Another U.S. based Collapsible Net Supplier:



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Trehopr1, Congrats on doing such a nice mounting job on what are relatively (at least up here in Sask.!) small insects. I really like the larger ones with the dark mottled patterning on the wings as you have displayed. I would try, only on fresh specimens, (good luck... :roll: ) to tease out the lon...

For many years I used small 12" dia. white or pale yellow nets (from BioQuip) until I went to Costa Rica back many years ago. For that trip I purchased BioQuip's 18" dia. Tropic net with long extensions. I have never looked back at the tiny 12" nets... 18" nets are the way to go ...

WoW! Wow! Wow!....Beautiful photos of gorgeous beetles. Thank you for posting... I always look forward (as do other members, I'm sure!) in seeing your wonderful photos.

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58 Chevy, Many Thanks for sending along the article... very much appreciated!

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Totally off topic, but really fascinating... on the industry of fancy Koi (a sp. of carp) breeding in Japan.



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Many good videos on YouTube... certainly on my bucket list!.. a truly exquisite butterfly!





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Try Googling "Red Velvet Mite". Lots of info online.... No danger to humans.

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Yet another "The Wild Files" short video on an uncommon topic:



Check out this "Wild Files" channel for more interesting/entertaining & sometimes funny videos...

https://www.youtube.com/@thewildfilesofficial

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Yet another short, educational video from "The Wild Files":



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Another interesting short video from "The Wild Files"... is everything really bigger in Texas?



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An Interesting short video on what is supposedly (can anyone else confirm?) the largest Robber Fly in America:



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Chuck says "Notably, both appalachiensis and canadensis have a rare dark female form". I would love to see a photo, more info, etc. on a dark fm female canadensis... that would be a real rarity IMHO.

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Checkout Peacockspiderman's U-Tube channel on the very entertaining, absolutely gorgeous, & amazing little Peacock Spiders. These videos on the mating displays/habits of these tiny jumping spiders are really eye opening... & often times... downright funny! Gotta love some of NATURE'S smalles...

Hi Jshuey, Excellent point on destroying DNA with supplemental heat, which many of us may not have even considered. I've never liked the idea of cooking bugs in an oven... except, perhaps, in rare instances, in very humid jungles... to prevent rot/pest infestation of larger bodied specimens. John K.

Hi Panacanthus, Beautiful specimens nicely spread. I have for years, sexed a lot of moths, in questionable cases, by examining the frenulum; moths usually (not always) have a frenulum, which is a wing-coupling device that joins together the forewing and hindwing. Look at the base of the wings on the...

And another Japanese U-Tuber with lots of interesting "bug" videos:

https://www.youtube.com/@mushitori_channel

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Daiki Musihioka & friends- a very enthusiastic, young, Japanese U-Tuber with dozens of interesting longer videos centered around insects in & around all the Japanese islands, etc., etc.. Narration is in Japanese (with English common & scientific names for many of his discoveries); he has...

Re: Glassine Envelopes, I can't figure out why glassine envelopes sold in N. Am. are so terribly expensive? To get a 1,000 count of #1 envelopes costs around a hundred bucks up here in Canada & in the U.S.A, even more, with the poor exchange rate. I went online & found very similar (identica...

Here is an old photo, posted in Clark's insectnet.com, of the only gynandromorph I have ever collected: Bilateral Gyn. of G.S. Fritillary.jpg This was collected in late July 1992... a year prior, in 1991, the volcano Mt. Pinatubo, in the Philippines blew it's top spewing ash high up into the atmosph...