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Post by coloradeo on Feb 5, 2019 21:26:43 GMT -8
Do you have any species labeled “The New World”?
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Post by coloradeo on Jan 7, 2019 22:26:49 GMT -8
It could be Protoboarmia porcelaria, a Geometrid. It looks more brown in your photo than the typical gray coloration of this moth, but I suspect that is lighting. Not certain, but that's my guess. Let me know what you think.
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jan 7, 2019 22:17:42 GMT -8
Ha, you're right of course. I was moving too fast and didn't double check those.
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Post by coloradeo on Jan 6, 2019 20:27:28 GMT -8
Thanks for sharing. Keep putting more out there Leroy. I wish I had drawers of them. Here's some more Grammia/Apantesis. Clockwise from Left to Right Tray 1 - Pyrrharctia isabella from Wisconsin Tray 2 - Yellow and Red forms of Apantesis f-pallida from Colorado Tray 3 Column 1 - Apantesis carlotta (Colorado) Column 2 a. Apantesis incorrupta b. Grammia phyllira (Colorado) c. Grammia phyllira (Wisconsin) d. Apantesis phalerata (Wisconsin) e. Apantesis phalerata (Wisconsin) Tray 4 - Dark and colored forms of Apantesis williamsii from Colorado Tray5 - Apantesis parthenice from Wisconsin and Colorado
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Post by coloradeo on Jan 3, 2019 21:16:55 GMT -8
These are mostly Western/SW Arctiidae from either Colorado, Utah or Arizona, but there are a few from Northern Wisconsin mixed in. I wish I'd caught the A citra or the A aulaea, but those were a nice gift which is nice just the same. The female D howardii is my favorite from a nice night at Copper Canyon, AZ. I caught most of the D howardii in this box but a few were raised from ova -- the smaller ones, maybe they did not like my organic lettuce?. Would you believe of the 5-6 ova that made it all the way through to adult that none were female! I wonder if the rearing was not nutritious enough to yield a female howardii. It was a great year for Arctia (Platarctia) parthenos in the Boulder, CO area; I locked into many over a couple week period. I have been told they take two years to reach adult stage in Colorado and that Even years they can be plentiful. I did not catch any last year and did the year before, but I'm not sure that proves the point as I moved around in collecting spots a bit. Loved seeing them fly into my sheet, never before 11:30PM, but between 11:30 and 12:30 when I would typically pack up I would see them most nights I was out in one of my favorite canyons. I have another set of Apantesis/Grammia -- but really only started to get more types this year before I realized how many types there are out here. Next year that will be a deeper focus for sure. If anyone is interested in (mostly) Western Apantesis let me know and I'll post that set too. Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Dec 30, 2018 11:22:54 GMT -8
This box is all Speyeria (and friends) that I have caught with perhaps one exception. Everything right of the first column is from Colorado, with one Wyoming exception, I have spend hours IDing them, but would welcome some critical review as I love Western Speyeria but I am also going a little nuts trying to find all the ID points. Further, 90% of these are from Boulder or Gilpin counties. If anyone wants to see an underside, let me know -- clearly that is more diagnostic. Thanks! Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Dec 30, 2018 11:17:00 GMT -8
I was just organizing my Speyeria drawers this week over 'winter break'. Hopefully Leroy won't mind me adding to the Speyeria thread with a share or two. Leroy, your collection is fantastic! This box includes some stuff I have acquired or traded for and a some that I've caught. I'd love to travel East and catch more of these myself over the years. Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Dec 23, 2018 9:16:31 GMT -8
I had the opportunity to travel to Sanibel, FL, an island just off the coast in Lee county, the week of November 17 to November 24 and did a bit of "passive" moth surveying with traps out each night, but mostly spent time on the beach; here's a quick report. I used both UV buckets and bait traps. The bucket traps had very little “small stuff” in them, in fact they were mostly empty every day unlike when I collect in summer in Colorado – was a bit surprised at this. However, the UV lights did attract Automeris io every night and some sphinx. The last couple years I have seen Eacles imperialis once each trip and many A io. I mostly struck out in the bait traps despite prepping bait at home and then freezing it to take to Florida, but did catch one beautiful Ascalapha odorata (which Leroy had told me I’d catch – you were right indeed!). I collected at flowers at dusk and found both Aellopos tantalus and Cautethia grotei, which appear relatively limited to Florida in distribution, so that’s fun for a Colorado guy. Fun finds in (or more usually near) the UV buckets were two Protambulyx strigilis which again are not something I’ll stumble across in the West. Also caught several slightly rough E. ello, and two female Automeris io – had not caught females in the prior year, but I was better equipped this year too. Here’s the list of what I have identified so far. I have some less charismatic moths yet in the freezer that I’ll ID and process later this winter. - Automeris io – very common, with at least one male every night (UV bucket), sometimes several – these seemed less “orange” than last year’s males; two females - Eacles imperialis – one male at UV bucket - Ascalapha odorata – one black witch with a bait trap - Aellopos tantalus – common at dusk visiting flowers during first half of the trip - Cautethia grotei – common at dusk visiting flowers; also in UV bucket - Enyo lugubris – common at dusk visiting flowers; pretty sure of this ID, but needs one more review after I get them off the board - Erinnyis ello – several attracted to UV bucket - Protambulyx strigilis – two at UV bucket, one A-, one a little rough - and a few more mixed moths, but yet to be ID'd -- was kind of hoping for more volume than I got in my daily buckets Bucket setupA. tantalusP strigilisAutomeris io FemaleE. lugubris -- right?
