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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Cartoon name for new species?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 147
Re: Cartoon name for new species?
Are the new one and spatulata sympatric? No difference at all in wing morphology? Seems like a pretty subtle difference to hang a new name on... wonder what DNA analysis might show? That'd at least be a 2nd character to consider. Nice work, jh Yes, the potential new one is sympatric with both spatu...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: LepSoc meeting @Cornell 14-18 July who's going?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 125
Re: LepSoc meeting @Cornell 14-18 July who's going?
I am not, at this time, pondering attendance.
John
John
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Cartoon name for new species?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 147
Cartoon name for new species?
I have a bug that I'm about 90% sure is a new one. It's in a genus (Aguna - Hesperiidae) where adults are mostly indistinguishable from one another, until of course, you dissect them. Well, I've dissected about 70 of them recently, and have stumbled on three definite new species, plus this one. Turn...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1759
Re: Light collecting
I can - and it's not very convincing either good or bad. First - Panama is in a serous drought. We were there for 11 days - and it misted for a couple of hours on one of those days. Lots of trees had no leaves. There we not many insects around. Almost no mosquitos! Butterfly-wise, mostly common spec...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9715
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Not the first time USFWS has seized something and screwed the pooch. They grabbed a bunch of rare turtles some guy was breeding, and they all died. Makes you wonder. About that time of the National Parks, and I think it was specifically THAT time, there was something about Parnassius that USFWS wer...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Net bag color?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13059
Re: Net bag color?
Great, all the new bags I bought are black. The "good" news is that it didn't matter on my last trip, since 10 days in FL I never had cause to take the net out. I think black nets work for many people. I focus on little brown and black bugs, and I rarely pinch a bug because I invariably d...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:51 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9715
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Are they allowed to seize his whole collection, or only those specimens which were illegally imported? Adam. So, back in the days when those guys were poaching from US national parks and stuff, there was another less known case involving John Kemner and his commercial collecting in Mexico. In that ...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Net bag color?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13059
Re: Net bag color?
By the way, I was just in the field where I found out that my open-weave white bag was in pretty bad shape. I used it for w few days, and then switched to a spare I brought along - BioQuip's black, very fine mesh, blunt ended net - pretty much identical to the bag in the video above. It sucked. The ...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:01 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: Kawahara Smithsonian Article
- Replies: 2
- Views: 292
Re: Kawahara Smithsonian Article
Akito was in high school when he started attending lep soc meetings. He was really interested in snout butterflies back then. He has expanded his horizons to say the least - and is the most impressive person that the McGuire Center has on staff.
John
John
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: New N. American Butterflies
- Replies: 3
- Views: 512
Re: New N. American Butterflies
In theory, these James Scott Names are captured on the BOA website - at least the names that they consider to be valid. If you didn't know, James Scott passed away recently. Scott was a complex mixture of genius and mildly crazy. He was seeing cryptic species long before DNA started showing us that ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1759
Re: Light collecting
I'll tell you what - I'm headed to Panama with a Lepi-LED next week. I got it for evening entertainment mostly (since all I really care about are Hesperiidae). I'll run it for sure, and let you know how it works. John John, Please let us know whether the dry conditions in Panama seem to have limite...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1759
Re: Light collecting
I'll tell you what - I'm headed to Panama with a Lepi-LED next week. I got it for evening entertainment mostly (since all I really care about are Hesperiidae). I'll run it for sure, and let you know how it works.
John
John
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Insect collection cleaning
- Replies: 6
- Views: 857
Re: Insect collection cleaning
A friend who collects "dirty" beetles (like Histerids) uses an ultrasonic water bath. These are generally used to clean jewelry and not that expensive to buy. These beetles come caked with mud, fungal spores, and general dirt. The ultrasonic cleaning removed this dust completely, while lea...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9984
Re: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
Yes - it's Todd Stout who is doing this. He has been very aggressive about getting kids in Utah out with a net in their hands as part of the Lep Soc's "OuterNet" program. I think he started making them because he needed them for the new kids he tries to get excited about collecting.
John
John
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 2:24 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Net bag color?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13059
Re: Net bag color?
I use the open-weave white bags that BioQuip sold. Two reasons - First, I can easily see what I've got in the net, and second, the open weave means less drag and faster swings. Note that I use the flexible spring steel net rims (aka national park special), and less drags helps keep the rim from bend...
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 1:38 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: How the heck to cite parts of a table?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 19373
Re: How the heck to cite parts of a table?
(Table adapted from data provided in Smith 1999 and and Jones 2000). I would put this in the table legend as the last statement.
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:49 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: USA Insect Drawers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19291
USA Insect Drawers
The guys that made drawers for BioQuip have started their own business - at https://pinitentomology.com/
John
John
- Tue Jan 16, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 9984
Re: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
https://store.raisingbutterflies.org/ca ... s/1853.htm - is a direct copy of the BioQuip net rim.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: Research position in Costa Rica!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6439
Re: Research position in Costa Rica!
Well, there is a glut of graduates with ecological backgrounds that want to become " tree huggers " (work with wildlife, habitats, endangered species and so on). Conservation biology is a hot topic. Then you have all the botany, zoology, wildlife management, forestry and environmental scie...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: Research position in Costa Rica!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6439
Re: Research position in Costa Rica!
This is a "typical" research position looking to hire recent collage grads that are hoping to get real experience. Basically - room and board are free - so the $500 a month is "spending money". Getting a solid job in conservation and ecology is a brutal task lately. So, we now ha...