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Post by joee30 on May 17, 2018 14:31:09 GMT -8
I would love to get a series of Eurytides marcellus, both spring and summer forms. Alas, I am in the West, and they don't occur here.
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Post by coloradeo on May 17, 2018 21:56:19 GMT -8
Saw my first Swallowtail in the Denver area today! Perhaps the season is upon us here. Last week was very rainy and moderate, so maybe that spurred some Leps to emerge. I'll have lights out this weekend.
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Post by exoticimports on May 25, 2018 3:45:25 GMT -8
I’m waiting for Luna. Despite having raised and released hundreds finding one on the porch in the morning is always a delight. They still take my breath away. Hi Chuck Please let me know when you see Luna. I want to put out the sheet here on the other side of the lake. I never collect one believe it or not. Paul Paul, as expect A. luna arrived last night. First "warm" night staying close to 70F. And timing was right. Very predictable species. Came to 18W BL kill trap. Unfortunately was damaged pretty badly, but I set it anyway. Chuck
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 8, 2018 3:53:56 GMT -8
Good night in upstate NY last night. Previous week has been cold, overcast, rainy so I didn't bother to MV. The week before that was glorious (I hear) but I was in Florida.
First specimen I got was Hyles Gallii, very exciting since I'd never seen one in my life! Fresh specimen too.
By 10pm I'd taken another sphingid, as well as a bunch of noctuid that have "catocala" colored underwings- haven't looked up species.
In the morning were an Arctid (first one) and two polyphemus males. Lots of small, interesting moths that I've captured before.
Chuck
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Post by coloradeo on Jun 13, 2018 21:44:58 GMT -8
Chuck, I collected in Wisconsin last week and caught two "catocala like" speciimens with yellow "squiggly line" underwings I have also not had a chance to look up. Curious what you find. Also got a Polyphemus, several sphinx species and a bunch of tigers -- and more mosquitoes than the world should be allowed to have!
Eric
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 27, 2018 6:48:15 GMT -8
Paul, two luna late last night. There was a moon, but it was warm. I wasn't going to put any light out, but there was so much small stuff activity around the 60W incandescent that I put out a 12W BL. Some time during the night it clouded over and then rained, so this must have been perfect to bring in the lunas. One is a good CM wider and longer than the other, a real giant. Nothing else of interest.
Been a strange year. Either too cold, or moon or clear sky. Not many "perfect" nights.
This season: Oddly, zero Darapsa pholus they are usually quite common. Two D. myron, which are very rare here. A few male io one night, nothing since, with io usually almost being a pest at the light. Lots of noctuids, no catocala yet. No promethea yet...I have two hanging here in my office, I wish the bloody things would eclose.
Now here's the real kicker...kick in the pants. C. angulifera is not generally known from anywhere in this area. I found one male, really beat, floating in the lake ten years ago. I don't think it travelled far because it wasn't falling apart. Never seen a live one, never had one at a light, though promethea is common.
Eight years ago my little one started a bug collection. Then, about four years ago the school started an annual science fair in which we had a display. Around that time I added some showy stuff- glaucus, polyphemus, promethea to her collection to show off. I clearly remember grabbing a male promethea at the light, dispatching it, and setting it for her collection. I didn't bother labeling it.
So last week (here's the real kicker!! OUCH!) I grabbed a Schmidt box lying sideways out of the closet. Upon opening it, I discovered her now-disinterested collection. And what's this?!! That's not a promethea! It's angulifera! What an ID10T !!!! How could I have that thing inches from my face and not realize it wasn't promethea? I clearly remember catching and setting it but NO DATA. Arrrggghhhhh!
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 12, 2018 20:23:44 GMT -8
Chuck, I collected in Wisconsin last week and caught two "catocala like" speciimens with yellow "squiggly line" underwings I have also not had a chance to look up. Curious what you find. Also got a Polyphemus, several sphinx species and a bunch of tigers -- and more mosquitoes than the world should be allowed to have! Eric Post script to my note above... Pulled the "catocala like" specimens off the board tonight... they were Euparthenos nubilis... curiously they are not noted from Wisconsin on MPG, but with some deeper digging, the Checklist of Wisconsin Moths (Ferge et al) says they are found throughout all regions. Eric
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Post by bugboys3 on Jul 13, 2018 12:00:10 GMT -8
Chuck, I collected in Wisconsin last week and caught two "catocala like" speciimens with yellow "squiggly line" underwings I have also not had a chance to look up. Curious what you find. Also got a Polyphemus, several sphinx species and a bunch of tigers -- and more mosquitoes than the world should be allowed to have! Eric Post script to my note above... Pulled the "catocala like" specimens off the board tonight... they were Euparthenos nubilis... curiously they are not noted from Wisconsin on MPG, but with some deeper digging, the Checklist of Wisconsin Moths (Ferge et al) says they are found throughout all regions. Eric I have not seen or collected E. nubilis in Wisconsin but I knew it was here. Les Ferge has been compiling Wisconsin moth records for a long time. He is going to check out my collection within the next year to see if I have anything to add to the state records.
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Post by exoticimports on Jul 13, 2018 14:08:42 GMT -8
Nubilis is common here. I don’t bother catching them.
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Post by Paul K on Jul 13, 2018 14:35:24 GMT -8
Nubilis is common here. I don’t bother catching them. Despite being lazy for night collecting I found one on this side of the lake too. It occurs here well before Catocalas.
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Post by exoticimports on Jul 14, 2018 3:57:36 GMT -8
Wife was attacked by a Luna two days ago.
First catocala last night.
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Post by nightwings on Jul 30, 2018 4:02:23 GMT -8
Funny about the luna attack! My wife and I had put out a female E. calleta near the mouth of Madera Canyon in the Santa Rita Mtns. of AZ on Friday. The female did not appear to be calling, with no evident scent organ exposed as usual. But that did not stop a male from fluttering around my wife, totally ignoring the female moth. Nevertheless, I snatched him and put him in the cage and they mated about 40 minutes later. That is odd as they usually mate immediately for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 8:32:20 GMT -8
Here in the UK we are having the hottest summer since 1976, hardly a drop of rain in over 2 months, in my neck of the woods in northern England we have had Sartyrium w album and aricia agestis, both very rare butterflies around my way, reaching almost epidemic levels with hundreds of specimens being seen, you are lucky to see any most years, of course I secured a series for myself.
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