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- Wed Oct 25, 2023 3:07 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Caterpillar prolegs
- Replies: 0
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- Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:31 am
- Forum: The Porch Light
- Topic: obscured by clouds
- Replies: 4
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Re: obscured by clouds
I watched it from a ranch in south TX that was in the path of totality. The "ring of fire" was awesome. We plugged an iPhone into a 6" reflector telescope and got some great sequential pictures. The phone isn't mine, so I can't show the pictures until the photographer sends them to me.
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 12:44 am
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: The future of the hobby
- Replies: 21
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Re: The future of the hobby
Collectors like us should do more to encourage youngsters to become interested in our disappearing hobby. I got started at age 8 (I'll be 75 soon) because my uncle, with the help of my grandfather, made an insect collection for the 4-H Club. I always admired it and decided to start my own collection...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 3:27 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Every year I say I'm going to AZ "next year"
- Replies: 19
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Re: Every year I say I'm going to AZ "next year"
There are lots of houses for rent in the Tucson area, which is convenient to most of the major collecting spots. Many people live there during the winter and rent their houses out for the summer. I was lucky in 2019 to find one that was owned by the girlfriend of a friend. 3 of us collectors stayed ...
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 4:43 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: 53 feet (16 meters) above ground
- Replies: 9
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Re: 53 feet (16 meters) above ground
Call the Guinness Book of World Records!
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:50 am
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Biggest Tiger Beetle in America?
- Replies: 1
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Re: Biggest Tiger Beetle in America?
Actually the Great Plains tiger beetle (Amblycheila cylindriformis) is not the biggest tiger beetle in N. America. A. hoversoni, native to south TX, is slightly bigger and is the largest tiger beetle in the Western Hemisphere. As the saying goes, "Everything is bigger in Texas". Here's one...
- Wed Sep 20, 2023 10:19 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (P. glaucus) (dark phase/form)
- Replies: 13
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Re: Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (P. glaucus) (dark phase/form)
Here are a couple of female glaucus from the TX gulf coast. They are both very large. I assume they are not maynardi because they are not from Florida, but they closely resemble my maynardi specimens in size and appearance. I too would like to see a genetic comparison between glaucus & maynardi.
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Hemileuca sp. (Buck Moths)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5132
Re: Hemileuca sp. (Buck Moths)
Nice drawer, Evra. Did you rear your specimens from eggs, larvae or pupae?
- Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:23 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Odds & Ends
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13991
Re: Odds & Ends
Excellent displays, Trehopr. I was hoping people would respond with drawers like that.
- Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:21 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Odds & Ends
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13991
Odds & Ends
Sometimes drawers containing multiple families of insects rather than a single family or species can be interesting. Here are a few of mine. Let's see yours.
- Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:51 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Eumaeus godartii
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2650
Re: Eumaeus godartii
Very impressive, Dave!
Here's E. atala (male, upperside) for comparison:
Here's E. atala (male, upperside) for comparison:
- Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:18 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Smerinthus cerisyi variations
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3779
Re: Smerinthus cerisyi variations
Nice specimens, nice genus. Thanks for posting.
- Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:17 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Two Saturnia of eastern Europe
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2357
Re: Two Saturnia of eastern Europe
Very nice moths, Trehopr. I like the genus Saturnia also. Pictured below is Saturnia mendocino from California and a pair of Agapema homogena from Colorado, which look very similar to Saturnia species.
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 6:22 pm
- Forum: Insect Photography & Video
- Topic: Citheronia splendens
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3037
Re: Citheronia splendens
The moth sheet photo was taken July 18, 2000. I've been to SE AZ on 3 occasions (latest 2019) and my sheets typically looked like this. Timing is very important. Usually the best time is about 2 weeks after the monsoon rains begin in late July. Keep in touch with locals before you go.
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 3:50 pm
- Forum: Insect Photography & Video
- Topic: Citheronia splendens
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3037
Re: Citheronia splendens
If you look closely at this photo, taken at Pena Blanca in southeast Arizona, you can see numerous C. splendens (as well as E. oslari, the yellow moths).
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:50 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: SE Arizona
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1679
SE Arizona
I haven't noticed any reports from this year's monsoon season. Has anybody been out there? If so, how was the collecting?
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 3:47 pm
- Forum: Insect Photography & Video
- Topic: Osmeteria of P. rumiko
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4030
Re: Osmeteria of P. rumiko
I also have a problem posting pictures in the correct order. I usually have to post them in reverse order (last one first) in order to make them appear in the correct order. Adam, how do you swap them around?
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 5:15 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Three favorite Eudocimas
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2636
Re: Three favorite Eudocimas
Vernon,
Charlie Swank, who sometimes visits this forum, caught this several years ago near Houston, TX USA. We think it's E. apta. Is that correct?
Charlie Swank, who sometimes visits this forum, caught this several years ago near Houston, TX USA. We think it's E. apta. Is that correct?
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:04 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Papilio glaucus
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2409
Re: Papilio glaucus
I used a female P. glaucus maynardi specimen as a model for a painting I did (see Insect Art, "Butterflies & Bees" on this forum). The blue was just as extensive as on this photo. Not all females have this much blue, however.
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 3:42 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Strange burrows
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2130
Re: Strange burrows
Could be burrows of Sphecius grandis (western cicada killer)