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by nomihoudai
Fri Dec 08, 2023 8:08 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Citations of publications?
Replies: 7
Views: 5008

Re: Citations of publications?

I think my second paragraph and the suggestion to Mendeley helps you best with your problem. Mendeley creates the citation information from a PDF or can find it by a paper's DOI (all the popular papers come with a DOI, a digital object identifier). When it finds nothing you have a form field where y...
by nomihoudai
Fri Dec 08, 2023 7:55 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Citations of publications?
Replies: 7
Views: 5008

Re: Citations of publications?

Hello Chuck. People don't format these by hand. You create an intermediate file in BibTex format. After this you configure your text editor to use the BibTex file to reference the citation and you set your citation format there. Check for "How to insert a citation in Microsoft Word using BibTeX...
by nomihoudai
Tue Mar 07, 2023 8:43 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Resourceful Entomology
Replies: 3
Views: 763

Re: Resourceful Entomology

Thank you so much for sharing this here. The instructions are really good and helpful for learning everything necessary to make a drawer.
by nomihoudai
Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:16 pm
Forum: Other Insect Orders & Other Invertebrates
Topic: Crawfish
Replies: 4
Views: 1824

Re: Crawfish

Interesting thoughts. I too enjoy crawfish and they are one of my best memories from Texas. Every crawfish season I would make sure to get some to eat. From all the names they have I use mudbug the most often as I like that name. With the rains and floods in spring they would come out and cover fiel...
by nomihoudai
Wed Mar 01, 2023 9:11 pm
Forum: Coleoptera
Topic: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance
Replies: 65
Views: 13247

Re: Cerambycidae of "weird " appearance

Are these Sternotomis cornutor from Comoros Islands?
by nomihoudai
Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:39 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: wriggling pupa
Replies: 18
Views: 11489

Re: wriggling pupa

Here is a link to an article with pictures on phys.org, a science news platform: https://phys.org/news/2013-05-ct-scanne ... ysalis.amp

At the bottom you can find the reference to the actual scientific publication.
by nomihoudai
Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:35 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Rare Oak Species Found
Replies: 10
Views: 3442

Re: Rare Oak Species Found

I am from Luxembourg, and nowadays I work for a Dutch company. I also think that the sclerophylly of the Southern oaks is hampering leaf miners. Combined with the hot weather. I always thought that the weather was too hot and dry to keep something as thin and small as a Lycaenid going, completely se...
by nomihoudai
Sun Jan 08, 2023 11:09 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Rare Oak Species Found
Replies: 10
Views: 3442

Re: Rare Oak Species Found

Thank you for explaining. I would say that plants and botany are of interest to people on insectnet. After all insects feed on plants and are very specific in what they need. The best entomologists I have met have had incredible field knowledge in plants. I had been to Chisos Mountains. I didn't go ...
by nomihoudai
Sun Jan 08, 2023 6:35 pm
Forum: The Porch Light
Topic: Rare Oak Species Found
Replies: 10
Views: 3442

Re: Rare Oak Species Found

1. Quercus is known as being promiscuous... ...The field people who found this plant must be aware of this. Yes they are. At the end of the article they mention that they want to find out what the true status of this tree is. 2. That location where the tardifolia was found is Big Bend National Park...
by nomihoudai
Fri Jan 06, 2023 12:30 pm
Forum: Legal issues
Topic: Rubbish "science" is misleading
Replies: 18
Views: 5567

Re: Rubbish "science" is misleading

Thank you John for explaining the background details and showing that Chuck's criticism can't be left to stand on its own. It becomes more and more frequent that people of various (or nonexistent) educational backgrounds criticize parts of science or science as a whole. In science you are left to re...
by nomihoudai
Mon Nov 21, 2022 3:29 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: How to perfectly relax butterflies : the vodka method
Replies: 39
Views: 4043

Re: How to perfectly relax butterflies : the vodka method

In the very beginning I used alcohol based window cleaner. I assume it's a similar mixture to Vodka. Unfortunately, specimen will get a bit of a smell from the window cleaner.
by nomihoudai
Thu Nov 10, 2022 9:56 am
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Finally met one of my mentors!
Replies: 8
Views: 1063

Re: Finally met one of my mentors!

It's great meeting people in person. In 2014 I think I had attended a seminar at UF Gainesville where Charlie Covell was present. In any case the seminar was started by Thomas Emmel who I met and talked to. They dedicated a research room at Butterfly World in Coconut Creek, FL to Thomas Emmel after ...
by nomihoudai
Thu Nov 10, 2022 9:50 am
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Cheirotonus
Replies: 14
Views: 1030

Re: Cheirotonus

Cheirotonus is one of the beetle genera that also interest me as a non beetle person.
by nomihoudai
Thu Nov 10, 2022 9:49 am
Forum: Field Reports
Topic: Papilio anchisiades
Replies: 6
Views: 2568

Re: Papilio anchisiades

Was the cold winter the winter of 2020-21? I was in Florida at that time and a cold spell came in and killed off the Bismarckias (Bismarckia nobilis). Later we had the Blizzard in Texas and we had lost power. I had seen H. charitonia in Houston (2015) I think, and I have seen it a few times in Flori...
by nomihoudai
Thu Nov 10, 2022 9:42 am
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Nokomis Fritillary (Speyeria nokomis)
Replies: 3
Views: 499

Re: Nokomis Fritillary (Speyeria nokomis)

Speyeria are nice. In Summer, I do enjoy looking after Speyeria aglaja. The only current member of genus Speyeria in Europe.
by nomihoudai
Thu Nov 10, 2022 8:30 am
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Cercyonis pegala
Replies: 17
Views: 1633

Re: Cercyonis pegala

There is different subspecies, a lot of them without the beautiful yellow! I knew about this species before my first travel to the US as people sometimes mention it, but not about the color variations. I guess it is not that well collected as most Satyrinae, but it does show up in conversations ever...
by nomihoudai
Fri Nov 04, 2022 11:38 am
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Papilio saharae.
Replies: 8
Views: 916

Re: Papilio saharae.

Does Tunisia have machaon or saharae? I have mounted Papilios from Tunisia for a museum many years ago, but I don't know if it was saharae or machaon. Of course those will be a lot easier to come by than these from Yemen.
by nomihoudai
Fri Nov 04, 2022 11:36 am
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Eumorpha typhon & Citheronia splendens
Replies: 7
Views: 847

Re: Eumorpha typhon & Citheronia splendens

Do you have a picture of E. typhon next to E. achemon? Eumorpha is an amazing genus with really beautiful species.
by nomihoudai
Tue Oct 25, 2022 10:00 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Sonoran Blue - Rearing
Replies: 7
Views: 1046

Re: Sonoran Blue - Rearing

Hi Seth, great to hear that you enjoyed the video and that it inspired you to get out in the field! My first name is Claude and I am the person in the video. The video was taken by Clark, who is the founder and the previous owner of insectnet.com. I have been a regular poster since 2009 and I have m...
by nomihoudai
Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:39 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Breeding: Gonepteryx rhamni
Replies: 4
Views: 402

Re: Breeding: Gonepteryx rhamni

I don't know what the initial text was, but Gonepteryx rhamni is one of the longest living species of butterflies in Europe. The specimen that hatch in summer do not lay eggs but will go into hibernation. When the weather is cold it can happen that a specimen that hibernated survives until June and ...