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Post by coleophile on Apr 8, 2016 13:04:40 GMT -8
What are people's experiences with the Insect Collector's Shop? I tried searching this forum and saw one positive and one negative comment about this guy (Michel Lapointe) in the long negative thread about Yves-Pascal Dion. But I couldn't find anything else...
Thanks
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Post by coleophile on Jan 12, 2016 14:43:11 GMT -8
Sorry - am only a couple YEARS late in replying!! I find D. sackeni in coastal sage scrub-type habitat, or chaparral, in southern Cali. Spring or summer, walking the trails. The males look like bees and fly close to the ground (at least that is what I have seen them do). It's always worth checking out what look like bees circling low to the ground - sometimes they are male mutillids.
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Post by coleophile on Dec 16, 2014 16:12:36 GMT -8
That sounds like excellent advice Chris - thanks.
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Post by coleophile on Dec 11, 2014 13:47:39 GMT -8
Can a kill jar or 3 ounces of ethyl acetate be carried-on a commercial flight? I would prefer not to have to try to mail myself things in advance of a trip to Florida I'll be making in January, and I'm also trying to avoid checking luggage.
Others' experiences/thoughts??
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Post by coleophile on Jul 18, 2014 6:12:48 GMT -8
Does anyone have experience in exchanging beetles with Dusan Farbiak from Slovakia, and if so, how did it go?
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Post by coleophile on Aug 18, 2013 15:20:51 GMT -8
Yes, in that image on the left with a bunch of unit trays, there's a male D. sackenii below two females.
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Post by coleophile on Aug 15, 2013 16:59:24 GMT -8
Thanks - D. nocturna. The males came to a black light. Here's my favorite of my various mutillids: Dasymutilla satanas.
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Post by coleophile on Aug 14, 2013 12:13:38 GMT -8
I love "interesting" flies. Here's a deer bot fly captured earlier this year.
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Post by coleophile on Aug 14, 2013 12:07:33 GMT -8
My specimens, accumulated over a few years. Mostly western U.S. species.
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Post by coleophile on Jun 19, 2011 15:57:05 GMT -8
She has a 70 mm wingspan -- so a little smaller than yours! That seems to be the max size for any of my Pepsis, including P. grossa.
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Post by coleophile on Jun 12, 2011 15:35:09 GMT -8
Here's the P. mildei female. Attachments:
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Post by coleophile on Jun 12, 2011 15:28:48 GMT -8
I am using cedar oil, after getting inspired to try it after reading some posts here.
I have dermestid larvae in my house (too many!) and none have penetrated my wooden drawers, or even my cheap cardboard storage boxes from Bioquip in the last six months or so with the cedar oil. I'm using quite a bit (a couple ml or so), squirted into course grain sawdust in a small glass receptacle (actually a votive candle holder). I see no negative effects of any kind for my insect specimens, either. I bought my cedar oil from Southwestern Cedar oil.
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Post by coleophile on Jun 12, 2011 15:14:52 GMT -8
I'm sorting through my pompilids and photographed some of my Pepsis. This is a P. mildei male from San Diego County. Attachments:
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