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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 15, 2021 11:12:02 GMT -8
Really unbelievable how many spp. & how early Catocala moths appear in the states! I was quite surprised to find my 1st Underwing of 2021 (a male C. unijuga) in one of my light traps (1,000w M.V.) yesterday, 14 July. Today 15th July 3 more male C. unijuga showed up in my traps.
As in the western/southern U.S. weather conditions here in central, eastern Sask. are incredibly hot & dry. Temps. the last 3+ weeks range from +30 to +37 C (86 to 99 F). While this pales in comparison to temps. in the U.S (117 F in Vegas, 120 F in Death Valley!!) these temps, are still too, too hot for us. Forest fires are breaking out all over our north (as in the states & W. Canada as well)… skies are blue with a smoke... scary situation... Farmers crops are burning up in the heat... higher yet food prices to come. Last major drought up here was in 2002.
John K.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 15, 2021 10:44:32 GMT -8
Yorky, I agree 100% with your comments about L.K. laughing in our collective faces. I want to remind all of you of Koehn's extremely arrogant, self serving attitude toward other Insectnet members, former unhappy customers, & this website. On 24 Nov. 2020 he opened a thread entitled "Leroy C. Koehn, AKA Leptraps" Following are HIS own comments:
"It seems to me that whenever I post on certain topics, I draw some flack/fire/criticism from other members/participants.
Here is a piece of advice from me to all of you who dislike what I post and or what I do. If you do not like what I write and or what I post here on Insectnet. Just "Block" me. Works every time.
I only post about my field activities these days. I no longer post photographs of my collection nor do I discuss my collection as I have been called a "braggart"."
Koehn's following line is particularily galling... (in bold type mine, J. Kozial)... "I personally do not give a "Rat's Ass" what some of you think about me."
This guy has said many, many times (lost count!),in the last year, that he was DONE COMPLETELY with Insectnet.com (he has better things to do he says...haha)... only to reappear 1-2 weeks or even a few days/hours later & carries on like nothing is wrong/everything is just peachy!... & now he is advertising ON THIS SITE the sale of his business!!… what nerve!! He has been trying to sell his business for at least 4 years now advertising continuously (& unsuccessfully) at the "News of the Lep. Soc." newsletter. AND, he will never repay me as he despises/loathes me for exposing him as the real thief amongst us.
Leroy if you feel like such an outcast on this site & still won't leave (soooo much self-pity/always the victim/ blames everyone else for problems, etc., etc.!) hopefully the owner of this site will carry through with his promise of barring you forever, as a scammer, come 01 August.
John K.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 15, 2021 9:55:47 GMT -8
Hello again Beetle Enthusiasts,
A heads up...just got an email from Pemberley Books (Eng.). A.V. Evans new volume, the most welcome "Beetles of Western N. Am." will become available in Aug. 2021. It is available for preorder now at Pemberley, but should be widely available online everywhere by then. Book is same format as Eastern Beetles with 1,500 illustrations. Can't wait to get a copy!
John K.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 3, 2021 12:21:34 GMT -8
Why am I not surprised?? Koehn still hasn't resolved the black light fiasco (a thief in our midst forum thread thankfully shut down last year) that HE STARTED WITH ME last year (March '20 - July '21 - almost a year & a half ago). Same situation with me... delays/jerks you around for months, never pays/refunds your money, then cuts off all contact. I warned everyone about this character last year.... BEWARE...
If Leptraps responds to this comment & tries to start up another fight with me again...Please moderators... SHUT HIM DOWN AT ONCE. Everything was detailed by myself in laborious detail last year & I'm not going over it again. Have had no further contact with Koehn from last August 2020.
Koehn should be banned from this site until & only after he refunds money owed to past disgruntled customers!
John K.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Mar 19, 2021 13:22:14 GMT -8
Hey Paul,
Take heart...spring is coming in our northern Canadian climes! Today, 19 March, was the warmest day of the year at +9 C here in central, NE Saskatchewan. I saw my 1st butterfly of the year in my yard... the tough little Milbert's Tortoise shell (Nymphalis mil berti), a common winter hibernator. Still lots of snow around though. Another sign of spring here.. Canada Geese (8 to date) & a Bald Eagle (local P.O. ladies sighting) began showing up around 14 March. Forecast is nice warmer weather, for next 2 weeks... it's been a l-o-n-g winter... finally spring...Yeehaw!
