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Post by coloradeo on Aug 11, 2020 20:14:48 GMT -8
Thanks for sharing Chuck. I took my daughter backpacking in the mountains a few weeks ago. I always carry my segmented BioQuip net as a staff or walking stick often without the net on it. I’ve been wondering for years why they don’t sell an attachment to turn it into a hiking pole! Anyway, I too had a lot of fun handing my daughter the net while I was papering Speyeria and Boloria. She comes with me a few times a year when I take my lights out into the canyons as well Which is a real treat. This year we went for Arachnis picta together and found several. She spotted the female that has now produced about 100 picta caterpillars. Fun stuff indeed.
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Post by coloradeo on Aug 11, 2020 20:05:44 GMT -8
I don’t know John but he sounds like an interesting character!
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Post by coloradeo on Feb 21, 2020 5:19:28 GMT -8
Sorry bad Game of Thrones joke.
Anyone heard any updates on the Western volume?
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Post by coloradeo on Feb 19, 2020 6:20:19 GMT -8
I bought the Eastern Book. Very nice book for a Lepidopterist who needs some help with Beetles. Any update on the Western Beetles book? Starting to go through the beetles I have collected at lights over the years....
I saw the article that says A Evans is working on a Western volume. Hopefully the HBO series does not get ahead of him!
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Post by coloradeo on Feb 12, 2020 21:49:33 GMT -8
I believe based on the books and literature that I have looked at, which I would not say is definitive, that there is the nominate in Mexico, pamina in AZ and New Mexico, and peigleri in Mexico. I think only pamina is in the USA.
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Post by coloradeo on Jan 16, 2020 16:20:46 GMT -8
I certainly hope to get out and catch some Hemileuca hera this year. I've been told they are found in Summit County Colorado where I visit a lot in the summer, but the nearest records I can find locations for seem to be down the way in Grand County. I caught a H nuttalli near Cripple Creek a few years ago and was thrilled. Nice collection Tim!
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Sept 7, 2019 5:59:21 GMT -8
Wow nice stuff Mike. The aberrant is a beauty! Love the Euphydryas too. I end up in the same spots most of the time so it’s fun to see what you are catching on your western explorations.
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 3, 2019 11:05:24 GMT -8
I am currently on my annual Northern Wisconsin collecting trip. The season must be about 2-3 weeks behind here in my experience of what I would usually catch at July 4th. I am being inundated with A polyphemus, A luna and some Dryocampa rubicunda — the luna, if I would catch them at all at this time should be damaged, but I am getting very fresh males and female Polys that I don’t normally catch this late. Further, the sphinx moths loading my sheets, almost to the point of (but not quite) what I have done during the AZ monsoon. With a dark moon, temperatures into the 80s during the day, high humidity and things being late but good weather all coming together, things are bursting here. Lastly I caught what is probably a ghost moth, the Silver Spotted, in a bucket trap but so damaged as to be nearly unrecognizable. I will try there again tonight and see if there are any ghosts about.
In Colorado things have been slow and late. Further, I have been gone a lot. However, I have caught Coloradia doris and Coloradia luskii over two nights out with too much moon.
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jun 4, 2019 3:07:40 GMT -8
I won’t see my first one until mid July I’d guess, hopefully earlier. Congrats on the early catches.
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Post by coloradeo on Jun 1, 2019 13:09:53 GMT -8
Did anyone go this year? How was it?
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Post by coloradeo on May 22, 2019 21:24:17 GMT -8
I was not delighted by the last season, but the books will come. GRRM is a good writer, they will end well.
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Post by coloradeo on Apr 7, 2019 20:04:58 GMT -8
I am primarily a Lep guy, but I usually save a few interesting beetles every year. Is there an equivalent of sorts to BAMONA, ButterfliesOfAmerica or MothPhotographersGroup I can use to ID them on my own?
Also, since I live in Colorado, anything that focuses on Colorado, the Rockies or the West?
Thanks!
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Feb 18, 2019 7:11:30 GMT -8
I use #4 for large Saturniidae, #2 for most Papilio and #1 for most other butterflies. I don’t use other sizes. Curious as to the practices of others...
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Post by coloradeo on Feb 11, 2019 21:06:41 GMT -8
Sorry, I meant where did the ova come from? I've not been able to get Speyeria ova successfully to even think about applying your hopefully very successful larvae overwintering techniques, but now I'm inspired to try! You did start from ova, right?
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Post by coloradeo on Feb 11, 2019 6:46:40 GMT -8
Wow, that’s great. How did you manage to get the ova to get to this point?
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