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by AZ-MOTH-er
Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:29 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: wriggling pupa
Replies: 18
Views: 11483

Re: wriggling pupa

Yep, myths die hard... An article in the 20 March 2023 issue of The New Yorker "After running through its allotment of instars, a caterpillar ceases to be itself and becomes a pupa. It sheds its skin one last time and develops a hardened shell. Inside this shell, its body dissolves. " I al...
by AZ-MOTH-er
Thu Feb 09, 2023 6:30 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Travel in Saudi Arabia
Replies: 9
Views: 1726

Re: Travel in Saudi Arabia

وإن كانت الحشرة ضعيفة فإن الله يكلمك بها

"Feeble though the insect be, Allah speaks from them to thee"
by AZ-MOTH-er
Sat Jan 14, 2023 2:56 am
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Sonoran Blue - Rearing
Replies: 7
Views: 1043

Re: Sonoran Blue - Rearing

That's a stiff penalty for collecting Dudleya:

https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-fe ... aching-law

It looks like the Asian market loves those Dudleyas!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thegua ... ng-dudleya
by AZ-MOTH-er
Tue Jan 10, 2023 10:11 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: wriggling pupa
Replies: 18
Views: 11483

Re: wriggling pupa

Besides the myth that everything in a caterpillar turns to an amorphous mass of goo when it pupates, here are some other absurd 'facts' that have been disproved and need to die: Humans only use 10% of our brain capacity We need to drink a gallon of water per day Porcupines throw their quills Coffee ...
by AZ-MOTH-er
Mon Jan 09, 2023 8:44 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Rare Oak Species Found
Replies: 10
Views: 3441

Re: Rare Oak Species Found

Nomihoudai, I will have to disagree on the heat in southwestern North America limiting the diversity or occurrence of lycaenids. But for someone who lived in Texas, I can understand how you might get this idea. The key is that Arizona and New Mexico, for instance, are very mountainous. And not just ...
by AZ-MOTH-er
Mon Jan 09, 2023 12:04 am
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Rare Oak Species Found
Replies: 10
Views: 3441

Re: Rare Oak Species Found

The COUNTY that I live in has a land area larger than Melania Trump's home country, Slovenia. May I ask, Nomihoudai, what your home country is now? At times, I have seen leaf mines in oak leaves from Sonora. It is possible these leaf miners are dipterans rather than lepidopterans, however. And many ...
by AZ-MOTH-er
Sun Jan 08, 2023 8:32 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Rare Oak Species Found
Replies: 10
Views: 3441

Re: Rare Oak Species Found

I realize that most of the following information is probably of no interest whatsoever to anyone on insectnet.com, so I'll cover the last comment by Nomihoudai first. The "wah-wah trombones" is a sound effect that has been used in films, radio and television programs for about 70 years in ...
by AZ-MOTH-er
Sun Jan 08, 2023 2:49 am
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: How do you find people to trade insect specimens with?
Replies: 23
Views: 2542

Re: How do you find people to trade insect specimens with?

Yes, I long for those days when exchanging insects was the typical situation and people didn't do all that buying and selling. How icky. It's like the good ole days when people actually grew their own food and bartered for items they didn't have. No one asked for money for one's daily bread. Times w...
by AZ-MOTH-er
Sat Jan 07, 2023 11:03 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Rare Oak Species Found
Replies: 10
Views: 3441

Re: Rare Oak Species Found

Yeah, I know, I know...what a killjoy I am Having worked as a botanist for 17 years specializing in woody trees and shrubs, particularly Quercus in NW Mexico, I read with great interest the article about the rediscovery of Quercus tardifolia. There are two problems with this finding... 1. Quercus is...
by AZ-MOTH-er
Sat Jan 07, 2023 6:05 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: The Collapse of Insects
Replies: 15
Views: 1398

Re: The Collapse of Insects

Without any doubt whatsoever, islands have been disproportionally affected by human activities and therefore are the sites of many of the most notable extinctions of history. I must note that many of the current models for developing (planet -wide) extinction rates use island biogeographic theory an...
by AZ-MOTH-er
Sat Jan 07, 2023 4:24 am
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: The Collapse of Insects
Replies: 15
Views: 1398

Re: The Collapse of Insects

An excerpt from the Smithsonian article in the link posted by "livingplanet3" "The most extreme predictions surrounding insects’ decline tend to be highly exaggerated: A study published earlier this year, for example, posited that 41 percent of insect species are declining and global ...