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- Tue Sep 19, 2023 7:14 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Hemileuca sp. (Buck Moths)
- Replies: 10
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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
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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: 14077
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
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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: 3845
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: 2394
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: 3226
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: 3226
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: 1855
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: 4217
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: 2707
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: 2562
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: 2169
Re: Strange burrows
Could be burrows of Sphecius grandis (western cicada killer)
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 10:00 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Hemileuca sp. (Buck Moths)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5238
Re: Hemileuca sp. (Buck Moths)
More USA buck moth species, top photo:
H. electra mojavensis (top)
H. electra clio (lower two)
lower photo, top to bottom:
H. grotei (top)
H. electra electra
H. electra mojavensis
H. electra mojavensis
H. burnsi
H. electra mojavensis (top)
H. electra clio (lower two)
lower photo, top to bottom:
H. grotei (top)
H. electra electra
H. electra mojavensis
H. electra mojavensis
H. burnsi
- Sun Aug 06, 2023 9:18 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Ceanothus Silkmoth (Hyalophora euryalus)
- Replies: 2
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Re: Ceanothus Silkmoth (Hyalophora euryalus)
Nike stole their logo from this moth.
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 1:21 am
- Forum: Coleoptera
- Topic: Fun with Strategus
- Replies: 0
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Fun with Strategus
This is my bug-enthusiast grandson.
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Blinded Sphinxes, Part 2
- Replies: 3
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Re: Blinded Sphinxes, Part 2
Evra, where in AZ can you catch them all? I was unaware that Smerinthus had been revised. Now I have to figure out what I have and what I need to look for. Thanks for the info.
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 12:26 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Blinded Sphinxes, Part 2
- Replies: 3
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Blinded Sphinxes, Part 2
Top to bottom:
Smerinthus saliceti
Smerinthus cerisyi
Paonias astylus
Smerinthus saliceti
Smerinthus cerisyi
Paonias astylus
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 12:20 am
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Blinded Sphinxes. Part1
- Replies: 0
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Blinded Sphinxes. Part1
There are several species of "blinded sphinx" in N. America.
Here are some I have collected, top to bottom:
Smerinthus jamaicensis
Paonias excaecata
Paonias myops
Here are some I have collected, top to bottom:
Smerinthus jamaicensis
Paonias excaecata
Paonias myops
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 2:25 pm
- Forum: Show Your Favorite Specimen
- Topic: Heliconius doris
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2581
Re: Heliconius doris
I love heliconians, especially variable species like these.