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Post by mothman27 on Jul 12, 2018 19:02:14 GMT -8
C. clintonii
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Post by jhyatt on Jul 13, 2018 4:31:09 GMT -8
trehopr 1, We have a fishing cottage on the coast of GA and spend a couple of months or more there each year. I probably do more butterfly and moth collecting in GA than in TN. I grew up and have almost always lived in the southern Appalachians, so that subtropical coastal plain still seems exotic and interesting to me. jh
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Post by bugboys3 on Jul 13, 2018 11:54:38 GMT -8
I am late to the game this year as I just got back from vacation and finally got my trap up last night. This morning I found a nice C. insolabilis and 2 ilia. This is a much better start than last year when there was virtually nothing the entire season.
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Post by fishnbugz on Jul 14, 2018 22:22:13 GMT -8
I caught a micronympha that was a new species for "in my yard" yesterday, and the first amatrix of 2018 showed up way early tonight. There's 2 or 3 neogama in each trap, a couple parta and meskei, a couple ultronia, a couple grynea, and one minuta...not bad for just 3 traps baited, though I let most of 'em go. I had a Scoliopteryx libatrix moth the other day in a trap, nice little moth that's pretty uncommon here. Weather forecast is a lot cooler for most of the next two weeks, but so far it's still been pretty good trapping.
I was snooping around the yard this afternoon and spotted an interesting wasp setting on a milkweed leaf. It turned out to be the sessid moth Albuna fraxini, another new record for the yard. I decided to wait another season on trying to trap sessids because I've been too busy to build the traps this year and too cheap to buy them, but I'll be ready next summer and I'll have at least 3 species to match pheremones to(there's not many dots anywhere near me on MPG's maps).
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 15, 2018 11:00:58 GMT -8
The Catocala season is beginning in Colorado too. I've had one of my bait traps, a new slotted LepTrap, out in the backyard for a few nights and last night caught a small solo C ultronia.
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Post by bugboys3 on Jul 15, 2018 14:40:10 GMT -8
I had the perfect conditions for setting up the lights last night, high humidity, no wind, warm and no moon. I was hoping to see Luna or Imperial moths but no luck there. I did collect 6 species of Catocala, ultronia, serena, judith, coccinata, blandula, and grynea. Blandula and grynea are new species for me and the coccinata is only the second specimen I have. Throw in a Sphinx kalmiae nectaring on my flower baskets and it was a pretty good night.
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Post by Jonn on Jul 16, 2018 9:31:14 GMT -8
Since my last post i've seen 1 ilia, 1 maestosa, 3 muliercula & 1 piatrix. Very low numbers compared to other years, hopefully picks up soon
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Post by bugboys3 on Jul 16, 2018 15:32:33 GMT -8
Since my last post i've seen 1 ilia, 1 maestosa, 3 muliercula & 1 piatrix. Very low numbers compared to other years, hopefully picks up soon Hopefully it picks up for you. I have seen more Catocala is the last 48 hours than I had seen all of last year. I had at least a dozen in the trap this morning. I kept a neogama, a couple innubens and a mira. I let the ilia and ultronia go. That makes 10 species for me in the span of 2 days.
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Post by bugboys3 on Jul 20, 2018 9:02:14 GMT -8
I just pulled a beautiful C. cara out of the trap this morning. That is at least 2 weeks earlier than I have seen one before. I am up to 13 different species from my trap in the back yard and I got a late start.
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Post by fishnbugz on Jul 20, 2018 20:08:07 GMT -8
It's been cooler this week and a lot slower as some of the smaller ones have stopped showing up, there are still a few neogama, meskei, amatrix and parta showing up in the yard traps each night. I had one piatrix earlier this week. Most often I am not taking these but a very dark neogama showed up last night that I thought was pretty interesting.
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 20, 2018 20:58:42 GMT -8
Catching what look like C amestris now in my backyard traps too. So far just ultronia and amestris though.
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Post by fishnbugz on Jul 21, 2018 6:59:47 GMT -8
I had a fresh nice maestosa last night, only the second time I've seen this species at home. There are no hickory trees here but there are black walnut that must be hosting this species. Maestosa is the only black underwing I've ever caught here. I thought the first one was just extreme luck, but it was very fresh too; now I'm certain they aren't distant migrants, just uncommon here.
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Post by fishnbugz on Jul 22, 2018 15:35:38 GMT -8
Maestosa and Neogama
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Post by fishnbugz on Jul 22, 2018 15:39:37 GMT -8
Catocala luciana from last night.
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Post by mothman27 on Jul 27, 2018 16:08:16 GMT -8
I collected my very first Catocala cerogama on the 25th.
Today I found the following in my trap: C. blandula - 1, worn C. cara - 1, first of season C. amatrix 'selecta' - 1 C. piatrix - 2, first of the season C. nebulosa - 1, This is the first time I have collected this species here!
Location for all: Whitley County, Indiana
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