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by jhyatt
Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:05 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Cartoon name for new species?
Replies: 5
Views: 141

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
by jhyatt
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:36 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Live butterflies exhibit
Replies: 16
Views: 337

Re: Live butterflies exhibit

Nice... but somehow that sort of exhibit gives me a touch of vertigo when I see Morphos and Caligos flying with P. memnon and the odd Troides!

John
by jhyatt
Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:03 pm
Forum: Field Reports
Topic: Spring Captures
Replies: 6
Views: 279

Re: Spring Captures

Chuck, where did you capture this fabulous pair of Nihilis absentus? LOL. Good one. No, I gave those to Dr. Hyatt during the purge last year. Given that there was snow on the ground yesterday still, I think up this way we can safely keep the nets in the basement for a couple more months. m Chuck, I...
by jhyatt
Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:45 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Light collecting
Replies: 22
Views: 1755

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...
by jhyatt
Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:25 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: The Little Drawer of Horrors
Replies: 5
Views: 860

Re: The Little Drawer of Horrors

very easily just utilize another drawer Do I look like Dr. Hyatt to you? Noooo, sir. I am out of space for drawers. My drawers are full. I have more drawers than I promised myself I'd have. I just counted, I'm 17 drawers past cabinet capacity. Thanks though! (if anyone suggests another cabinet, I'l...
by jhyatt
Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:26 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Net bag color?
Replies: 20
Views: 13057

Re: Net bag color?

I have various net bags in white (ex Bioquip), black (the material was a gift from a collector friend in England), and green. I use white most often, mainly because that's what color is on the net I most often carry. I'm a lot more interested in the openness and softness of the material than the col...
by jhyatt
Thu Jan 18, 2024 2:35 pm
Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
Topic: How the heck to cite parts of a table?
Replies: 7
Views: 19372

Re: How the heck to cite parts of a table?

How do I cite the data within the individual cells without making it illegible? I want the cell to read "40-50mm" not "40-50mm (Hyatt, 1923 and Shuey, 2021)" Chuck, I'll have to admit that I'm older than Shuey, but "Hyatt, 1923"? No wonder my knees were extra creaky th...
by jhyatt
Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:33 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Morpho cypris female form cyanites
Replies: 27
Views: 27736

Re: Morpho cypris female form cyanites

58chevy wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:10 pm You are close to my age. I was born in 1948, on the same day Prince (now King) Charles was born.
So was I. Good year for lepidopterists, I reckon!
jh
by jhyatt
Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:45 pm
Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
Topic: Morpho cypris female form cyanites
Replies: 27
Views: 27736

Re: Morpho cypris female form cyanites

Nice to see it has the abdomen present, too!
by jhyatt
Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:14 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: How Genetic studies reveal new relationships, species
Replies: 26
Views: 12000

Re: How Genetic studies reveal new relationships, species

Thanks Adam. "Smaller difference in COI". Noting the other factors- range, flight period, etc. how the heck then would one determine Sp vs SSP considering COI? If we use 2% as a safe range for species (noting that many are now less than that), what might be the difference for a ssp? Must ...
by jhyatt
Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:07 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
Replies: 14
Views: 6701

Re: Fumigant Lifetime

[quote=Chuck post_id=8523 time=1701093488 user_id=100 It's my suggestion to find a way to freeze drawers, always keep humidity under 50%, and avoid fumigants. This, of course, is not always possible, but for those who do have the space (yes, you do John) a freezer (or second freezer) is the way to g...
by jhyatt
Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:49 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
Replies: 14
Views: 6701

Re: Fumigant Lifetime

A chest freezer can fit drawers vertically, years ago I had one in a lab that could easily fit 6 at once. Pretty cheap to purchase and run. Got one, but it's too full of boxes of papered leps to hold any drawers! jh Haha yes just need the discipline to use the freezer for nothing other than pest ma...
by jhyatt
Sun Nov 26, 2023 2:54 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
Replies: 14
Views: 6701

Re: Fumigant Lifetime

Chris Grinter wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2023 6:07 am A chest freezer can fit drawers vertically, years ago I had one in a lab that could easily fit 6 at once. Pretty cheap to purchase and run.
Got one, but it's too full of boxes of papered leps to hold any drawers!

jh
by jhyatt
Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:12 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
Replies: 14
Views: 6701

Re: Fumigant Lifetime

The other thing to ponder, this stuff is not good for you. It can cause neurological damage. My bug room is pretty small, so I use it as sparingly as possible. John Yep, it's a cholinesterase inhibitor. My bug room is a roughly 60' X 40' open basement, fairly well ventilated, and I don't spend huge...
by jhyatt
Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:07 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
Replies: 14
Views: 6701

Re: Fumigant Lifetime

In some of my drawers I haven’t change them since I started using these in 2015-16. They are pale yellow but so far no pests, I’m not sure if they still do work or I have no pest in my room. Of course the usable lifetime may vary from drawer to drawer, depending on the rate of air exchange inside t...
by jhyatt
Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:53 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
Replies: 14
Views: 6701

Fumigant Lifetime

I use dichlorvos strips ("No-pest strips") in my lep collection. I cut the large yellow slabs one can purchase into roughly 1/2" squares and pin one in each Cornell drawer. This seems to work well - I've had no infestations since I started using this material years and years ago. But ...
by jhyatt
Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:23 pm
Forum: Lepidoptera
Topic: Papilio erskinei
Replies: 7
Views: 3757

Re: Papilio erskinei

Very good post, Chuck! And I do like the use of "Luminaries"... although somehow I still like the older usage of "Virtuosi" for people like Tennent, Cotton, Sperling, et al.

Cheers,
jh
by jhyatt
Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:19 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Damn frogs, toads, lizards too....
Replies: 5
Views: 2547

Re: Damn frogs, toads, lizards too....

I get more varmints in my bait traps than in pheromone or light traps. Hornets certainly can devastate a nice catch!

A friend of mine used to sometimes hang a warning label on his traps with words to the effect: "African Killer Bee Research Trap -- Danger -- Keep Away!'

jh
by jhyatt
Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:36 am
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: Damn frogs, toads, lizards too....
Replies: 5
Views: 2547

Re: Damn frogs, toads, lizards too....

Never had that problem here in the southern Appalachians, but more than once I've left a moth sheet running all night, only to find in the early morning that all the moths were gone from the lower 12-18" of the sheet... and a pile of raccoon poop nearby!
jh
by jhyatt
Mon Oct 30, 2023 5:57 pm
Forum: Open Topics
Topic: What do Hesperidologists dream of?
Replies: 12
Views: 5314

Re: What do Hesperidologists dream of?

I do truly love collecting skippers, but I've never dreamed about them that I can remember. The only butterfly dream I can vividly recall is one of being on a small island, apparently in the New Georgia group, and watching a male O. victoriae rubianus flying out of reach overhead, just above the edg...