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Post by fishnbugz on Jul 7, 2018 23:45:12 GMT -8
I ran 13 traps tonight, all set by 10 and started picking up about midnite. A lot slower than last time, I got a few ilia, parta, meskei, micronympha, minuta, amica; several ultronia and grynea, 1 innubens, 2 amestris, 1 illecta, 1 neogama, 1 nuptialis. Amphipyra pyramidalis started showing up in the traps tonight. It might be the earliest I've ever seen neogama here. I got home and picked a big and colorful eumorpha achemon off the light. It was 10 degrees cooler tonight than last week when I did real good, but the forecast doesn't have any nights that warm this week. No more coccinata, the one I was most hoping to see...
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Post by leptraps on Jul 8, 2018 16:22:11 GMT -8
Saturday night was an absolutely incredible night for my Bait Traps. After church and lunch with Momma, I went and checked my bait traps. I had over 70 Catocala moths in the 11 bait traps in Scott and Owen Counties here in Kentucky. I did not get to the three in Franklin County (I ran out of time as we had a early dinner date with friends). I kept six (Catocala moths and about a dozen female Limentis arthemis Astyanax, several Cercyonis pegala alope and several very nice Lethe portlandia females. Although I have collected Catocala Judith before (2005 in the mountains of eastern Kentucky}, it has been many moons since I have collected them. I also collected Catocala amica and Catocala lineella. Also collected another Anaea andria, a rather worn female (Hibernator). I have her cages with some host plant, Goatweed, Croton capitatum. Double click to enlarge photograph.
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Post by LEPMAN on Jul 8, 2018 17:11:47 GMT -8
Nice specimens Leroy, your experience is well reflected in your specimen preparation.
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Post by fishnbugz on Jul 9, 2018 12:10:45 GMT -8
Caught one with a mini hindwing on Saturday. Fully formed and inflated, but half the size of normal.
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Post by fishnbugz on Jul 9, 2018 12:27:25 GMT -8
This is an Ilia with odd hindwings, a little damaged but I like unusual coloration even more than perfection.
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Post by jhyatt on Jul 12, 2018 5:50:22 GMT -8
Finally! I hit the jackpot on Catocalas after a long dry spell. Ran a sheet and several light traps with three collector-friends up to 5,000' in the Cherokee Nat. Forest in Tennessee on July 6. We took four (count 'em, 4!) C. marmorata, plus 10 other Catocala species. Nebulosa was present, plus all the usual suspects. And Noctua pronuba was an absolute weed - perhaps the most abundant species. The marmorata was my first ever seen alive.
Cheers, jh
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Post by trehopr1 on Jul 12, 2018 10:32:01 GMT -8
Fantastic jhyatt! Tennessee seems to be THE stronghold for C.marmorata.... Bgarthe has collected at least one there last year (I recall) whilst in the company of another collector who has collected (I believe) several from sites he has come to know. Beetlehorn hails from Tenn. so I would not doubt he too has found it. In my humble opinion, the state of Tennessee is probably the most "species rich" in general of all the Southern states. It's vast woodlands, many mountains and "secluded hollows", lush undergrowth etc. simply make for an idilic bug heaven in the summertime. Situated literally in the heart of the Appalachians certainly lends it all deserving accolades. If I lived there I could see myself having a "buster" of a collection as far as lepidoptera goes.
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Post by fishnbugz on Jul 12, 2018 11:05:17 GMT -8
I did my thing on the river bluffs Tuesday night, 14 traps in by 10pm. Then down to the river to toss a lure, awful nice without the weekend crowd this time. I fished two hours and and then started pulling the traps. I had a limit of (4)walleye and released a nice smallmouth bass in that time, but the moth activity was less than I'd hoped. I averaged about three catocala per trap, but lots of the traps in the oaks had very little to nothing I was interested in. The ones set in more open habitat usually do better for the leadplant moths, and a few of the traps in the right spots were stacked. Neogama, parta, ultronia, meskei?, and grynea all common, though my meskei may actually be semirelicta or both species...I got 4 amestris, which is proving much more common than I expected. A few amica or linella, micromympha, minuta, 1 illecta, 1 nuptialis, and 2 whitneyi. 1 very dark ilia form satanas, but only that one ilia. I caught a few of these dark ones last summer and have been looking to find more. Finally got one, it looked very good in the trap but turns out to be damaged...
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Post by mothman27 on Jul 12, 2018 11:49:21 GMT -8
I got a C. clintonii a couple days ago. C. grynea and C. ultronia continue to be plentiful, a couple each day.
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Post by jhyatt on Jul 12, 2018 15:02:54 GMT -8
Trehopr 1, You make Tennessee sound so good that I just might move here, if I didn't already live here!
And yes, Beetlehorn's friend who is the C. marmorata maestro was with us on the 6th, and the spot picked for the sheet was one of his favorites. I think the guy must exude some weird pheromone that attracts the species - nobody else is that lucky with marmorata!
I took a turn around some of my favorite local S. diana spots on Tuesday, and saw a good, strong flight of males (mostly very worn by now, though) - but I didn't see a single girl. The females are very sedate and don't come out to feed often; it's a lucky day when you do find them (which I have in the past, as many as 7 in a day).
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Post by trehopr1 on Jul 12, 2018 15:47:44 GMT -8
jhyatt, all this time I was under the impression you lived in Georgia (far southern coastal area). Something you said in the past about collecting "dark form" P. glaucus maynardi females I think made me think that.
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Post by mothman27 on Jul 12, 2018 18:59:36 GMT -8
Catocala illecta
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Post by mothman27 on Jul 12, 2018 19:00:20 GMT -8
Verso
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Post by mothman27 on Jul 12, 2018 19:00:54 GMT -8
Catocala blandula
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Post by mothman27 on Jul 12, 2018 19:01:33 GMT -8
Verso
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