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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 3:03 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: Butterflies of Virginia, Clark & Clark 1951
- Replies: 2
- Views: 56
Re: Butterflies of Virginia, Clark & Clark 1951
I reread my copy every few years, Chuck -- and not just because I live near, and collect in, VA regularly. There's fascinating info in there -- like the fact that they found only one specimen of Pieris virginiensis in Virginia, and it was about 200 feet from the WVA border (it's now dirt common in S...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:05 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Cartoon name for new species?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 166
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
Nice work,
jh
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:36 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Live butterflies exhibit
- Replies: 16
- Views: 346
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
John
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Spring Captures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 280
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...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1761
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...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:25 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: The Little Drawer of Horrors
- Replies: 5
- Views: 862
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...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Net bag color?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13060
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...
- 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
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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...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:33 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Morpho cypris female form cyanites
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27738
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:45 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Morpho cypris female form cyanites
- Replies: 27
- Views: 27738
Re: Morpho cypris female form cyanites
Nice to see it has the abdomen present, too!
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:14 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: How Genetic studies reveal new relationships, species
- Replies: 26
- Views: 12012
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 ...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:07 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6703
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...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 10:49 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6703
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...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6703
Re: Fumigant Lifetime
Got one, but it's too full of boxes of papered leps to hold any drawers!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.
jh
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:12 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6703
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...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 3:07 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6703
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...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 8:53 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Fumigant Lifetime
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6703
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 ...
- 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
Cheers,
jh
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:19 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Damn frogs, toads, lizards too....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2548
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
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
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 2:36 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Damn frogs, toads, lizards too....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2548
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
jh