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Post by gradyleb on Feb 29, 2012 7:13:47 GMT -8
My hair doesn't usually allow me to wear hats but if I'm hunting at night I'll typically put on a hood
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 28, 2012 6:45:10 GMT -8
Nobody ever seems very interested in anything but Lepidoptera or Coleoptera. I makes sense and all because those are the most interesting for collectors, but personally I've been into Hymenoptera. Most aren't as collectable or look to impressive in a collection, but there are quite a few that take my breath away. Plus its just so exciting collecting them because they don't just let you catch them as easily as the others. Gives it a risk factor you just don't get from the Coleoptera or Lepidoptera.
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 19, 2012 8:13:46 GMT -8
wow, I didn't expect that Thanks for answering my petty questions guys, just goes to show that you don't need any special education to do what we do. I'm kind of happy now, I was feeling a little out of place, I was under the impression that most(if not all of you) had some sort of special training while I had none. This brightens my day Although I still have much less experience than any of you, lurking around it appears most of you have more years of experience than I've been alive! ;D
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 18, 2012 11:58:54 GMT -8
Does anybody have any degrees in entomology?
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 18, 2012 8:09:57 GMT -8
Hey guys, I was wondering what type of training/education do you guys have? You all collect/study insects, so what kind of education background or special training have you received to prepare for this(if any)? Grady
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 17, 2012 6:59:41 GMT -8
Here we go, the completed thing. Thanks for your help guys. Attachments:
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 16, 2012 10:28:04 GMT -8
My hobbies are a bit different from everybody else's. Outside of collecting insects my activities vary. Some of the unique ones include: Playing Dungeons and Dragons with my friends, and Dagorhir(a full contact foam weapon battle game). My more normal hobbies are playing video games, drawing, and cooking. Can't say that I do anything music related however.
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 16, 2012 10:20:08 GMT -8
Thanks for the photos guys ;D
I'm going to use one of Chris's photos
I'll post it here as soon as I am finished
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 15, 2012 6:34:33 GMT -8
none of the spiders in my home are large enough for the photo, also the ant colony currently terrorizing my house keep it pretty clean of spiders.
also, I haven't searched online because I'm not allowed to use stock images, either I need to take them or have permission to use them
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 14, 2012 7:13:45 GMT -8
Hey guys, I'm currently working on an art piece with a spider in it, but I currently lack any useful photos of spiders, I'd take some myself but its winter and spiders are hard to come across in the cold and it's due Friday. If anybody has a picture of a head on shot of a spider that they're willing to let me use, that would be amazing! Thank you I'll post the art piece here when I'm finished.
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 14, 2012 6:52:59 GMT -8
That grub looks amazing! I use to have a live adult speciman, I didn't get to pin it because it flew away a day or two after I caught it. Me and my buds made a little habitat for it and even had made a cart out of bottlecaps and ductape, it had no problem pulling it whatsoever but never attempted to fly away while attached. I was moving it to the habitat and it flew away.
Where did you purchase this soil? I would like to raise some as well, I live in Texas too so there shouldn't be a problem with trying to get live insects here if you were able to purchase the soil.
Also, since this is an international community, you might want to use the metric system when describing your grub, so instead of 3 inches, you should say something along the lines of 76 millimeters or 7.6 centimeters.
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 14, 2012 6:39:31 GMT -8
Hey guys, I was curious as to which ones of you have any sort of ant colony in captivity. If you have one post a picture of what it looks like . I'm looking for an interesting way to keep a colony rather than the old cliche antfarm(although if you have an antfarm still post a picture of it, I wanna see it ;D)
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 10, 2012 8:45:40 GMT -8
two years ago, while collecting locally(nearby ranch), a friend of mine had gotten bit by a rattlesnake(Crotalus atrox) and hospitalized for a couple of weeks. A few weeks later while collecting there was a serious commotion and it turned out that some guy had attempted to free climb a rock wall, fell, and broke his back. He had to be air lifted out. And while working at a summer camp, one of our Agkistrodon contortrix had escaped from its cage in the nature lodge over night and we had to recapture it before anybody got hurt.
Me personally, the worst I can think of would probably be one night I was in the woods with my buds, I wasn't collecting but we were playing around and i got up to start running and ran right into a barbed wire fence full speed, cut my arms and chest up pretty bad but it wasn't serious.
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 10, 2012 7:15:05 GMT -8
I went through a similar phase like this, in fact I just crawled out of it about a month ago, I had brought my collection to a summer camp I was working at teaching entomology. I had kept it safe, but one day while me and my class were collecting specimans, a a couple of pesky birds got into the nature lodge and ate a large portion of my collection. I managed to collect a fair number of specimans after that to rebuild my collection, but a lot of the new specimans were taken apart by ants. The next year I didn't spend nearly as much time working on my collection as I usually did and so my collection just didn't grow. I invested in a better case to hold them in but by the time I got it most of my insects were damaged.
Reading the other posts I'd say we all go through these phases and they all tend to pass eventually. I plan on working on my collection quite a bit more over the summer, although I do plan on keeping more live specimans this season.
Grady
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Post by gradyleb on Feb 3, 2012 9:52:41 GMT -8
Does anybody know of a particularly useful book on hymenoptera? I really have quite an obsession with ants but I don't have many useful books in my collection specifically about ants or any other hymenoptera. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
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