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- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Agapema homogena
- Replies: 6
- Views: 592
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: 13560
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: 250
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: 369
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Other Insect Orders & Other Invertebrates
- Topic: Please ID this large orthoptera
- Replies: 2
- Views: 369
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1839
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: 700
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: 1839
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: 1839
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: 1666
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: 845
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: 1666
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...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: The Little Drawer of Horrors
- Replies: 5
- Views: 886
Re: The Little Drawer of Horrors
very easily just utilize another drawer Do I look like Dr. Hyatt to you? Noooo, sir. I am out of space for drawers. My drawers are full. I have more drawers than I promised myself I'd have. I just counted, I'm 17 drawers past cabinet capacity. Thanks though! (if anyone suggests another cabinet, I'l...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: The Little Drawer of Horrors
- Replies: 5
- Views: 886
Re: The Little Drawer of Horrors
Chuck, tell us more about the ones that are not MST, canadensis, or glaucus? Hybrids. But of what, and to what proportion, I don't know. That's why it's such a nightmare. Not anything exciting like a new taxon. On the latter topic though, both canadensis and glaucus trees each show two distinct cla...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: The Little Drawer of Horrors
- Replies: 5
- Views: 886
The Little Drawer of Horrors
I have one drawer that I absolutely hate to pull out. It's a mess- because for several reasons it's a taxonomic trainwreck. I really hate looking at it. It's labeled " canadensis " but most are not. I can live with the fact that it's a bit of a dumping ground including Pennsylvania MST (ri...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10325
Re: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
Mr. Stout said he was going to send ANOTHER free net bag, I said no need at all, but indeed he did.
I wonder how many nets I have to order to get a free Porsche.
I wonder how many nets I have to order to get a free Porsche.
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:49 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10325
Re: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
I can see where this got sidetracked, and we've had this conversation before. I applaud Todd for his youth outreach, but face it, field collecting is headed downhill. That said, so long as there are nets and drawers available and not illegal, there will be some few who will continue to enjoy this ce...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10325
Re: Where to buy: Bioquip folding net "National Park Special"
https://store.raisingbutterflies.org/category-s/1853.htm - is a direct copy of the BioQuip net rim. I ordered two of the nets from the link above "Raising Butterflies.org" Took the risk despite never having heard of them. Very professional: online ordering worked, received a notice of ord...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: USA Insect Drawers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20147
Re: USA Insect Drawers
Brent Karner, who used to run BioQuipBugs before Royce bought it, is a top tier guy. No kidding! He sure is. I went to that website when first posted, but I didn't recognize Brent...he got...older. Off topic, what happened with Jerry? I think he retired, but haven't heard boo from him in almost two...
- Wed Jan 24, 2024 1:27 pm
- Forum: Announcements & News
- Topic: USA Insect Drawers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 20147
Re: USA Insect Drawers
Somewhere there is a discussion on plastazote and equivalent tight, closed cell foams for pinning. IIRC it has links to where I got mine in rolled sheets at a very much lower price than buying precut.