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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1760
Re: Light collecting
@boghunter John those look like alien spacecraft, I'm surprised the cops don't show up.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9717
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
I blame Ohio State for the loss of the bugs. It was their curator who choose to neglect their care until USFWS released them. Legally speaking, until the package is released, it is evidence and it's custody of USFWS- it's their responsibility. I wouldn't do anything with it either, as during that p...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: New N. American Butterflies
- Replies: 3
- Views: 512
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Breeding: Boloria improba
- Replies: 1
- Views: 221
Re: Breeding: Boloria improba
Bravo! Spectacular work, impeccable photography! Thanks for taking the time to share this.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9717
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
So, back in the days when those guys were poaching from US national parks and stuff, there was another less known case involving John Kemner and his commercial collecting in Mexico. In that case, USFWS seized all the Mexican bugs out of a collection I was aware of, but left the US material alone. I...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Spring Captures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 280
Re: Spring Captures
Brief warm spell after last week's snowstorm. Yesterday topped 70F/21C and same today. Yet I've not seen a single Nymphalid, which is unusual; typically a few pop out and catch some sunlight before hibernating again. We were in FL for 10 days and despite dragging the family through various environme...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Spring Captures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 280
Re: Spring Captures
LOL. Good one. No, I gave those to Dr. Hyatt during the purge last year. Given that there was snow on the ground yesterday still, I think up this way we can safely keep the nets in the basement for a couple more months.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: Field Reports
- Topic: Spring Captures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 280
Re: Spring Captures
very nice, and how fortunate.
Here's a photo of my spring 2024 captures:
Impressed?
Here's a photo of my spring 2024 captures:
Impressed?
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:36 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9717
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
This topic has brought a question to my mind. Do people really make a living selling insects? I've tried it years ago, when the internet was young. It seems like a difficult market. Perhaps it's the suppliers, but in any event, how many buyers are out there that continue to purchase material? I fin...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9717
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Agreed Chuck, clearly Charles knew what he was doing, continuing to receive material, he was still operating his business up until not long ago. He was gruffy and perhaps conceited, tempting fate with the feds is not my idea of sound strategy. Looks like Charles is still in business. There is a Dr....
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9717
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
That's unfortunate for Dr. Limmer. I am sorry for him. Yes, he circumvented the rules. Nevertheless, I have sympathy, not everyone will, like I told my defense attorney one time- "someone's got to do it" . If there is a market, there will be suppliers, I have limmerleps butterflies- I fee...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Net bag color?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13059
Re: Net bag color?
Great, all the new bags I bought are black. The "good" news is that it didn't matter on my last trip, since 10 days in FL I never had cause to take the net out. By the way, I was just in the field where I found out that my open-weave white bag was in pretty bad shape. I used it for w few d...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9717
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
When the federal government agencies plan to search a home for evidence to arrest someone they have to get a warrant from a judge (this is about as hard as buying a hotdog at a hotdog vendor.) In the warrant application they have to cite where they want search and what they're searching for (and wil...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:54 pm
- Forum: Legal issues
- Topic: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
- Replies: 38
- Views: 9717
Re: NY Man charged with smuggling birdwings
Update - https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/long-island-insect-collector-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-rare-birdwing-butterflies/5177683/. $30k penalty plus incarceration TBD. And surrender of his collection which I'm sure is more than "1,000 specimens". Look like they've...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Lepidoptera
- Topic: Agapema homogena
- Replies: 6
- Views: 458
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: 13059
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: 211
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: 309
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Other Insect Orders & Other Invertebrates
- Topic: Please ID this large orthoptera
- Replies: 2
- Views: 309
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1760
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....