OK, so how does one say "they don't have this blue on the FW" without acknowledging this one friggin' specimen? "rarely" seems to be imply perhaps it's more common.
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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Using absolutes: always, never
- Replies: 8
- Views: 270
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Thoughts on NABA?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 237
Re: Thoughts on NABA?
Bunch of tree huggers with big hearts and few brains. "we are shifting the paradigm from collectors with nets, capturing and killing butterflies, to enthusiasts with cameras and binoculars, capturing beautiful images of live butterflies in nature." That's nice. We need more photos of misid...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: I can't find my #@%*& type specimens!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 108
Re: I can't find my #@%*& type specimens!
What I typically do from time to time, is rearrange things, and put them in "better" places. I broke down and spent a weekend doing that last year. What a nightmare. I'd been sticking specimens wherever they fit physically, and I had taxa spread all over in the wrong places. If you want t...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: I can't find my #@%*& type specimens!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 108
Re: I can't find my #@%*& type specimens!
Thanks guys for your compassion. This all started actually a couple days ago when I couldn't find them. Yesterday I made a concerted effort to find them. I went through all my NA Papilio drawers (minus the machaon-types) looking. Four times. Studied each drawer. Nothing. As you probably observed, I ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: I can't find my #@%*& type specimens!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 108
I can't find my #@%*& type specimens!
I bought a ring light, experimented with it. Now time to re-photo the type specimens for publication. I cannot find them. This shouldn't be hard- all specimens, drawer after drawer after drawer, are collated chronologically. And the last drawer ends just before the capture dates of the type pair. So...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
- Replies: 11
- Views: 155
Re: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
I am missing the point of the original post. ..., step out of their field of expertise and rub elbows with the experienced. The motive isn't to get an answer. There are a myriad of reasons bots and scams post inaccurate stuff: 1. to identify the gullible, and identify those to avoid. This may be at...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
- Replies: 11
- Views: 155
Re: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
Well, if this is all the smarter that AI is at the moment, I'm not too worried about the future of humanity. j There are many with that consensus, and I believe it dangerous. Human technology went from biplanes to jets in six years. AI will mature far faster. It's already used quite often for uneth...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
- Replies: 11
- Views: 155
Re: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
I found this post strange, but I'm not sure it's AI ... wouldn't AI know that species names are spelt with a first small letter, and only genus names with a capital? Adam. AI is available in various packages (programs) and each have owner-adjustable settings for correctness, tone, writing level, an...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
- Replies: 11
- Views: 155
Re: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
It's either AI, or it's Voodoo.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
- Replies: 11
- Views: 155
Re: Clothes moths infestation — Tineola Bisselliella and Monopis Crocicapitella
Is this AI?
Are you from California or Oregon?
Do you smoke or weld?
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: Collecting in Vietnam
- Replies: 17
- Views: 633
Re: Collecting in Vietnam
When your at the airport. If you have to go to customs. The person I talked to with USFW said that in most cases. They will just ask if they are dead or alive. This is a topic they deal with all the time, that's what they said to me. Which airport? Who is "they"? Anything USFWS tells you ...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: Collecting in Vietnam
- Replies: 17
- Views: 633
Re: Collecting in Vietnam
Who will let you walk through, and where? Is that after or without informing in/out customs?nikiahloch wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:35 am but most of the time there's not permits required and most will let you walk through as long as they are dead and you aren't bringing endangered or protected species
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: Moths of North America (MONA) Catocala
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5058
Re: Moths of North America (MONA) Catocala
As Vernon pointed out and solely about MONA, the inconsiderate and unethical activities by professionals isn't new. I too have had my issues with those types in Entomology (to be fair, I've also been overjoyed with others.) Backstabbing and politicing in entomology is NOTHING- I think the Paleontol...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: Research position in Costa Rica!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7138
Re: Research position in Costa Rica!
Man, that's great! You survived a foreign country.
Would love to see some photos from CR.
Would love to see some photos from CR.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: Moths of North America (MONA) Catocala
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5058
Re: Moths of North America (MONA) Catocala
Ironically, the technology that has made production of MONA-type publications much easier has also killed hardcopy. Imagine when MONA first came out- expensive cameras and lights, expensive film, having to pay for publications, collaboration via snail mail. THEN to make a book- scissors to cut image...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: Collecting in Vietnam
- Replies: 17
- Views: 633
Re: Collecting in Vietnam
I sent an email to the Vietnam Department of Agriculture and still haven't heard back from them and that was 8 months ago, I leave the 30th of this month. I've contacted the US Department of Agriculture and even talked to someone and they said I don't need permits for importing dead insects in the ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Anisota virginiensis
- Replies: 5
- Views: 188
Re: Anisota virginiensis
Yes, as 58chevy said, it's related to rubicunda. More here too viewtopic.php?p=8763&hilit=rubicunda#p8763
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Global travel collecting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 784
Re: Global travel collecting
The good practice is to have a guide who will ask before entering a "land" the cost and negotiate it. Usually a pack of cigarettes + few dollars will make the job. If you don't negotiate "before", then they will ask you to pay "to leave the land"... and here the cost c...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:15 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Global travel collecting
- Replies: 33
- Views: 784
Re: Global travel collecting
Some fearmongering has been presented concerning foreign languages, this warrants some clarification. Humans are adept at learning foreign languages. It is not for the Mensa, or the linguistic experts. Even the most simple, uneducated, and slow person can learn multiple languages through exposure. I...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Shiiping dead insects from other countries into the USA
- Replies: 5
- Views: 215
Re: Shiiping dead insects from other countries into the USA
This comes up constantly. What should be done by an interested party is to analyze the current import regulations for personal use. The easiest way is to line-out the sections, paragraphs, and sentences that don't apply to personal use (eg. anything to do with commercial, institution, etc.) which le...