach that can be hard to remove once inside. What type?

It appears to be a nymph of either the Smoky Brown Cockroach -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokybrown_cockroach

or the American Cockroach -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach

We found this roach during our new house pre purchase inspection. Very concerned it’s a roach that can be hard to remove once inside. What type?

I agree with all the above. For me, a physical scientific collection is priceless and cannot be replicated with photographs of live individuals.

Here are a couple more of my Tearful Underwing
(Catocala lacrymosa) captures featuring that
"marbled" appearance which only shows itself
periodically here and there. Quite noticeable
against the general torrent of "typical" ones
that I've encountered.

Our Youthful Underwing (Catocala subnata) is a
large (80-90mm) species with a yellow/orange
appearance to its hindwings. In my general area
it remains an infrequent visitor to light or bait.
Been a few years since I've encountered one....



The similarly sized yet, much more common
Catocala neogama is easily confused with this one.

Photos of wild insects are just pretty pictures, even in some of my guide books, by well known persons have less than stellar photos, and I take pictures as well, they go in the digital photo frame.
Next time use a better acronym.