Chris Grinter wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 4:43 pm Must have been covered in rotting flesh or mud before you cleaned it off.

Interesting. Thanks Chris and Bob.

The best place to start is read the most current version of Federal Code of Regulations on wildlife import. It was too much hassle to legally import, so I quit my license about a decade ago and no longer import. Don't know about the broker, that would be new, or it could be just rumor, check FCR. I ...

Hard to say; could be just worn that way, or could be the Insufficient Scale Quotient form.

Hi Chuck, I think you're on the level - this appears to be a specimen of Nicrophorus tomentosus , which has dense yellowish pubescence on the pronotum - the only species in the U.S. with a hairy pronotum... No fakery here! Cheers! Bandrow But it was black! or dark brown. And it's not the pubescence...

I accidentally made a fake color morph.



This nicrophorus was near my MV and I didn't feel like bagging it, so I tossed it into the pan of soapy water under the MV. The next morning the protonum had turned white, and still is.

I always assumed the below to be a deformity, not a gynandromorph.

01july23: drove around the Lake Ontario shore in Ontario County; looked at patches of blooming milkweed. Zero sighted. 02, 03 july23: pouring rain. 05july 23: partly cloudy, 28 in morning, 31 in afternoon.... Went to Ithaca to the place where one year and three days ago the Tigers were everywhere on...

I find that the butterfly is a low flyer, not a canopy species, and have netted them on the wing a few times. That is my experience as well. Nor are they particularly attentive, and they like to fly down trails, making them an easy capture. In FL, they are common on coastal trails, along with mayna...

"I am still feeling bullied & intimidated & am scared to place any comments on here because of the fear my statements will be shot down." I haven't done anything wrong First, go back and read what you wrote about / to Vernon and check that second statement again. Do you really thi...

30June2023
25C mostly cloudy; sun totally blocked out by smoke from the Canadian fires

Nothing. Went south 30 minutes to a place I spotted last year with stands of milkweed, but the milkweed was 1% blooming. Saw no Tigers.

Please Vernon & Chuck, it is not necessary that you both work yourself into a wild frenzy (haha... what hyperbole!) and prove something I said was wrong. If you don't like something I said, ignore it and move on. But, it seems you are also unable to control your actions. Lets see........ V.B &a...

If you have a friend or two to go along with then you sit around telling old collecting stories or talk about people or places that you have been. But, most of all you HAVE FUN ! the apparent SCIENCE involved in simple night collecting SURE DOES take all the "fun" factor out of this threa...

LED lights are practically useless for insect collecting compared to MV. I used to regularly collect at gas stations and other MV-lighted buildings, but when they switched to LED the number of bugs dropped dramatically. LED will attract a few bugs, but not enough to justify the cost of driving arou...

...has been beaten to death above. .... perhaps our resident expert can enlighten us further? Hmmm... interesting advice, BUT, our local expert, is how does he expect without fruitless, time wasting searches looking for spectral distribution curves. if so I'm pretty sure I will be swiftly corrected...

eurytides wrote: ↑Thu Jun 29, 2023 11:07 pm I am in New Brunswick right now. Peak canadensis season it would seem. Saw several driving today and even hit one. None captured. No ova located. The hunt continues.

I'm so envious! I'd love to see that area some day.

MV bulbs were the standard for bright, outdoor lighting for decades. They were not made for insect collectors, we were simply the fortunate users, a very tiny niche. It's no secret that decades ago the infrastructure lighting people turned to MH then LED, resulting in a near cessation (if not total ...

27/28 June: rain 29 June 2023: partly sunny 23C but hazy with Canadian forest fire smoke Spotted two, none captured. One was flying down the trail toward me as I assembled my net. The other briefly flitted into the field and back into the forest. Milkweed is flowering, but few butterflies around. So...

Look, I'm the one that questioned the socket so no newbie would buy it and think they stick it in the porch light. My bad. John, you clarified it as a Mogul base. I'm not offended, I appreciate it. Vernon cited what we call as red flags: * Purportedly from manufacturer not known to make bulbs * &quo...

It is not a hybrid. It is an artificially made aberration of P. maackii . Some aberrations are made by putting newly formed pupae in the fridge for some time. I also heard you can make spectacular aberrations by injecting a certain kind of chemical in pupae. I don't know how this particular specime...

Time is better spent investigating and reporting than personal attacks. Astrodyne makes RF and EMI filters. Perhaps they did rebrand MV bulbs for some contract; perhaps these were overstock, or flawed. Time might be better spent contacting Astrodyne to find out the story on these. As far as generic ...