Just how nature works. Most things are not perfectly symmetric. People, for example, will have arms and legs that are different by a few mm. Some people have differences that are much more pronounced, perhaps 1-2 cm, which will affect the tilt of their pelvis and posture.

I do think he is knowledgeable. He is pretty active on FB and I think that’s where he gets a lot of customers. Lots of newbies on FB too.

Concur with Chuck.

I have not received anything.

Yes, I forgot to mention humidity is a factor and fridges dry things out. I store bugs in almost airtight containers and ziploc bag them. They won’t asphyxiate.

I don’t have numbers on fertility but I have done this with silkmoths and they can live a month or more in the fridge. Their metabolism isn’t zero, so over time they do get weaker and use their fat stores.

Does it work the other way? Can 58chevy send a message and then Tfytrbl can reply to it?

Point taken. However, I think the prima facie interpretation of the question is, which extant species has been around the longest and is relatively unchanged. People often say that modern humans have been around for 200,000 years. We descended from animals that were around, say, 300,000 years ago ...

That’s quite a story Chuck! You are a good story teller. I can picture you running around frantically searching for nets!

I read all the text, but was too slow to post, ha.

In the paper, they said there was a 3.5% divergence in mtDNA.

Yeah the paper was basically a checklist of Alberta moths….it was more a book than paper. 549 pages total!

Adam beat me to it, was just about to post the same paper. Anyway, very interesting read.

I have not had a chance to look up the paper elevating ophthalmica to species status. However, in the Hawkmoth book by Tuttle, page 115, he states “Comstock and Dammers (1943b) conclusively established through rearing that ophthalmica is a morph of cerisyi.”

The plot thickens…

If someone buys your car, they get all the individual “sub-car” components. If the seats belong to the car, they now belong to the new owner.

Check out the info on the PNW moths website.

I did the same. I found some yellow printer paper at Staples. Not sure if you have that in the US. Had to buy a whole stack just to use one sheet haha.

Doubt it’s beetles. Finding dead bugs in a garage is common. Even when the alarm isn’t going off, if you look, you will probably find a dead bug here or there.

Oh I know Chuck, not saying this would be easy. I just wanted to put the bug in someone’s ear (no pun intended) in case anyone here is within range of hirsuta. I would do it if I had any specimens or plans to travel to Cali.