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- Fri Sep 29, 2023 12:48 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Shipping dilemma
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1742
Re: Shipping dilemma
I think you are the victim of an inept employee or a liar. Parcels do not have to be sent Priority mail, Not long ago, Mom wanted to "help" me mail a box, I had the postage figured after weighing it, 5 bucks for ground select USPS, the clerk sold my Mom priority shipping and it cost me an ...
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:20 pm
- Forum: Other Insect Orders & Other Invertebrates
- Topic: Largest American Centipede...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4196
Re: Largest American Centipede...
Awesome animals. I went to a reptile show and someone had a giant centipede, it looked a foot long. The asking price was 1k. I've got a
picture of it, but no context.
picture of it, but no context.
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 10:23 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Smerinthus cerisyi variations
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3830
Re: Smerinthus cerisyi variations
I made the post after finding that larva a few days ago, and realized how different my various specimens looked. Having a larva is a big help, as they are not variable and what I have found at home is clearly cerisyi. I did find that the larva is visible under uv light, which gives me something to t...
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Smerinthus cerisyi variations
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3830
Re: Smerinthus cerisyi variations
I wasn't entirely accurate about my sphinx captures at home. Several years ago, I caught a few Hyles lineata nectaring in very early spring, I think one even found it's way into the greenhouse and expired. I've never seen any others since then. Never at the light though. Chuck! That looks like my ph...
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 12:17 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Smerinthus cerisyi variations
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3830
Re: Smerinthus cerisyi variations
Is the variation clinal? I wonder if anyone has looked into the genetics to see if they should be different subspecies? The amount of variability in cerisyi is mentioned in Tuttle's Hawk Moths of North America having caused different forms to be named. He sticks with just the one type. It's easy to...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 11:32 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Smerinthus cerisyi variations
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3830
Smerinthus cerisyi variations
Different variations in the sphinx moth cerisyi. The top 2 are from the eastern part of the state. The bottom one was captured as a larva last season here at my house on the coast. I found the larva depicted a few days ago on the willow ,interesting since I have never had a sphinx come to my uv ligh...
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:44 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Acherontia atropos feeding
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3085
Re: Acherontia atropos feeding
Atropos can be raised to maturity on artificial diet. I have seen pictures of the operation, but haven't tried it myself.
Ova should hatch fairly quickly, maybe 7 days.
You can buy artificial diet easily, typically it's used for Manduca sexta rearing for reptile feeders.
Ova should hatch fairly quickly, maybe 7 days.
You can buy artificial diet easily, typically it's used for Manduca sexta rearing for reptile feeders.
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 11:02 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: mature larva behavior
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2588
Re: mature larva behavior
Aha! So that's it. I did notice an extra large pellet, I may have missed the second one, and it was bigger, at least double in
size. I did wonder about the giant poo, it being the only thing different in the cage.
Thank you for answering.
size. I did wonder about the giant poo, it being the only thing different in the cage.
Thank you for answering.
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 4:59 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: mature larva behavior
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2588
mature larva behavior
Yesterday something happened that I've never seen before. Now, obviously that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. The question- Do all Lepidoptera larva empty their gut before leaving the food plant to burrow in substrate, or spin a cocoon? I had 2 mature larva that left the food plant and wandered the ...
- Thu Aug 31, 2023 12:26 am
- Forum: Insect Photography & Video
- Topic: Citheronia splendens
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3151
Re: Citheronia splendens
4rth instar most likely, I just moved 5 of the 16 larva indoors, to help move things along, it'll be raining again one of these days.
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:08 pm
- Forum: Insect Photography & Video
- Topic: Citheronia splendens
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3151
Citheronia splendens
One of my splendens larva, hatched on July 19, they've been outdoors on sweet gum since then. A lot of shades of brown. Still a few weeks to go most likely, our cooler coastal weather slows down everything I raise outdoors. Interesting larva, the only Saturniidae larva I've raised that exude a liqui...
- Wed Aug 23, 2023 2:38 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Acherontia atropos feeding
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3085
Re: Acherontia atropos feeding
Try asking this question at this website- Actias.de it has more users in the EU, who are going to have more experience with non- natives. Hand feeding is a little stressful for all involved, some species will get used to the process, and may feed themselves from a fake flower or dish. The honeycomb ...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Papilio glaucus
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2505
Re: Papilio glaucus
Thanks for the replies. Here in the west, I'm don't think that Papilio rutulus has the variety of subspecies that glaucus does.
I'll pass along the comments to my sister, the family are vicarious entomologists
I'll pass along the comments to my sister, the family are vicarious entomologists
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:24 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Papilio glaucus
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2505
Papilio glaucus
My sister in North Carolina took this picture. Is the amount of blue on the hind wings normal ? Perhaps it's just the lighting.
I get bug photos from the east now and then, the last one was a katydid riding the windshield...can't you just reach out and grab it
for me?
I get bug photos from the east now and then, the last one was a katydid riding the windshield...can't you just reach out and grab it
for me?
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:05 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Preferred Display at Fairs/Expos etc
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1311
Re: Preferred Display at Fairs/Expos etc
Retail is difficult, I've tried it a couple times, with a store front, and online. The public is fickle and sellers need a variety of inventory as well as some sort of advertising. I do recall selling a number of riker mounts to a neighbor one holiday season, but I probably lost money on the specime...
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Preferred Display at Fairs/Expos etc
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1311
Re: Preferred Display at Fairs/Expos etc
I've tried selling insect displays of various sizes (riker mounts) of different beetle and lep species. Complete waste of time. While my relatives were supportive and always said that I should try and sell my displays at craft fairs and other venues, I never sold a thing. Maybe it's the customer bas...
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:43 pm
- Forum: Insect Art
- Topic: Advertising, is it beetle juice?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4892
Advertising, is it beetle juice?
I found this on Ebay, if I could read French, maybe I'd have known this item is only 7cm x10cm. My worries about finding a frame
are over.
are over.
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: The Porch Light
- Topic: LIVESTOCK IMPORTATION
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11797
Re: LIVESTOCK IMPORTATION
Good luck with it, I've known someone who got the permit, went through the work, and had nothing but problems with the livestock.
Perhaps the individual needed to put more work into the environment, or better sources.
Perhaps the individual needed to put more work into the environment, or better sources.
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 2:34 am
- Forum: The Porch Light
- Topic: LIVESTOCK IMPORTATION
- Replies: 25
- Views: 11797
Re: LIVESTOCK IMPORTATION
Most of us already are aware of the permit system. Some of us just don't the feds crawling around their houses.
- Sun Jul 30, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: The Porch Light
- Topic: paradise by the uv light
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3032
Re: paradise by the uv light
so, that was fun, but I should follow up on the topic. I think it was a gravid female that flew to the light and mated a 2nd time with the male that was also attracted to the uv light. How that happened is anyone's guess. This conclusion because the female laid only about 25 eggs on the second night...