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Post by bluemoth on Aug 25, 2011 15:59:25 GMT -8
Thank you Billgarth for your advice on emailing inspectors. It sounds like a good idea to save a copy of all emails to cover your self in case of truble. I am glad to hear there are some nice inspectors out there. I tipicaly wait to get exsotic things second hand when some one els inports them in to the US. But I am thinking it would be nice to get the exotics directly. Then I will not miss out on getting some thing very nice in a mix of insects that a collector that inports might keep. I know lots of cool stuff has come in to the hands of those that get permits to import. If I get a bunch of extra spending money I will have to get a permit. I can imagin getting a mix of unidentified leps or other bugs from some exsotic location. What fun!
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Post by bluemoth on Aug 19, 2011 10:19:03 GMT -8
Thank you folks for all the advise. I fugue my friend may have read this stream by now to seance I have not herd any thing from them. Poor friend had such a good thing going there with that other permit. I bet they are pretty scared now.
What If I can become a volunteer for a place of scientific study and can be co signed on to such a permit. Is this even possible? Could this work?
Guess if the above dos not work I have to find some folks with the correct permit and see if they would export and import for me if I share insects with them.
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Post by bluemoth on Aug 16, 2011 8:26:58 GMT -8
So I met a new friend just recently. I was surprised to hear he had never had to get those expensive FW permits needed to import or export to and from foreign countries. How was this I asked? Well this person just gets some sheet from the USDA that he attaches to his box that says specimens for scientific research. The box then gets inspected at the airport by regular customs, not FW hired folks. If all is OK then it is sent on its way. He warned this dos not work with all counties and not to put sertin kinds of insects in boxes. So here is a possible loop hole to avoid the huge fees of FW permitted shipments. I must get more specific details from him about this and will post them here because I know many of you will have questions about this. My friend has never had trouble importing or exporting with this method. No dowt this will open foreign trading doors once closed to many of us!
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Post by bluemoth on Aug 14, 2011 19:39:45 GMT -8
Second eaglet confermed out of egg shell Sunady, the 14th, evening at 8:27 west US time. Parents stood up off egg anuff times to see egg was hatching very quickly. We can now watch as these two youg eaglets grow and fledge over the next months.
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Post by bluemoth on Aug 14, 2011 12:20:10 GMT -8
The first eagle egg hatched with a healthy eaglet. Second egg due to hatch on the 15th. But there is a spot on second egg now that may be a pip. Camera operater will conferm weather or not it is a pip later this afternoon when they zoom the vew in close. So keep watching the eagles for new updates in the chat box by the moderaters.
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Post by bluemoth on Aug 13, 2011 11:35:07 GMT -8
Looking at my book of butterfly caterpillars of the US I beleave you found a Red Spotted Purple larva ( limenitis arthemis ). The skin under the black horns on the larva is light tan not white as in the Viceroy larva.
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Post by bluemoth on Aug 13, 2011 6:46:32 GMT -8
In case some of you like to watch birds the first Sea Eagle egg is pipping on the Sea Eagle cam on Ustream. Pipping means the chick has made a small hole in the egg with it's egg tooth at the tip of its beak. Over the next hours chick will slowly make crack around circumference of egg and then push out. The Eagles are in Australia and chicks have hatched at 7 AM Australian time in the past. If you are in the western US this means hatch will occur around 2 PM US time. When you get to Ustream look for the picture of the white and gray sea eagles at top of page and click on it.
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Post by bluemoth on Aug 10, 2011 18:41:05 GMT -8
Thanks to a collecting friend that lives in Florida I have just been made aware of a new law in Florida to protect the Miami Blue Butterfly. It is now illegal to collect the fallowing Blues to prevent accidental collection of a Miami Blue : Cassius Blue, Nickerbean Blue and Ceraunus Blue. None of these three Blues have similar under wing markings of the Miami. In my opinion they could not be confused for a Miami Blue. This seems like another case of gone over board by fish and game. What are your thoughts folks? us.vocuspr.com/ Newsroom/ Query.aspx? article title - Fish and Wildlife List Miami Blue Butterfly As Endangered
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Post by bluemoth on Aug 1, 2011 16:27:33 GMT -8
Seems to match the Long Dash - Polites mystic in my butterfly book.
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Post by bluemoth on Aug 1, 2011 9:02:21 GMT -8
Well from what I have herd a 100 species of living things gos extinct each year. With humans now at 7 billion on the planet and growing the number of extinctions will increase no doubt. All the typical things that go along with a growing human population will cause more habitat loss - deforestation, bulldozing untouched land to build more houses, towns, cities and roads. Lots more pollution to. Although we think we are getting a less polluted environment from enforcing pollution standards the increase of cars and industry needed for growing populations may make it worse. As for living creatures they will often be forgotten as so many times folks want to make money in construction or some other biasness in stead of saving a few accors of pristine butterfly habitat. Read a story once about such a place. A biasness man took lunch brakes out side next to an empty plot of land full of weeds. As weeks passed he became more interested in the wide verity of butterflies fling there that he had never payed attention to before. Then one day he found this butterfly Paradise torn up by bulldozers for construction of a new biasness. Very sad indeed. I do believe extinctions well increase in numbers as humanity takes over this planet. Yes if the planet continues the way it is now there will be many less species in 500 years.
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Post by bluemoth on Jul 30, 2011 17:00:06 GMT -8
So went looking for California Sisters ( Adelpha bredowii ) in the mountains in Santa Cruz County CA July 30. Only just a few starting to fly at this time. Saw about 4 very high up in the branches. Along the trail ( an area by a closed School on rout 9 ) I saw some little orange skippers, might have been pale marked Rural ( Ochiodes agricola ). Also a nice sighting of a endangered Dun Skipper ( Euphyes vestris ). Makes sence they would be there sence sedge the host plant is around and lots of thistle for nectar. Also seen were 2 Gold Hunters Hairstreaks ( Satyrium auretorum ), 7 or so Acmon Blues ( Plebejus acmon, 3 or so unditermined smaller blues - Lupin Blue may be?, 9+ common Buckeye ( Junonia coenia ), 7 Common Wood Nymph ( Ceryonis pegala ), 8+ Common Ringlets ( Coenonympha tullia ), and nice to see at least 4 Ctenucha moths. I trided to catch those moths but they are very fast and smart. I was surprised that with all the thistles in bloom there were not many butterflies comming to them exsept the little orange Skippers. A bit disupointing.
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Post by bluemoth on Jul 26, 2011 15:59:27 GMT -8
Yes you are right it is a sphinx larva. I did a quick serch and came up with the following posible species for canada that fly late July and into August if the pupa dos not go dorment.
(1) Spinx canadensis, host plants ash, blueberry (2)Lintneria eremitus, host plants lycopus, mentha, monarda, salvia (3)Sphinx perelegans, host plants arctostapbylos, arbutus, prunus, cercocarpus
You may want to try pine in case it is one of the pine eaters to. Put a bunch of leaves with larva and see what ones it likes.
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Post by bluemoth on Jul 20, 2011 13:26:46 GMT -8
I was able to find some of your moths in my book Moths of Eastern North America. On your first post the 4th photo is a male Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar). On the second post 2nd photo is Wheat Head Army Warm (Faronta diffusa), 5th photo is Yellow Headed Cutworm (Apamea amputatrix). If you would like to try identifing the other moths your self go to web site Moth photografers group. But if I have time I will try to ID the rest for you. I wish you luck with your artical. I am glad you are giving moths some attention when butterflies seem to get it all.
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Post by bluemoth on Jul 20, 2011 12:55:00 GMT -8
I did not know folks were still interested in what happened to the Sticks. Sadly all hatchlings died. Each one that learned to eat the leaves thrived for about 4 or 5 days. Then sadly each baby started to fail. They started to be un able to walk or eat and became what appeared to be paralised over 3 or 4 days. All eventuly died. My best guess as to the cause could be a fungus or bacterea that was on the tree leaves may be the cause of death. The area I live in is not in thier native range so they had no natural resistence to fungus or bactearea that lives here. Do not remember the name but they were the largest native sticks of the USA.
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Post by bluemoth on Jul 20, 2011 7:45:42 GMT -8
All you wasp lovers out there may realy like this ustream live cam of a wasp nest : Think I saw a worker lay an egg. Is this normal behavyor for wasps? Who knows what species these are? Wonder if the person who put up the camera got stung?
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