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.
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- Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Spring Captures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 455
Re: Spring Captures
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Spring Captures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 455
Re: Spring Captures
very nice, and how fortunate.
Here's a photo of my spring 2024 captures:
Impressed?
Here's a photo of my spring 2024 captures:
Impressed?
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:36 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10394
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
This topic has brought a question to my mind. Do people really make a living selling insects? I've tried it years ago, when the internet was young. It seems like a difficult market. Perhaps it's the suppliers, but in any event, how many buyers are out there that continue to purchase material? I fin...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10394
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Agreed Chuck, clearly Charles knew what he was doing, continuing to receive material, he was still operating his business up until not long ago. He was gruffy and perhaps conceited, tempting fate with the feds is not my idea of sound strategy. Looks like Charles is still in business. There is a Dr....
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10394
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
That's unfortunate for Dr. Limmer. I am sorry for him. Yes, he circumvented the rules. Nevertheless, I have sympathy, not everyone will, like I told my defense attorney one time- "someone's got to do it" . If there is a market, there will be suppliers, I have limmerleps butterflies- I fee...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Net bag color?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13837
Re: Net bag color?
Great, all the new bags I bought are black. The "good" news is that it didn't matter on my last trip, since 10 days in FL I never had cause to take the net out. By the way, I was just in the field where I found out that my open-weave white bag was in pretty bad shape. I used it for w few d...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10394
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
When the federal government agencies plan to search a home for evidence to arrest someone they have to get a warrant from a judge (this is about as hard as buying a hotdog at a hotdog vendor.) In the warrant application they have to cite where they want search and what they're searching for (and wil...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 10394
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Update - https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/long-island-insect-collector-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-rare-birdwing-butterflies/5177683/. $30k penalty plus incarceration TBD. And surrender of his collection which I'm sure is more than "1,000 specimens". Look like they've...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Agapema homogena
- Replies: 6
- Views: 803
Re: Agapema homogena
I have a female from Pima Co. AZ and a male from Colorado. Don't know why I have them.
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Net bag color?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13837
Re: Net bag color?
Not really another, same guy I got my from, Todd Stout viewtopic.php?p=9038#p9038
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Books, Publications and Media Reviews
- Topic: To and fro in the archipelago: Repeated inter-island dispersal and New Guinea’s orogeny affect diversification of Delias
- Replies: 3
- Views: 374
Re: To and fro in the archipelago: Repeated inter-island dispersal and New Guinea’s orogeny affect diversification of De
Back in town and downloaded for reading! Thanks!
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Other Insect Orders & Other Invertebrates
- Topic: Please ID this large orthoptera
- Replies: 2
- Views: 665
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Other Insect Orders & Other Invertebrates
- Topic: Please ID this large orthoptera
- Replies: 2
- Views: 665
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2098
Re: Light collecting
Come on, I've dragged a Honda 350W generator around the world. Twice.
"Vacation with my wife" well presuming you've been married a while, she knows what to expect. We are most fortunate to have found wives that put up with our peculiar fascinations.
Eagerly awaiting LepiLED report....
"Vacation with my wife" well presuming you've been married a while, she knows what to expect. We are most fortunate to have found wives that put up with our peculiar fascinations.
Eagerly awaiting LepiLED report....
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: Diptera
- Topic: Beeflies !
- Replies: 4
- Views: 933
Re: Beeflies !
It came up at Cornell that if a hoverfly / beefly is facing you, stick out your finger toward it (horizontal) and then make a circle, and the hoverfly will come to you. The entomologists there said it really does work.
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2098
Re: Light collecting
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44785-3 Contrary to the expectation of attraction, insects do not steer directly toward the light. Instead, insects turn their dorsum toward the light, I cannot be alone in not having thought insects shot straight for the light. Anyone who collects at nigh...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2098
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 YES! Can't wait for a real report. Are you also taking traditional UV or MV? Good...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:09 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1905
Re: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
Up north here the first "hard" frost we get pretty much knocks out 90%+ of adult butterflies. Frosts are worse than snow because the cold settles to the ground. Snow has an R value approximately equal to wood; 20cm of snow has the same R value as most homes built with 2x4s and stuffed wit...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: The search for "wild" silkmoth cocoons
- Replies: 4
- Views: 972
Re: The search for "wild" silkmoth cocoons
After they "sprayed" for Gypsy Moths a few years ago the Saturnids have virtually disappeared. The same people demanding "spongy moth" sprayings (to boost property values) are those who scream bloody murder at the thought of collecting... :roll: I'd have to say you're correct. T...
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1905
Re: Even common species can offer subtle surprises
-- oh' my are you lucky to see butterflies so early ! C. euytheme ... I wonder though - are these freshly emerged from pupae, in response to suddenly warmer conditions, or do some late-season adults just go into torpor when colder weather arrives, only flying on warm days during the winter, I can't...