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- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: butterfly bait trap
- Replies: 11
- Views: 315
Re: butterfly bait trap
Over time the netting material has disintegrated. I am trying to rebuild them and have tried using other netting materials but really liked that stuff better. Does anyone know/ recall what it was made out of? I think he used plastic screen door material in his traps. Very heavy and UV resistant. John
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Global travel collecting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 472
Re: Global travel collecting
More impactful, I left a zip lock bag full of cigars too close to a cabin window once in the Dominican Republic. Someone reached in and swiped 5 of the cigars (leaving about 10 probably thinking I wouldn't notice). In the frigg'in cigar capital of the world! I beg to disagree John. Much as I like D...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: Wanted Butterflies of the World vols 49 and 50
- Replies: 0
- Views: 54
Wanted Butterflies of the World vols 49 and 50
If anyone subscribed - but they hate skippers - let me know! I can buy them new - but I'm hoping for a better price than retail. Butterflies of the World 49 Hesperiidae II. New World Pyrrhopyginae (Text) by Mielke, O.H.H.; Brockmann, E.; Mielke, C.G.C Butterflies of the World 50: Hesperiidae III. Ne...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Global travel collecting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 472
Re: Global travel collecting
Although I've "lost" a kayak and other equipment, it was sneak thieves that saw an opportunity. Ah yes, the opportunistic petty thieves. Overall, I would say that petty theft (particularly from foreigners) has a level of cultural acceptance in many places. Certainly in parts of, or most o...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 1:35 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Global travel collecting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 472
Re: Agrias butterflies
As a follow-up, It's not all that expensive to get to the tropics from the US. If you split the costs with someone, I bet you can do a week for about $1,200 to Central America with good advance planning. I just did a 11 day vacation in Panama for 2 people, for around $3k (including airfare for 2) - ...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Global travel collecting
- Replies: 28
- Views: 472
Re: Agrias butterflies
Hi Tim, It’s been a while and welcome Back. And congratulations!!!! First, I personally can’t imagine just building a collection made up of purchased specimens. Yep – I purchase bugs from places I can’t get to, but I treasure the bugs I’ve caught myself. If I had a couple of thousand bucks to spend ...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Cartoon name for new species?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 283
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: 244
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: 283
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: 1802
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: 9941
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: 13515
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: 9941
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: 13515
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: 385
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: 613
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: 1802
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: 1802
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: 873
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: 10289
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