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- Fri May 10, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Tiger Swallowtails of NY: Finger Lakes, Part II
- Replies: 102
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Re: Tiger Swallowtails of NY: Finger Lakes, Part II
07 May 2024: back at it, albeit in KY. More than a dozen Tigers spotted, couldn't net a single one- all flying somewhere fast and erratic. I couldn't get to a couple of my favored sites because of flooding.
- Fri May 10, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Eurytides marcellus
- Replies: 8
- Views: 856
Re: Eurytides marcellus
I saw Papilio troilus, and undetermined thing like P tharos, and blues puddling, but in KY last week no marcellus puddling. In fact, I've never seen marcellus puddle. Interesting. I only brought two specimens back, I believe a pair, and the difference is interesting, one that is definitely female is...
- Fri May 10, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Strategus mormon
- Replies: 2
- Views: 105
Re: Strategus mormon
Always cool to see a low-catch specimen. And yes, Coleoptera as well.
- Fri May 10, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Vanessa atalanta migration 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 299
Re: Vanessa atalanta migration 2024
I just returned from northern KY. There are many beat V atlanta there, but perhaps 20% of what I'm seeing in Upstate NY.
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Buying specimens in bulk for an entomology workshop
- Replies: 1
- Views: 104
Re: Buying specimens in bulk for an entomology workshop
I have a bin of various dried US leps you can have. They are of course papered and dried, so would require softening in order to be spread. I'm amazed I even have any. I always kept many extras around for projects such as this, but it's been a long time since anyone had asked me so I unloaded thousa...
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Eurytides marcellus
- Replies: 8
- Views: 856
Re: Eurytides marcellus
I just returned from northern KY (Bullitt County) and E. marcellus is everywhere. They were common along an overgrown dirt road under power lines, some resting in the grass. Most though were nectaring (exclusively) on white blackberry flowers. Some were quite fresh, indicating recent eclosion. In th...
- Mon May 06, 2024 12:21 pm
- Forum: Insect identification
- Topic: Blood Sucking Mites living on our skin
- Replies: 9
- Views: 335
Re: Blood Sucking Mites living on our skin
You guys are just brutal. The pictures were taking when they were biting us as you can see they are sitting on our skin and you can actually see their legs are going inside our skin. Take a close look before you judge people. If you don't know that's ok we haven't had anyone able to identify them b...
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Vanessa atalanta migration 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 299
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Vanessa atalanta migration 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 299
Re: Questionable Question Marks
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 ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Vanessa atalanta migration 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 299
Vanessa atalanta migration 2024
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 ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: IN Marketplace, Classifieds difference?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 62
IN Marketplace, Classifieds difference?
I'm unclear why IN has both Classifieds and Marketplace. What's the difference?
Which would be the best to sell some antique and classic entomology books?
Which would be the best to sell some antique and classic entomology books?
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: Technical Questions or Issues
- Topic: resource limit reached
- Replies: 11
- Views: 450
Re: resource limit reached
Just for reference, it did it again at 1:30pm Eastern.
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Exactly what is Hyphantria cunea?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 142
Re: Exactly what is Hyphantria cunea?
That luna is spectacular. I have a specimen from KY that has purple edging, but no vertical stripes. AFAIK nobody has done genetic analysis to see what the relationship tree is for luna. Who knows what is variation, and what is something taxonomically significant. Vernon's series of Hyphantria is im...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Thoughts on NABA?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 645
Re: Thoughts on NABA?
If they just used common sense, There's your problem. Look, it is universal country-wide that one cannot catch and kill song birds, despite many having very healthy populations. Meanwhile, house cats are allowed to roam freely and have been documented to have a significant negative impact on song b...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Exactly what is Hyphantria cunea?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 142
Re: Exactly what is Hyphantria cunea?
Excellent. Of course, field guides have limited space. Species descriptions though often show only one/ one pair, and I have this feeling that the type specimens depicted are sometimes cherry-picked to match the morphological description/ differentiators.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Questionable Question Marks
- Replies: 4
- Views: 350
Re: Questionable Question Marks
Wisconsin is more like Canada than Upstate NY, so it's quite likely that many or most species can't overwinter. In Upstate NY we have several Nymphalid species that overwinter. The appearance of various Nymphalid species may be migration (e.g., Vanessa) or it may be just massive population explosion...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: Technical Questions or Issues
- Topic: resource limit reached
- Replies: 11
- Views: 450
Re: resource limit reached
This type of message is usually used when the host servers are swamped. It's to avoid further usage of the servers, which may serve one website or twenty. Typical causes of high traffic swamping are (1) content that is getting a lot of views [not likely on insectnet, but they might also host a porn ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Using absolutes: always, never
- Replies: 8
- Views: 478
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Thoughts on NABA?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 645
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: 460
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...