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Post by leptraps on Jul 15, 2012 20:57:38 GMT -8
We are currently on a 5 week collecting trip to Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and back to Colorado for the Lepidopterists Society Annual Meeting. We spent several days at Horseshoe Mountain in Park County, Colorado. We set out five 15 Watt Black Light Traps at 12, 056'. The temperature dropped to 48 degrees. When we collected the traps the following morning, we had several thousand moths and not a single beetle. Although most were Noctuids, we had some Geometrids and a few Pyralids. Tonight, Sunday 15 July, we have 5 Light Traps on Leidy's Peak in Dagget County, Utah at 12,000+ feet. We will be here for two more nights before traveling to Park City, Utah to collect on Guardsman Pass and Bountiful Peak. Also, the butterflies have been fabulous. We are having a great trip. Attachments:
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Post by Chris Grinter on Jul 15, 2012 21:37:52 GMT -8
I came to love high elevation collecting! Some of my rarest insects came from ~12,000' in the Sierras. Best of luck and enjoy the meeting, I sadly can't make it out there this year.
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Post by rayrard on Jul 15, 2012 22:24:56 GMT -8
I'd love to be able to go to the Lep Society meeting and do some high altitude collecting. I experienced a little of it a couple years back in Colorado and I am itching to get back and hit it hard.
I only got O. uhleri and the Common Erebia, and a single C. scudderi, but missed out on all the other high altitude nymphalids and Parnassius.
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Post by vgashtarov on Dec 25, 2013 10:16:58 GMT -8
We are currently on a 5 week collecting trip to Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and back to Colorado for the Lepidopterists Society Annual Meeting. We spent several days at Horseshoe Mountain in Park County, Colorado. We set out five 15 Watt Black Light Traps at 12, 056'. The temperature dropped to 48 degrees. When we collected the traps the following morning, we had several thousand moths and not a single beetle. Although most were Noctuids, we had some Geometrids and a few Pyralids. Tonight, Sunday 15 July, we have 5 Light Traps on Leidy's Peak in Dagget County, Utah at 12,000+ feet. We will be here for two more nights before traveling to Park City, Utah to collect on Guardsman Pass and Bountiful Peak. Also, the butterflies have been fabulous. We are having a great trip. Please attach some pictures of the moths that are flying so high. Here in the Bolcan peninsula one of the most interesting records come from high altitude places. |
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Post by leptraps on Jan 1, 2014 18:15:10 GMT -8
I have been rather busy with the holidays and have finally had the opportunity to photograph some of my specimens from an elevation 11,000 feet and above. Below is one of the most difficult moths to collect. Grammia cervinoides. It flies above 10,000 feet. I have collected 5 specimens to date. I have found two specimens on Rollins Pass, Grand County, CO Elv. 12,312', one specimen, Cottonwood Pass, Chaffee County, CO Elv. 12,126', and two specimens Horse Shoe Mountain, Park County, CO Elv. 11,992' I collected three in light traps and the two from Horse Shoe Mountain I collected during the day on flowers. I have visited Colorado 26 time and have trapped moths above 10,000' with four light traps well over 50 times, and five Grammia cervinoides is all I have managed to collect. Has anyone else collected this little Arctiid moth?  |
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