I had the good fortune to be able to go insect collecting again in SE Arizona the last week of July. I had an even better fortune to be able to go collecting with 2 great guys that share my passion for collecting. Being able to have a couple of companions who new the area much better than I made me ...

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After some much needed rain the Catocala action has picked up quite a bit with several species showing up for the first time this year.
C. ultronia
C. amica
C. neogama
C. paleogama
C. unijuga

The "Hackberry Emperor" is wrong as well. It is staggering how bad that poster is.

These are all great ideas. Thank you everyone. I especially like the idea of placing small pans of soapy water around the outside of the trap to capture beetles.

I bought a bucket light trap from Bioquip before they closed shop. I have used it a couple of times in the back yard as a live catch trap. I would like to set it up as a kill trap when I bring it to Arizona in a couple of weeks. I have tried filling a small plastic jar with ethyl acetate, drilling a...

I am a little more hopeful now that we received some good rainfall this past week. The last couple of days has yielded the following: C. ilia form normanii C. blandula C. parta C. insolabilis Last year produced the most C. coccinata I have ever seen, and yes they are one of the earliest species. I d...

Catocala season finally started for me yesterday. Probably the latest start to the season I can remember. However, it makes sense since spring was about 2 weeks late this year in Southern Wisconsin. I had 1 C. ilia in the bait trap yesterday. This morning I had 4 and they were all different forms in...

I get these in my bait trap every year. They must also like rotted bananas.

Arctiinae is also one of my favorite families of moths. I have several D. howardi I collected in Arizona, but I do not have a female.
The females are spectacular. Hopefully I can collect one some day.

Speyeria nokomis coerulescens

S. n. appachiana

S. n. nitrocris

S. idalia
Some of my favorite Speyeria.

Hello everyone, My former member name was bugboys3, a moniker that my wife gave to me and my 2 boys when they were much younger. She would call us her 3 bug boys when we would go out collecting for their 4H collections. I have been an Insectnet member since the days Clark was running the site. I am ...