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Post by rayrard on Aug 20, 2019 20:46:48 GMT -8
Updated for 8/21, 37 species for the year so far
Catocala amatrix C. amica C. andromedae C. antinympha C. cara C. cerogama C. coccinata C. concumbens C. connubialis C. crataegi C. dejecta C. epione C. flebilis C. gracilis C. grynea C. habilis C. herodias C. ilia C. innubens C. lacrymosa C. lineella C. maestosa C. marmorata C. meskei C. micronympha C. muliercula C. nebulosa C. neogama C. obscura C. palaeogama C. parta C. praeclara C. residua C. sappho C. serena C. ultronia C. vidua
I still need a couple "easy" gets like retecta and relicta, and some rarer but gettable suspects like judith and subnata. Some usual species that may be past are sordida and blandula, which are usually quite common to find!
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Post by rayrard on Aug 22, 2019 11:13:00 GMT -8
Went baiting in coastal CT and had some good luck for once
C. ilia - 1 C. unijuga - 1 (#38) C. amatrix - 2 C. ultronia - 2 C. palaeogama - 4+ C. obscura - 1 C. residua - 2 C. vidua - 6+ C. cara - 1 C. lineella - 1
Possibly a retecta but it flew before I could see the pattern besides a black hindwing and mottled gray forewing. If I can get retecta and relicta I will get 40 species for the year.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 22, 2019 13:15:28 GMT -8
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Post by rayrard on Aug 22, 2019 15:00:42 GMT -8
looks like a very faded C. antinympha but I would need a locality as I'm assuming it's U.S.
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Post by Paul K on Aug 22, 2019 19:28:24 GMT -8
Catocala species so far for 2019: ( southern Ontario )
C. retecta -1
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 23, 2019 0:09:16 GMT -8
looks like a very faded C. antinympha but I would need a locality as I'm assuming it's U.S. Thanks for the opinion. The specimen apparently has no data, and is on public show in the museum. The ICF member did say "colours may be faded - it can have red hindwings instead yellow ones". I will post the tentative ID on the ICF. Adam.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 23, 2019 9:42:28 GMT -8
The person who asked for the ID was very happy and asked me to thank rayrard. Adam.
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Post by mothman27 on Aug 26, 2019 16:52:24 GMT -8
I am done collecting for the year due to my college starting today. I haven't done any real collecting since my trip to North Carolina. Got some new ones this year like: C. flebilis C. amica C. retecta C. micronympha C. andromeda C. minuta C. meskei Here is the prize of the year for me. From Whitley Co., IN, Union Twp. July 3, 2019. Sweet Underwing female - Catocala dulciola A1 perfect
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Post by leptraps on Aug 27, 2019 15:36:50 GMT -8
I now have 12 specimens in my collection, the majority are from Yellowwood State Forest. Yours is absolutely prefect.
Nice work young man.
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Post by leptraps on Aug 27, 2019 16:09:56 GMT -8
I moved into my new home in Aurora, Ohio on 16 August. I set put a Slotted Pan Bait Trap (Same one that hung in my back yard in Scott County, Kentucky for fourteen years) in a Black Locusts tree in my back yard. I have collected all the late summer Nymphalids: Polygonia comma, P. interrogations, Nymphalis antiopa, Vanessa atalanta and a stunning female of Basilarchia archippus.
I also collected several nice Noctuid moths: Apamea amputatrix and Apamea centralis. I also collected a Dypterygia rozmani. A little out of Season.
I also set out several Slotted Pan Type Bait Traps east of Mantua near the Mantua Bog.
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Post by rayrard on Aug 27, 2019 18:47:09 GMT -8
leptraps, did you have any specific info on that location near Blue Grass VA you told me about in July? We had good luck finding Catocala in the Blacksburg area, but we didn't find similar habitat near Blue Grass. We drove the FS road from Blue Grass to West Virginia (past Lake Buffalo). Did you have coordinates or a spot on the map for the spots you'd find Catocala?
Is this spot for lighting, baiting, or tapping? I didn't notice many side roads or spots to collect as there was lots of dense forest. The only area that seemed open was Straight Fork but no hickory/oak forest
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Post by leptraps on Aug 28, 2019 3:25:14 GMT -8
Not trying to make an excuse, please remember, it was over 30 years ago the I collected that area. And Visited several times a month. If I remember correctly, the last time I visited the area was in the mid 1990's.
I am sure forest succession has had a significant impact on the area. I keep talking about visiting the area again, just never get round to it.
I have been told (2003?) the bottom area of meadows has (been) reforested.
Did you come out the same way you came in or did you come out in West Virginia and travel on?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2019 13:25:26 GMT -8
Gotta say 2019 has been pretty good Cat wise. Now, it has risen to the ranks of all time best. Why you wonder.....
Just recently, I drove 1600 miles round trip in 36 hours to the border of TN and NC and caught 22 Catocala marmorata. No, that’s not a typo. Saw about 27 and got the 22 with a few other species as well. Prior to this point I had merely caught one marmorata which I was thankful for. This was a magical night that will probably never happen again.
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Post by rayrard on Aug 29, 2019 18:23:14 GMT -8
Not trying to make an excuse, please remember, it was over 30 years ago the I collected that area. And Visited several times a month. If I remember correctly, the last time I visited the area was in the mid 1990's. I am sure forest succession has had a significant impact on the area. I keep talking about visiting the area again, just never get round to it. I have been told (2003?) the bottom area of meadows has (been) reforested. Did you come out the same way you came in or did you come out in West Virginia and travel on? We traveled from Blue Grass and went west up into the ridge from the farmland in the lowlands near Blue Grass. We emerged into a fairly narrow valley with a farmhouse and a stream flowing through a weedy meadow with a bunch of milkweed. There were no roads up or down that stream valley but it was only about a quarter mile before the road went back into dense woods and stayed there and went up a second ridge. There were no FS roads noted and not much roadside options because it was dense forest. Definitely too cool to tree tap as it cooled into the low 80's up there. We continued up to the Lake Buffalo area and then to the main road in WV where we got gas in the town there. Then we took that road north to the Spruce Knob area and turned south to return to Blue Grass from the north route. So we basically made a big circle. Definitely didn't look like good Catocala forest as it was lots of maples. Herodias is a scrub oak feeder and we saw no dry scrub forest anywhere in that area. The only place for day collecting was that short quarter mile in that narrow valley and there wasn't much on the milkweeds. Maybe it is succession then
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Post by rayrard on Aug 29, 2019 18:25:02 GMT -8
Gotta say 2019 has been pretty good Cat wise. Now, it has risen to the ranks of all time best. Why you wonder..... Just recently, I drove 1600 miles round trip in 36 hours to the border of TN and NC and caught 22 Catocala marmorata. No, that’s not a typo. Saw about 27 and got the 22 with a few other species as well. Prior to this point I had merely caught one marmorata which I was thankful for. This was a magical night that will probably never happen again. It must be a very good year for them. We had over a dozen marmorata (only a few caught) in SW VA in July but all of them were tree tapping. We put out two MV lights and a bait line in the same forest at night we tapped and got no marmorata.
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