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Post by coloradeo on Nov 6, 2018 21:35:19 GMT -8
Well this is a bit validating in that Catocala seems hard to have everyone agree on. I really appreciate everyone’s feedback!
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 3, 2018 20:24:53 GMT -8
Thanks much !
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 3, 2018 15:03:27 GMT -8
Thanks Leroy... undersides.
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 3, 2018 12:14:05 GMT -8
And this? C ilia zoe or neogama euphemia? Caught Copper Canyon, Cochise cty AZ July 31, 2016. About 80mm. Thanks, Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 3, 2018 12:04:40 GMT -8
Both of these specimens I caught late August (2016) with bait traps in Vilas county Wisconsin (far NE Wisconsin). They are roughly 75mm and 77mm in size. I am trying to find the diagnostic to tell if they are unijuga or semirelicta (or parta). What do you guys think -- and why if you could add that? Thanks! Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Nov 1, 2018 20:41:02 GMT -8
Thanks for the sites. I have learned so much over the years from these sites and the ‘historical’ posts!
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Post by coloradeo on Oct 16, 2018 22:27:06 GMT -8
I’m not sure that I have yet to collect a rare butterfly, but perhaps (?) this moth qualifies as rare... I was delighted when I caught Sthenopis argenteomaculatus a few years back. You all on the site helped me ID it. Appreciated that as I had not happened upon ghost moths as of yet.
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Post by coloradeo on Oct 15, 2018 17:16:11 GMT -8
I was 12 or 13 when I started collecting, in 7th grade science. My first specimens is from 1985. I started black lighting each summer after that... how lights have improved since then! Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Sept 20, 2018 18:47:48 GMT -8
Occasionally I will remount a specimen that a wing or wings has drooped or shifts for whatever reason. I relax the specimen, pin and all. When I remove the specimen from the relaxer, I replace the pin. To prevent a spinner, I lick the pin. When you mount fresh specimens, the body juices/fluids will secure the specimen to the pin. I have licked pins longer than most of you have been alive. And "NO", I have never swallowed one. Someday someone will DNA sample one of your specimens and be pretty confused when the genetics show a hybrid they've never seen before -- a moth crossed with a waffle!
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Post by coloradeo on Sept 5, 2018 18:05:09 GMT -8
Matt, how did you do at the house with the blacklight (bucket?) trap?
Enjoyed collecting with you in AZ a few years back. Glad you've made it down consistently. I'd sure like to hit next year too... we'll see.
Thanks all for this thread.
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Aug 24, 2018 20:39:04 GMT -8
Very impressive Mike!
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Post by coloradeo on Aug 22, 2018 20:02:55 GMT -8
I collected Habrosyne gloriosa in Southern Wisconsin this year, a member of Drepanidae.
Weird drop off in Catocala for me over the past two weeks. I have only seen one. Wondering if I have bad bait or what I am doing wrong as last year at this time I was chasing away C a matrix.
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Post by coloradeo on Aug 1, 2018 20:12:57 GMT -8
Agreed thanks much! Hoping we just keep it rotating... love to see a round 2!
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 31, 2018 20:18:31 GMT -8
Good luck with them. I reared a bunch on Lilac one year with good success.
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 31, 2018 17:15:26 GMT -8
I thought I'd read something about this... found it... According to Tuskes/Tuttle/Collins in Wild Silk Moths of NA (p193), "Although obtaining livestock is relatively easy, maintaining laboratory stock can be problematic. Eclosion of adults from wild-collected cocoons is notoriously difficult to synchronize; the adults may emerge over a period of several years."
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