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Post by leptraps on Nov 5, 2016 5:38:45 GMT -8
I have collected all the Skippers. I must retract that statement. There was a recently discribed Atrytonopsis from the Coastal Islands of NE North Carolina. Most of these islands are under federal or state protection. Maybe next spring.
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Post by rayrard on Nov 5, 2016 9:22:31 GMT -8
Most of the skippers of the east I have gotten. Notable absentees are the south Florida specialty species which I didn't get far enough south the catch yet.
I got Hesperia comma in NH last year and Arctic Skipper the year before. The missing species north of Florida are the Gold-banded Skipper, Cofaqui Giant Skipper, Arogos Skipper, Hayhurst's Scallopwing, and the Appalachian Grizzled Skipper. There are the potentially extirpated ones like Persius Duskywing I also haven't found.
I have searched for all of the above. Gold-banded in western NC a few times, Cofaqui is the sandhills and piedmont of SC, Arogos in Croatan NF, Hayhurst's in coastal SC and S Jersey (where saw once but couldn't catch because NABA count), and Grizzled in Green Ridge SF. I have not been lucky enough to find or catch these species.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2017 16:11:44 GMT -8
Interesting.......on Jan. 6, 2016 I posted my desires and, oddly enough, two of them came to be. I added a Polythysania apollina to the collection and also had the dream of catching my own Catocala marmorata happen. 2016 was a fine year for collecting for me overall.
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Post by kingha on Mar 20, 2017 10:18:50 GMT -8
would like to bait for Catocala in Europe.
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Post by leptraps on Mar 20, 2017 13:08:52 GMT -8
Bait must work in Europe. I have sold lot's of bait traps to eastern Europe, and a few into Russia.
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Post by rayrard on Mar 20, 2017 16:53:17 GMT -8
I have a random list of species that I'd love to collect here in the U.S. I do quite well with eastern butterflies but I'm missing a few. Excluded are ones that are illegal to collect. Early Hairstreak (saw 2 at Greylock in 2014 but the butterfly watchers were all over the place) Colorado Hairstreak Mead's Sulphur Magdalena Alpine Hayhurst's Scallppwing (my freaking nemesis as I've looked for this multiple trips and seen it twice but failed to catch any) Golden-banded Skipper Arogos Skipper Moths: Cecropia Moth (yes, I've never caught or seen this species) Arctia caja and/or Platarctia parthenos Grammia virgo or any of the big Grammia Smerinthus sp. sphinxes Eumorpha labruscae Darapsa versicolor Hyparpax aurora (got the Florida Hyparpax species in 2014) Black Witch Hologram Moth (plusiid) Catocala sappho Catocala unijuga Catocala marmorata Update for mine. Not much on the butterfly front this year as I had ONE day trip, but I got two Erora on it so it paid off! Moths I scored big time: I got the Cecropia (2 at light), Grammia virgo and virguncula bonus, Smerinthus cerisyi (4), saw a S. jamaicensis but someone else took it, caught a Eumorpha labruscae at light at Archbold Station in October to end the season on a high note, got a single Hyparpax aurora in MASS, the Hologram Moth (2) in the Berkshires, and my first Catocala unijuga! Only things still on the list are: Arctia caja Platarctia parthenos Darapsa versicolor Blcak Witch Catocala sappho Catocala marmorata Added to the list for this year are: Sphinx chersis Ceratomia amyntor Abbott's Sphinx Grammia parthenice Notodonta scitipennis Catocala meskei/semirelicta/briseis Papaipema apassionata & others Also, SE Arizona in July for LepSoc I hope! First timer!
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Post by oslari on May 17, 2021 10:43:44 GMT -8
- Antheraea polyphemus olivacea - Callosamia securifera - Hemileuca electra rubra - Agapema homogena - Saturnia mendocino x walterorum - Coloradia luski - Syssphinx raspa
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