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 25, 2018 9:58:12 GMT -8
Happy to help. Thanks for the forum Olivier!
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 21, 2018 20:50:42 GMT -8
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 21, 2018 19:31:05 GMT -8
I am finding wisdom in the post above and have been interacting with others that use trays as well. However, all of the drawers I have ordered to date have foam bottoms.
Given that the drawers I have purchased in the past from Bioquip have the plastazote foam bottom, can I still order the unit trays with a foam bottom and place that over the top of them? Will the height or something else cause a problem? From their website, it seems like the measurements work with the inner dimensions.
Thanks for the advice.
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 12, 2018 15:12:28 GMT -8
Wow, great info all! Thanks
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 11, 2018 12:20:55 GMT -8
My Catocala Summary for 2018 Well I had to shovel a second time for the year today so I thought I'd come back to this thread and provide an update on how my Catocala season went this year. This year I had one or two bait traps out in my suburban Colorado backyard nearly every day from July 15 to September 17. I have a bird feeder contraption from WBU that hangs high enough so the raccoons can't get to it and has two hooks. Around July I take down the bird feeders and replace them with bait traps. I ended up "specializing" in an area that included just my backyard this year . I caught a good haul of Catocala, which ended up falling into 5 species and a couple forms. This year my backyard checklist added a species or two, so that was fun. In order of appearance with some date ranges that probably extend beyond what I have noted here, but as I have not spread and ID'd even half of of the Catocala in my freezer yet the dates may just be correct on the front part of the date range noted below. My backyard borders some open space that has cottonwood trees and most yards have aspen trees, so I think many of the species below are probably feeders on those. -- Catocala ultronia, July 15-20 -- Catocala amestris, July 18-20 [new species for me here] -- Catocala junctura, starting July 22 -- Catocala hermia starting August 7 [super abundant every year in my backyard] -- Catocala amatrix, around August 25 and onward [both normal and "selecta" forms... mostly "selecta" as normal seems less common in my backyard but "selecta" is common]; probably if I look back these fly earlier. One thing I will do next year is start earlier. I'm not sure I would have found the small hatching and tight window for C amestris if I had not gotten my bait traps out a week or two earlier this year. I also had a bad spell where I think my bait was bad and I missed a couple weeks while I was experimenting with that. Lastly, if I see anything different as I work through the freezer this winter I'll update this post. From prior years I have noted Catocala luciana, grotiana and semirelicta in my immediate neighborhood so it will be interesting to see if I caught any of those this year, but just have not spread/ID'd them yet. Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 11, 2018 10:42:09 GMT -8
As I look down the checklist of sphingidae that I have managed to collect to date, I have little to nothing in the way of the clearwing/hummingbird moths. Have you tips on how to catch them, or better yet, lure them? Since they don't come to UV/MV from what I can tell I have not figured these out.
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 9, 2018 15:05:15 GMT -8
I shoveled for the first time a few weeks ago in Colorado. Since then it's been between 70 and 35 on any given day... If it weren't for a trip to Florida in a bit I'd have to hang up the net until spring.
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