Interestingly, we capture two species of Phanaeus here at our home where we operated dung beetle traps for about 40 years. The two species are Phanaeus vindex and Phanaeus triangularis . Few persons are aware that about 35 years ago we lived off of our earlier life savings when I returned to college...

Regarding Enodia (Lethe) in Louisiana, we have taken a small series of Satyrodes appalachia in fermenting fruit bait traps. And in 2013 we published the attached about the three species we have in our state. Here at our home where Arundanaria 'bamboo' is very abundant E. portlandia missarkae is ver...

Chuck, Regarding the squash vine borer lure, I have used many hundreds of these lures with this species name from several manufacturers for several decades. Off hand I have captured at least three species of clearwing moths with this lure: Paranthrene simulans , Podosesia syringae , and Vitacea pol...

John, Keep in mind we have provided you with info of the traps and lures during 2018 ad 2019 at one location. We had traps at several other locations those years as well. And we had similar collecting every year continuously using semiochemical lures from 1975 to 2022, so far. Consequently we have ...

Here in Louisiana, this species is difficult to near impossible to capture by net in woodland areas. But using fermenting fruit bait traps, many can be easily captured daily when the two annual broods occur here. Here is a little species account I published about this species in Louisiana about 30 ...

John, It is easy to use common plastic containers you throw out in your trash to fabricate clearwing moth lure traps that work far better than any available on the market worldwide. The commercially available traps are designed for monitoring species, not collecting species for study and place into...

John, the answer is: all of the lures you can get your hands on. But, you cannot willy-nilly combine lures of different species without years of trial and error. My recommendation, is to never combine more than two different lure identities in a single trap. Consider, we have captured about 400,000...

Since it survived for centuries earlier, no doubt it is still with us. The moth occurs in near the immediate adjacent coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico from east Texas, all across Louisiana coastal areas, to western coastal areas of Mississippi. All that BS from the Feds and other misguided fools...

Chuck, the number 1 reason for declines in populations of anything is habitat destruction. Regarding loss of forest in the easter US, the actual situation is that the majority of all eastern US forest disappearance had occurred by the early 1800s. The forest you see today is what has been grown and...

Consider, we (Charlotte D. Brou & Vernon A. Brou Jr.) have kept capture records by and for thousands of specific insect species every day of every year without fail here in Louisiana for the past 53 years. No one, I repeat, no one has accumulated population data such as this for over 5 decades....

The discussion here is greatly limiting in scope and understanding. In 1918 Barnes and Mcdonnough listed 10 different names synonymous which were mostly described as variations of ilia. And if you are familiar with the rules of zoological nomenclature, form names have no taxonomical status. And in t...

Chuck, no I would not try to name a species on Fakebook, this Fake News platform changes and deletes what is posted and all of that FB crap is temporary and can change or be deleted totally out of your control several times daily. This is not a stable venue. Though a few years back, our good friend...

I see a lot of BS stated here about publishing research and describing new species, etc. There is no such thing as a 'go to venue', or 'respected publication', 'peer reviewed' or 'not peer reviewed', makes no difference. Peer review is nearly useless unless you are a novice author, and don't have a ...

Regarding Tolype, I have a manuscript in preparation currently on the three species occurring in the state of Louisiana. T. velleda appears to be univoltine, certainly is in Louisiana. The other two Louisiana species T. minta has four annual brood and T notialis has six annual broods. See unpublishe...

We have personally captured over 200,000 adult hawkmoths in the state of Louisiana. We captured numerous tens of thousands of this particular species. No doubt, A. floridensis is the most abundant species of hawkmoth occurring throughout all of the Gulf Coastal states Florida to Texas. I have captur...

Automeris louisiana Ferguson and Brou, 1981 Type locality: Golden Meadow, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, USA

Ferguson, Douglas C. and V. A. Brou Jr. 1981. A new species of Automeris Hubner (Saturnidae) from the Mississippi
River Delta. Jour. Lepid. Soc.

Suggestion: How about a forum index icon titled 'Research request'. Not for identification inquiries or topics for which are more suitable for the index icons already existing. Of course we could make such request in Announcements section, but this is a rather specific topic, not exactly fitting int...