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Post by bugboys3 on Aug 4, 2017 17:44:37 GMT -8
Looks like a great trip. Where did you have the best nights? Was cottonwood good? We had two really good nights. The first night on Harshaw Rd. and one night at Copper Canyon. Our second night on Harshaw was just ok. The two nights at Cottonwood Canyon were not very good, but that was because of the weather. The first night the wind picked up and there was lightning everywhere. We packed up and drove back to the hotel. We went back the next night and it rained until 10 pm. The wind finally calmed down and the sky cleared up, but the temperature dropped into the 50s. We got 2 A. oculea, a nice M. rustica and a decent Black Witch moth. If the weather was better I think Cottonwood could have been really good. It sure is a beautiful area.
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Post by rayrard on Aug 4, 2017 18:23:27 GMT -8
Our good nights were very correlated with wind and to a lesser degree temperature. Every day had rain in the mtns and the temps were always in the 60's at night.
Wed 26th - Mt Lemmon near Tuscon was by far the warmest night (70+ no wind) and was very productive but only sphingids and smalls. No sats or large lasiocampids. Thurs - Madera Canyon had rain until 10pm and it was around 66 degrees but no wind. We stayed 2 hrs or so with a small amount of sphinx, a few oculea, and a few Chrysina and then packed up when it started to rain again. Fri - Madera Canyon was in a different spot but cooler (low 60's) with a cool breeze coming down the canyon suppressed moths until late. A pretty good sheet by late in the night (after midnight), as would be the pattern for other nights Sat - Pena Blanca had rain ending in afternoon and conditions being high 60's with little or no wind (occasional breezes). Sheet was AWESOME with hundreds of sphinx and sats. Sun - Box Canyon - serious gustywind for most of the night with gusts enough to destroy my MV light by knocking over the sheet into the tripod. We had to manually hold the sheet for a while for the 400 watt. For a brief period of time at like 1am the wind stopped and stuff came flooding in. The sheet was very good for about an hour and a half and the wind started again and the sheet died off. Mon - Chiricahuas - light wind and mid 60's temps led to a slow building but good sheet. Best stuff came between 12-3am. Tues - Same spot as first sheet at Mt Lemmon. Breezy and action was MUCH less than a week earlier.
Seems like wind is a major factor in predicting good sheets. Not sure if the moon or wetness was a factor
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Post by bugboys3 on Nov 9, 2017 6:32:51 GMT -8
I have slowly been spreading material my son and I caught this summer from our Arizona trip. While going through stuff I have come across some really cool stuff I wasn't aware that we had caught. Well while spreading some last night from Cottonwood Canyon, I was spreading Automeris cecrops panima. I spread a beautiful fresh male and a nice large female. Then I pulled the last one out of my relaxing box. It was a larger one and when I realized it was a male I got excited that possibly we did get a A. randa. Well sure enough. It is worn but I will take it. My wife thinks I'm a total nerd to get geeked up about a beat up moth. I also had to text a picture to my son at college. He must have caught it when I was taking a nap in the truck.
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Post by bugboys3 on Nov 9, 2017 6:34:23 GMT -8
Here he is.
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Post by 58chevy on Nov 9, 2017 17:41:47 GMT -8
Where did you catch the A. randa?
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Post by bugboys3 on Nov 9, 2017 18:20:45 GMT -8
Where did you catch the A. randa? Cottonwood Canyon on the New Mexico border.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 18:39:54 GMT -8
That is an awesome capture. I've caught only one nearby in 2013 and we tried several locations over the better part of a week. Rearing them nice and all, but actually capturing one is the dream. Tell your wife that mine was in similar condition and that I, too, flipped over it. If your wife convinces you that it is too worn, I know somebody who'd gladly take it.
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Post by bugboys3 on Nov 10, 2017 7:42:45 GMT -8
Don't worry Bill. My wife doesn't care what I keep. It is not going anywhere. Considering how the weather didn't totally cooperate when we were there, I am surprised at how many new species we came away with this time. Another cool moth we caught is the Edward's Glassy Wing (Hemihyalea edwardsii).
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Post by T.C. on Nov 10, 2017 12:42:03 GMT -8
Don't worry Bill. My wife doesn't care what I keep. It is not going anywhere. Considering how the weather didn't totally cooperate when we were there, I am surprised at how many new species we came away with this time. Another cool moth we caught is the Edward's Glassy Wing (Hemihyalea edwardsii). Hemihyalea edwardsii are in Arizona?
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Post by leptraps on Nov 10, 2017 14:11:47 GMT -8
I just began to remove several hundred moths from my spreading boards that I collected in SE Arizona this past summer. Phoenicoprocta hampsonii Pygarctia roseicapitis
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Post by bugboys3 on Nov 11, 2017 10:23:54 GMT -8
Don't worry Bill. My wife doesn't care what I keep. It is not going anywhere. Considering how the weather didn't totally cooperate when we were there, I am surprised at how many new species we came away with this time. Another cool moth we caught is the Edward's Glassy Wing (Hemihyalea edwardsii). Hemihyalea edwardsii are in Arizona? At least I think so. They are listed on the Moths of Southeasten Arizona website. I may have them identified wrong. I will post a picture of them when they come off the spreading board to confirm.
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Post by rayrard on Nov 11, 2017 22:12:05 GMT -8
Yeah those were there Attachments:
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Post by rayrard on Nov 11, 2017 22:15:56 GMT -8
A nice day-flier, the Geronimo Forester, from Sabino Canyon Attachments:
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