vabrou wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 11:23 pm edited by admin

"BYE"

Extra TV in Costa Rica ran a news report with the headline: ‘Japanese man kills thousands of butterflies’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1cK7I2-280


This video only shows a few hundred specimens of unknown papered (assumed to be) insects. It is not proven that anything shown is actually ...

26-month study of the clearwing moths of Caddo Parish, Louisiana on a tree farm, 27 pages. Several undescribed species were identified. Very detailed information concerning semiochemical lures used over the past half century in louisiana, USA.

freely accessible Link to downloadable pdf: https://www ...

Chuck,

I look at size differences being usually nothing more than what occurs within the various annual broods. E.g. here in Louisiana there are lepidoptera having 13 annual broods and on the opposite end, just one annual brood and every scenario in between. I have documented in print publications ...

jhyatt,

You may remember that in 2011 (13 years ago) I encountered a Forest Ranger that decided to make up his own personal permitting system, unbeknownst to the Forest Service in order to collect insects in the National Forest areas in the state of Louisiana. This is not an uncommon situation ...

Hi Chuck and Trehopr1
Regarding peer review. Yes, I have an opinion about this foolishness. This connotation is not what you assume it to be. Usually the person(s) authoring something are the actual 'experts'. Having peer review by 100 PhD's means absolutely nothing. I have spent most of the past ...

This pictorial illustrates our stationary automatic light trap wooden collecting chambers we designed, fabricated, and operated successively and continuously 365-366 days for each of the past (55 years) 1969 to 2024. We illustrate our successful design with annotated explanations and photographs of ...

Thanks for the list. I have saved it under the file folder named California stupidity. Now the entire world has a list of the insects that collectors can zero in on in that corrupt government and failing state. The only reason for collecting in California are for those species on this foolish list ...

Adam,
33 years ago I published a brief bit of info about paradichlorobenzene, naphthalene, freezing, heat and other methods of pest controls in collections of insects..... Here is a free access web link to that old publication: https://www.academia.edu/30703027/Health_related_information_on ...

benihikage92

I have noted over the 3 decades of the websites digital age that the persons that want to show others what a spiffy job they do in pinning out their specimens with the legs spread wide are most often new to collecting insects. I have only one question for you.

1. What are you going ...

Lamprima2..... You use the phrase 'peer-reviewed publication' as if this means something. I can show you thousands of 'peer-reviewed publications' that are complete crap. 'Peer-review' can be helpful to capture basic things such as spelling and grammar, but even these corrections are few. I always ...

Here in Louisiana we have Catocala carissima which is easily distinguished from C. cara by the apical forewing patches and deeper red color on the hindwings in C carissima. Here is my species account published 16 years ago on C carissima in Louisiana. You can see the differences in male and female ...

Chuck,

The reason I have all these external hard drives is because I create all my images and text on my PC, but do not ever save any on my pc's hardrives. I save the PC's hardrives for operating system files and various softwares. So I learned my lesson early on that PCs die without warning and ...

Digital technologies for image capture and storage began in the late 1980s with the introduction of the first consumer digital cameras, and in 1990 the first version of Adobe Photoshop. I have used 35mm film cameras for over a decade before that. In reality, despite having the best 35mm macro ...

I have no actual proof, but....

Leroy recently came up in a post here. Thought I'd pass on what I was told.

Earlier this spring, was informed that he was placed in an assisted living residence, by his family. The word 'dementia' accompanied that information.

Similarly, the person who began the ...

No, don't want to bring this into my home and affect me, nor keep it as a specimen, as this may infect my storage drawers that I will never be able to get rid of, nor take a chance that this will infect my lifelong collection and lifelong work. A photo will have to do. I leave this to someone else ...