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- Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Net bag color?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 13568
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: 10040
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: 10040
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: 601
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: 13568
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: 251
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: 374
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Other Insect Orders & Other Invertebrates
- Topic: Please ID this large orthoptera
- Replies: 2
- Views: 374
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:00 pm
- Forum: Open Topics
- Topic: Light collecting
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1841
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: 702
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: 1841
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: 1841
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: 1674
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: 846
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: 1674
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: 888
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: 888
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: 888
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: 10328
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: 10328
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...