John K.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Feb 7, 2021 9:16:27 GMT -8
Low here in NE Sask., CANADA -36.2 C (= -33 F) @ 8:30 am this morning. Temp. now @ 11:00 am -33.5 C (= -29 F). NOW THAT"S WHAT YOU CAN CALL COLD!... HaaHaa... Forecast in mid -30's C nighttime & -25 to -30 C daytime temps for next week. Polar vortex is slipping south...
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 20, 2020 9:36:07 GMT -8
Returning your 2 junk lights (Yet again at my expense?? are a dead issue) by your own words posted earlier: "Just keep it all. I do not want it back, I will no longer respond to your emails & posts. And if you send anything back, I will return it & the USPS will ship it back to you"
At this point, almost 5 months after it started, you have made ZERO EFFORTS to solve this "travesty" All you do is TALK... & NO ACTION (refund). Following are the 2 possibilities to solve this problem:
1.) My solution (the easiest, fastest way)... pay me ASAP, via Paypal, the $314.95 USD. This amount already includes the $77.00 USD ($105.63 CAD) I pd. upfront to return the 2 defective units (you refused to pay me any return shipping costs). So easy & this bad deal is done.
2.) Your solution.. if you really want units returned (slowest, impractical & most expensive to you). You just said you will repay me all costs for original item & shipment, PLUS ALL NEW SHIPPING COSTS. Okay then... let's add up YOUR potential total future costs: $314.95 USD + $77.00 USD I will still need to pay USPS for return shipping when I finally (don't have it yet) get the package back = $391.95 USD. Now add on yet another $77.00 USD to resend (for the 2nd bloody time!) the package back to you... GRAND TOTAL OF = $468.95 USD (= $633.00 CAD!).
You have given every indication, by your severely conflicting posts & lies, that you cannot be trusted. I don't believe if you, by now, have not made any effort to refund my option #1 amount of $314.95 USD... then sure as hell you aren't going to refund me option #2 in the amount of $468.95 USD!!! You are continuously giving me the runaround in hopes I will just give up & go away. Sorry Buddy... you are trying to screw with a CANADIAN PITBULL who will NEVER let this slide. If it takes the same number of pages, on this thread as "War & Peace", to get through your thick skull, the reality of this absurd situation... so be it. I will not relent. Again you have made, & continue to make, a complete fool of yourself & your business before the entire worldwide insect collecting community... & all over a single little collecting light! You are just so incredibly greedy LEROY C. KOEHN!
Take a look in the mirror Leroy ... you started this public "travesty thread" with false accusations of me being a THIEF (with ZERO proof).... only you have the power to end it. I am, for the 4th time at least, asking you to PLEASE repay me with option #1 the $314.98 USD. If you still refuse then go ahead & pay me option # 2... $468.95 USD. So simple... Your choice... but whatever you do.... for God's sake DO SOMETHING!
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 19, 2020 15:00:07 GMT -8
Cat59,
Believe it, or not, I am a former customer. I ordered similar equipment from Leptraps about 4 years ago.. was also a silly mistake/mix up, but he quickly, without any fuss (unlike now!), remedied the situation. His lights were/still are every expensive, but were good...at least at that time. Quality, & epecially customer service, unfortunately, has gone rapidly downhill since then. I will never buy from him again because he recently stole over $300.00 USD (+$400.00 CAD) from me & refuses a refund. All he has to do is refund my money... very simple solution & this bull#### thread disappears...
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 19, 2020 11:06:45 GMT -8
Very well put Trehopr! You & I & many other "silent majority" members (who are afraid to get involved...) feel this way! I wanted the moderators to banish this "rogue"from this site a while ago. He is giving all of us a bad name... even this website.
Funny/odd how this questionable businessman said he was leaving Insectnet.com as of 06 July?.Really?He wad still here yesterday. His tearful reason for leaving... all of the friends he thought he had on this site never supported him in his false THIEF allegations!
