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- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:16 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: Tiger Beetles Zoom Meeting
- Replies: 0
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Tiger Beetles Zoom Meeting
ABF zoom presentation on Tiger Beetles of Texas Monday, March 25 @ 7 PM central time Mike Quinn via listserv.uh.edu Mar 23, 2024, 10:39 PM (11 hours ago) to TX-BUTTERFLY Greetings, Dr. C. Barry Knisley will present to the Austin Butterfly Forum on TIGER BEETLES; BIOLOGY, CONSERVATION, AND DIVERSITY ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: A beautiful fournierae pair
- Replies: 7
- Views: 318
Re: A beautiful fournierae pair
Very nice pair, Anna!
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: A parade of Catocala moths
- Replies: 32
- Views: 627
Re: A parade of Catocala moths
I agree with the above comments. Love 'em.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: Favorite Classic & Modern Insect Books
- Replies: 7
- Views: 237
Re: Favorite Classic & Modern Insect Books
Boghaunter, please show us some plates from the books you mentioned.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Eumaeus debora
- Replies: 1
- Views: 183
Re: Eumaeus debora
Wow, I love that genus. Very nice.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:12 am
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Making a butterfly decoy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 306
Re: Making a butterfly decoy
This might help lure tigers:
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:11 am
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Making a butterfly decoy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 306
Re: Making a butterfly decoy
There is a metallic blue mylar balloon stuck in a tree near my house. It looks a lot like a morpho. Maybe it would be a good lure.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Live butterflies exhibit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 346
Re: Live butterflies exhibit
Yes, it's the Cockrell. Mike Whitley's collection is still owned by the museum but most of it is kept in a building that is not adjacent to the main museum. He kept collecting after he sold the collection. He is now deceased but his wife has the specimens he collected after the sale. I don't know ho...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Live butterflies exhibit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 346
Re: Live butterflies exhibit
There is a similar butterfly dome in Houston. They used to sell the specimens that had died for $2 each, but they had to stop doing that for legal reasons.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: More Spring Captures
- Replies: 10
- Views: 220
Re: More Spring Captures
D kendalli is on my radar. I plan to look for it soon.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:22 am
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: More Spring Captures
- Replies: 10
- Views: 220
Re: More Spring Captures
P palamedes is the most common swallowtail in the Houston area. They are everywhere.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:46 am
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: More Spring Captures
- Replies: 10
- Views: 220
Re: More Spring Captures
A few more: palamedes, glaucus, cresphontes, D rubicunda, P sennae, A nicippe
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Live butterflies exhibit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 346
Re: Live butterflies exhibit
Great shots. How much longer will the exhibit be there?
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:33 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: More Spring Captures
- Replies: 10
- Views: 220
More Spring Captures
A Luna, A polyphemus, Paonias excaecatus, Smerinthus jamaicensis
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: Beautiful Plates in a 1910 German Book
- Replies: 13
- Views: 328
Re: Beautiful Plates in a 1910 German Book
They don't publish books like that anymore. Thanks for sharing.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:17 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Net bag color?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13060
Re: Net bag color?
Another P palamedes flew into my white net today.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Spring Captures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 280
Spring Captures
A few butterflies from last month
Left: Anthocharis midea, Abaeis nicippe, Callophrys niphon
Right: A. midea, Polygonia interrogationis (winter form)
Note the professional-quality spreading boards (Hey, they work.)
Left: Anthocharis midea, Abaeis nicippe, Callophrys niphon
Right: A. midea, Polygonia interrogationis (winter form)
Note the professional-quality spreading boards (Hey, they work.)
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 4:02 am
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: Kawahara Smithsonian Article
- Replies: 2
- Views: 294
Re: Kawahara Smithsonian Article
Pages 3 & 4:
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 3:58 am
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: Kawahara Smithsonian Article
- Replies: 2
- Views: 294
Kawahara Smithsonian Article
Pages ! & 2, from the latest issue:
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Agapema homogena
- Replies: 6
- Views: 458
Re: Agapema homogena
Nice moth. Here's a pair of mine from Colorado: