Newly released, the first publication to specifically address the known species of Fulgoridae (sensu stricto) for the state of Louisiana.

Freely accessible link:
https://www.academia.edu/117030842/Fulg ... _Louisiana

I can safely proclaim that 'virtually everyone' is guilty of using 'absolutes'. People write in the same mannerisms they do when speaking. I am certainly guilty of doing these things, though I am aware of the prevalence of this affliction and when writing make an attempt to eliminate doing this. I c...

Chuck, I direct you to view our 30-year sphingids of Louisiana study. We published the results from the first 26 years about 27 years ago (1997). Later we followed up with captures taken in four additional years completing 30 total years which covered the years (1970-1999) in which we reported perso...

I was asked what does the inside of the collection chamber look like. Here is a photo from my files where lid is removed after 24 hours of collecting. Specimens on tray allows for quick visual selection and removal from trap. Those specimens not selected are dumped from tray. If dumped insects nearb...

FYI---- Every aspect (components and numbers of components and sizes of the components) of my trap designs have important and necessary purposes for handling, operating and the best performance results. Due to the fact that I worked as a Quality Assurance/Quality control Engineer most of my early li...

papilio7119 click on forum archives and search for 'bait traps'. Since you are new, you will find numerous pages filled with information concerning bait traps. Many if not all links listed among those old postings do not link to anything. You may learn something there. Here are 57 freely accessible ...

Why don't you design and fabricate your own traps. Here are two publications i published over the past half century. Regarding the small holes created by wasps, hornets, etc. in live capture versions of traps. In these butterfly captures must be removed daily. I have found these holes very beneficia...

FYI -- Answers to all of the questions asked about insects and attraction to all wavelengths of the light spectrum from X-rays to infrared bands is available to anyone on the world wide web, and if one searches for it, it is all free. If you are one of the fools who pay one of these pay-for-access ...

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I have fabricated these wooden glass top drawers for over a half century. Link to freely accessible detailed instructions to make high quality drawers: https://www.academia.edu/30703260/Do_it_yourself_Cornell_size_specimen_drawers Key to fabricating high quality drawers is using high quality wood. ...

Here in SE Louisiana, USA this is a very common species. Most specimens were collected using ultraviolet light traps, the remainder utilizing fermenting bait traps, flight traps, and netting by hand. I have personally captured several thousand wild adults, the majority in automatic-capture mercury ...

I have used the same procedure for degreasing for nearly a half century. Nearly all coleoptera, in varying percentages become greasy, The dust attaches to beetles because of the grease, which may or may not be visible to the naked eye. I use this same method for most all moths, even delicate small c...

My species account on the tiny clearwing moth Synanthedon sapygaeformis newly reported to occur in the state of Louisiana, USA. Link to 9-page pdf https://independent.academia.edu/VernonAntoineBrouJr This article appeared in print December 29-2023. I have made a special effort to capture clearwing ...

[ i] "People don't format these by hand." [/i] I have been creating references ' only by hand' for the past 55 years. Like everything one learns during your life, once you do something a number of times, it is no big deal and one can spit these out as fast as one can type. Once you let sof...

I have been shipping hundreds of thousands of pinned spread lepidoptera to countries across the world for the past 60 years. Each type and size of insect requires a different approach. Goal is to use your absolute best effort which usually turns out to be the most costly. Tiny, medium and large heav...

Hi Box, Seems your problem is what anyone collecting and processing microlepidoptera deals with daily. Around 10 years ago I published a brief two pages on this subject including images and how to solve the problem you are having. Your methods of handling captured specimens needs to be fine tuned. ...

John, besides the frogs and lizards, here over the past half century I have battled many animals eating my captured specimens: deer, armadillos, possums, coons, foxes, skunks, weasels, blue lake crabs, fiddler crabs, crayfish, birds (even hummingbirds), cats, dogs, cattle, bobcats, squirrels, flyin...

Always a battle with the reptiles and amphibians at my clearwing moth traps. Relocating them is an exercise in futility. They return the next day on the same traps or on neighboring traps. The ones that fall in do me a favor; they won't be eating any more moths. All photos here at my home in Louisi...

Only one species in Louisiana, Hemileuca maia. Have taken several thousand over the past half century in my high-wattage light traps. Here are 60 taken December 6, usual annual peak of the one annual brood for this species. Most collectors collect this species mid-day using a hand net as it is both...