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Post by coloradeo on Jul 29, 2018 21:28:02 GMT -8
Of course, but I am trying to load it into my database like the Hodges's numbers. Right now when I enter the specimen data I have to look each one up with Control-F. Also for label generation.
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 29, 2018 15:03:53 GMT -8
Does anyone have a CSV or XLS doc of the new Pohl checklist? I have some Excel lookups that get me most of the Hodges numbers, but the new list appears just in PDF from what I can tell so it's a manual lookup.
Thanks,
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 26, 2018 4:41:26 GMT -8
So there has been a lot of good discussion over the years on this site about collecting in SE Arizona. South Texas is good and has some unique stuff too, right? Maybe not the same stuff coming off the Sonoran desert, but still there are some Rothschildia moths that appear to be only in South Texas and probably some other good collecting in other parts of Texas, especially West Texas. Also, what about the Austin and/or Houston area?
Where are the major areas to collect in Texas? Can you actually do it or are there no "open collecting areas" like the National Forest land in AZ? Can you actually show up and collect near Brownsville? Love to start a thread with discussion about where you can/should collect in Texas. Any takers?
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 20, 2018 20:58:42 GMT -8
Catching what look like C amestris now in my backyard traps too. So far just ultronia and amestris though.
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 15, 2018 11:00:58 GMT -8
The Catocala season is beginning in Colorado too. I've had one of my bait traps, a new slotted LepTrap, out in the backyard for a few nights and last night caught a small solo C ultronia.
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 12, 2018 20:23:44 GMT -8
Chuck, I collected in Wisconsin last week and caught two "catocala like" speciimens with yellow "squiggly line" underwings I have also not had a chance to look up. Curious what you find. Also got a Polyphemus, several sphinx species and a bunch of tigers -- and more mosquitoes than the world should be allowed to have! Eric Post script to my note above... Pulled the "catocala like" specimens off the board tonight... they were Euparthenos nubilis... curiously they are not noted from Wisconsin on MPG, but with some deeper digging, the Checklist of Wisconsin Moths (Ferge et al) says they are found throughout all regions. Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 5, 2018 0:28:27 GMT -8
I've caught many down the way in Colorado this year. I had someone tell me they are common every two years and this would be a big year for them here... and it has been for me. Has anyone else heard that they run in two year cycles?
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 4, 2018 8:00:30 GMT -8
Did you end up getting what you needed?
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Post by coloradeo on Jul 4, 2018 7:42:13 GMT -8
Please do keep us updated about you your findings. I think there are a lot of us who would love to see the season through your eyes.
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Post by coloradeo on Jun 21, 2018 18:08:33 GMT -8
John the box will be at your place Monday according to USPS.
Thanks Chuck... I took out a few Mexican saturniids you had placed in there along with a few sphingids and speyeria. Put back in much of the same from Colorado and Utah, most of which is labelled and identified to the best of my abilities. Fun to have "YES" up and running again! Nice work Chuck.
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jun 17, 2018 21:34:56 GMT -8
Got the box! Thanks Chuck! Nice selection. I will have it back out Tuesday or Wednesday with some stuff I've caught in the past year from Colorado, pretty fresh. - Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jun 14, 2018 22:01:10 GMT -8
Ok, I get it. The pressure is on! Thanks for the honor of going first Chuck. JHyatt send me a PM if you can think of anything from the Rockies (or AZ) you're particularly interested in and I'll see if I have it.
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jun 13, 2018 21:44:58 GMT -8
Chuck, I collected in Wisconsin last week and caught two "catocala like" speciimens with yellow "squiggly line" underwings I have also not had a chance to look up. Curious what you find. Also got a Polyphemus, several sphinx species and a bunch of tigers -- and more mosquitoes than the world should be allowed to have!
Eric
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Post by coloradeo on Jun 6, 2018 19:24:26 GMT -8
I haven't had time yet to get to lycaenids and skippers... I will someday and hopefully before I retire, but not there yet.
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Post by coloradeo on Jun 4, 2018 21:20:34 GMT -8
I've been out a couple nights with lights/sheets and bucket traps on the NW side of the Denver metro (Boulder Canyon) and the SW side (Deer Creek Canyon). Seems like it's a couple weeks from "really good collecting," but so far some of my favorites --
NW, May 25 - dominated by pine and non-oak deciduous, warm evening - lots of Coloradia doris, as is usual early season, but this time I finally got that female - Arachnis picta, including a female - Apantesis williamsii
SW, June 2 - lots of oak and deciduous, cool evening with some wind - Pachysphinx modesta (or occidentalis -- I'll have to get it off the mounting board to examine it more closely, but seems a little smaller and I think I see blue through the mounting paper, so probably P/m) - Sphinx chersis - Sphinx vashti
More small stuff on the mounting board, but IDs yet to come.
Eric
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