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Post by bugboys3 on Sept 27, 2017 8:51:00 GMT -8
I have gotten just about nothing this year. Maybe 6-7 specimens. I am putting my trap away for the year. Hopefully next year will be better. On a better note some of my Automeris louisiana are hatching.
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Post by rayrard on Sept 27, 2017 9:04:02 GMT -8
Got a relicta and a concumbens last night... slow but good species showed up including Hologram Moth, Grammia arge, and 3 Papaipema sp
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 9:10:36 GMT -8
Me too........with nothing coming in these last few weeks, I'm putting it up for the season. Glad to hear your A. louisiana are hatching. Mine should be any day now. Time to mount up stuff. Just did fifty little moths this morning. Cecrops and hesselorum are now pupating along with the ,polyphemus, luna, patagoniensis, and oculea. Soon I'll be able to have my morning coffee wo having to change out tons of leaves for the tubs. I'll disinfect the tubs and put them away for next season. In October, I'll put the dozens of overwintering cocoons in the frig. Hopefully spring will come fast....... My big project for next season is the large scale rearing of the black form polyphemus . By next season's end, I should be sick and tired of polyphemus rearing, but...........then the blacks will eclose and I'll be in bug heaven. Good year for rearing Sats., but the Cats were poor indeed except for eastern TN at my honey hole. This year I got seven Huckleberry Sphinxes which are a gem to get along with tons of coccinata and andromadae.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 10:58:51 GMT -8
I've called it quits for the year as well. I took down and cleaned up the bait trap. Collecting was dismal this year.
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Post by mothman27 on Sept 27, 2017 11:00:47 GMT -8
Huckleberry sphinx, nice!
Again I did not get a C. relicta. I know I saw one about 5 years ago here and poplars are here so sometime I should get one. I also makes me wonder how many species are here that I haven't seen yet. Even though overall it was a poor year for Cats I am more that happy to have gotten Catocala dulciola and 5 other species for the first time. And for me an outstanding year for Papaipema, with 10 species including some very nice ones. The only one that I have gotten in he past but not this year is P. cataphracta.
I also collected a strange papaipema a couple weeks ago, it appears to be a dwarf, the total TL is no more than 13mm (WS 25). The only one close to that size that I know of is impecuniosa and it looks more like a baptisiae/arctivorens type. I'll have to post a pic later on.
Considering 95% of my collecting is at my house on 2 acres, what more can I expect. We recently had a spell of very warm weather in the 80s so it made up for the chilly August here, thus I am not quitting quite yet.
I can't say my rearing was too successful this year with both of my large automeris batches (zephyria and io) dying off in 4th and 5th instar. I did end up getting cecropias to do well and some luna and promethea.
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Post by rayrard on Sept 29, 2017 22:32:39 GMT -8
Still see many photos on iNaturalist of fresh Catocala even up in the northeast. Wish they would come around me.
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Post by leptraps on Oct 1, 2017 15:52:46 GMT -8
Last week and took down most of my "Live Type" Bait Traps and replaced them with "Kill Type" Bucket Traps. This afternoon I checked these traps, and I was stunned. I had 20 or more Catocala moths. I think there are five (5) species. I am not sure what the one on the bottom right is. It, along with seven others on on spreading boards.
It has been a poor year for Catocala moths in general, but to collect this many on October 1st??
Kill Type Bucket Bait Trap
October Catocala Moths
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Post by leptraps on Oct 1, 2017 15:58:58 GMT -8
I forgot to mention that I set out four "Live Type" Pail Top Bait Traps and not a single Catocala. Although I did get several very nice Eupsilia vinulenta and a lone Lithophane petulca.
Live Type: Pail Top Bait Trap.
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Post by mothman27 on Oct 4, 2017 18:15:15 GMT -8
Just off the sheet, a fresh C. vidua...
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Post by rayrard on Oct 8, 2017 0:45:13 GMT -8
Saw a beat up C. unijuga and 2 C. amatrix tonite on Oct 7th. New for the year's tally. I will bit farewell to the 2017 Catocala season as I brought my lights in for the year. Just the Florida trip to finish up the year collecting.
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Post by coloradeo on Jan 19, 2018 6:46:41 GMT -8
I have a box of papered cats collected in Brockport NY 2007. Identified (not by me) as 1 amatrix, 5 cara, 1 grynea, 5 neogamma, 1 piatrix and a couple sphingids. I dislike catocala so anyone want to give me $10 to cover shipping? Send me a PM and be patient as I'm gone the next two weeks. Chuck In an overdue postscript to the note above, I wanted to thank Chuck for sending me the Cats mentioned above! I was happy we could make an exchange of Cats for some Western moths. Appreciate the camaraderie of people like Chuck on this site and always fun to exchange with others, especially those in different parts of the country. Chuck is a great friend of this community indeed and I'm glad he dislikes catocala so there's more for the rest of us ... Eric
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Post by leptraps on Jan 30, 2018 17:07:10 GMT -8
Look what I found from earlier this year.
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Post by leptraps on Jan 31, 2018 3:31:12 GMT -8
Who was the Collector from Brockport, NY. If it is who I think it is, boy do I have a story to tell. And it concerns a rattlesnake, a bottle of Moonshine and Poverty Hollow, Virginia.
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Post by coloradeo on Feb 5, 2018 18:50:33 GMT -8
It didn’t say who the collector was. Maybe Chuck knows.
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Post by andrewtim on Oct 29, 2018 12:13:33 GMT -8
Dear all colleagues! If there are some of you wishing to exchange specimens of Lepidoptera of your country (may be starting with Catocala gen.) with me, I would like to offer a number of sp-s of Catocala and many other genera of moths and butterflies from Russia, ex-Soviet Union regions and even North Korea and China. Please contact me at andins_us@yahoo.com directly. I would like to start this year and follow next. Thanks. Andrew, from Moscow
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