I was also accused, by this "rogue", of wanting to be in the "spotlight"... I have just over 300 (all insect related) posts... he has almost 2,000. He might be the most prolific poster ever on this site! A good percentage, as you said Trehopr1, are complete garbage that should be posted on a lonely hearts/sex site. I think these forums are, sadly, his only social outlet.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 19, 2020 8:18:35 GMT -8
Right on Jan!... Thank you for your understanding about completely inappropriate personal postings.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 18, 2020 12:30:52 GMT -8
& there you have it! L.K., keep up this ridiculous "circle of conflict"... Hope you're proud... now even Trehopr1 is now bailing out... nobody & I mean nobody can talk any sense into you. God help you! You are absolutely pathetic...
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 18, 2020 12:22:56 GMT -8
Leroy. C. Koehn...Please, please, please stop posting completely irrational & nonsensical comments... do you not realize the damage you are doing to yourself & your business?
Exoticimports bailed out on you 16 July 2020 (2 days ago)… @ 10:24 am he said "I want no further part of this drama. Good luck to both of you". Do you actually read any other people's postings on this thread?.... do you not remember/comprehend any of them?
Your own words posted here 15 July, 2020 @ 8:24 pm (3 days ago), "Just keep it all. I do not want it back, I will no longer respond to your emails & posts. And if you send anything back, I will refuse it & the USPS will ship it back to you"
It is readily apparent by this time that you L.K. are your own worst enemy. Someone has to say it... You are making a complete fool of yourself before the entire worldwide insect collecting community... & sadly you don't even realize the damage you are doing in tarnishing your own name & business... so sad.
Exoticimports bailed out on you 2 days ago & wants nothing further to do with this "travesty". Trehopr1 stood up & offered a SECOND very sensible solution... which I accepted... What's the problem, yet again, with you?? Do you think you can change your mind every 2 minutes, every 2 hours, every 2 days & expect myself to gleefully go along?? How stupid & gullible do you think I am??
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 17, 2020 12:39:27 GMT -8
Hello Trehopr1,
My sincerest THANKS for your generous offer to act as a new financial intermediary. Sounds like a fair & equitable solution to me... I will certainly agree with it.. what other choice/option do I really have? I also thought L.K. was finally willing to repay me fully through Chuck, but backed off yet again... I was, again, so very disappointed.
To be absolutely clear Leroy owes me $314.95 USD (=$427.80 CAD according to xe.com site right now; 1 USD = $1.35830 CAD). I will ONLY, as the falsely accused, allow this entire absurd thread to be deleted, by Leroy, after I have the full amount safely in hand. Whatever form the money comes in... (no money orders... a nightmare to cash up here), it must be easily cashable in CANADA... in either USD or CAD funds... Leroy's choice.
This whole snail mail process may take several weeks/month but I have been waiting a long time for this so it doesn't really matter anymore to me... I want this matter to be finally over as quickly as possible... we all have much better things to do than bash each other over the head over a silly collecting light! Again THANK YOU Trehopr1.
J.K.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 17, 2020 8:02:52 GMT -8
I wrote "Return to sender for Refund".
From my point of view... I'm a Canadian, in a neibouring/foreign country, returning defective items to an American in the U.S.... why would I want the defective items returned to me... for Refund?? If the USPS/Koehn/yourself misinterperated my message so be it. L.K. also had it within his power to reroute the package (as you instructed him). This is, at this point, a completely irrelevant issue. By Koehn's own words quoted above it is readily apparent that if even if I would be stupid enough to resend the package back to him a 2nd time (with Return to L.C. Koehn for Refund written on it), again at my own expense.. he will yet again reject it. Again he has never EVER had any intentions to refund my money.
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Post by boghaunter1 on Jul 17, 2020 7:02:07 GMT -8
I have done everything in my power to bring this "circle of conflict" to an end... including trying to return his defective items at my own expense. What has Koehn done to try to bring this "travesty" to and end?? ANSWER...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
How do you negotiate with a man who on this very thread, at 8:28pm, on 15 July (just 2 days ago), posted this, "Just keep it all. I do not want it back. I will no longer respond to your emails & posts. And if you send anything back I will refuse it & the USPS will ship it back to you."??
It is completely obvious Koehn has NEVER had any intentions to refund my money...EVER... This is more than a simple commerce problem. Koehn has slandered me personally, online, by calling me out as a THIEF, with ZERO evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on my part. If he is truly the bigger man he would immediately refund my money & issue me a personal apology right here on this forum. Of course...this will never happen. I'm at a complete deadend/deadlock... as Trehopr1 said, you can't move a mountain.
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