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Post by dynastes23 on Feb 13, 2011 14:56:25 GMT -8
unknown tiger moth from wisconsin found in northern wisconsin Attachments:
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Post by evra on Feb 13, 2011 15:17:46 GMT -8
It's Platarctia parthenos.
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Post by Khalid Fadil on Feb 18, 2011 21:52:58 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2011 20:44:47 GMT -8
I've been northen WI for trips for decades and not seen this gem (P. parthenos). Sure wouldn't mind getting one. The neatest Tiger I've caught up there is Arctia caja americana.
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Post by nusferatus369 on Feb 20, 2011 4:40:20 GMT -8
Hi have the luck to catch the two subspecise in Quebec parthenos and borealis. The borealis subspecise is the pair on the top of the caja.  |
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Post by boghaunter1 on Feb 20, 2011 10:31:50 GMT -8
A relatively common sp. up here in Sask. some yrs. Following is an old scanned slide of a single night's catch from one B.L. trap back in the '80's...they have never been that abundant since...  John K. Attachments:
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Post by Chris Grinter on Feb 20, 2011 10:59:08 GMT -8
I had a similar catch to John's in Northern Wisconsin circa 2002. It's a moth you can always expect to see in low numbers but they have banner years every decade or so. But this seems to be one of the moths that is sensitive to the introduced tachinid parasite and gypsy moth spraying that is wiping out larger leps in the NE. A few prolific collectors in Michigan that I'm friends with have never seen this moth in the field!
Now only if A. caja had abundant years like this...
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Post by Chris Grinter on Feb 20, 2011 11:31:36 GMT -8
Hi have the luck to catch the two subspecise in Quebec parthenos and borealis. The borealis subspecise is the pair on the top of the caja. Could you show a side-by-side of those parthenos subspecies? I didn't know there were any out there! |
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Post by boghaunter1 on Feb 21, 2011 8:04:33 GMT -8
I never knew there were different ssp. of parthenos either?? Another old slide from back in the 80's (again from the old forum) of a single night's B. L. trap catch of A. caja...again they have never been that abundant at any time since.  John K. Attachments:
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Post by nusferatus369 on Feb 21, 2011 11:53:17 GMT -8
i will take the picture around the end of the week
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