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Post by leptraps on May 21, 2016 4:19:27 GMT -8
I finally managed to get all of my Bait Traps and about half of my Pheromone Traps set out. I have collected hundreds of Nymphalis antiopa and the Asterocampa, Polygonia and Satyrs are also showing up in good numbers. I did managed one very nice moth, Drasteria graphica which I actually collected in West Virginia during a trip to visit family in Eastern Kentucky. This is a first for me. It is also the first Drasteria I have ever collected in a bait trap. It is currently on a spreading board. The two specimens below are from Georgia.  |
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Post by leptraps on May 22, 2016 7:45:48 GMT -8
I am on my way to Mingo County, West Virginia. I have two things to do. 1.)I have four Light Traps and 6 Bait Traps. I will have them all set out before I return home. 2.) I have the larvae of Polygonia progne and they have consumed most of the host plant I collected a week ago. I need more Ribes. I have pots and a shovel I do not intend on returning for more.
I intend to set out all the traps in the area where collected the Drasteria graphica Thursday. I will return tomorrow to recover my Light Traps. I will leave the Bait Traps there for some time. We shall see.
And Yes, I stopped at a Waffle in Mount Sterling, Kentucky for lunch.
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 1, 2016 13:44:54 GMT -8
Got a nessus sphinx in my bait trap today. This is the first of the species for me.
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Post by 58chevy on Jun 2, 2016 11:54:42 GMT -8
Good catch, mothman. One of my favorite species.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2016 14:43:52 GMT -8
I got a abbott's sphinx out of my trap today.
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 23, 2016 12:10:14 GMT -8
Another nessus, a female this time, and a D. myron today. Hope to get eggs.
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Post by jhyatt on Jun 24, 2016 5:06:45 GMT -8
My usual luck continues. I put out a bait trap on Holston Mtn. in Sullivan Co., TN. Left it two nights, went to see what had collected. Found the trap pulled nearly to the ground, the bottom plate hanging by two hooks, and the bait pan yards away, licked completely clean. No moths or butterflies. I suspect the usual raccoon culprit; I've seen bears on that mountain, but they'd probably rip up the trap. Ce la Vie.
J. Hyatt
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 28, 2016 10:38:45 GMT -8
Pair of Abbott's today in the bait trap
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2016 13:13:08 GMT -8
I've got a pair of flies and about 500 of their children in my trap.
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Post by kcmatt on Jun 30, 2016 6:28:13 GMT -8
Pair of Abbott's today in the bait trap Congrats! Let us know if you might have any available abotttii or Amphion ova or eventual pupae available down the road! |
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 30, 2016 10:37:44 GMT -8
My Abbott's will not lay any eggs! the nessus layed 4 eggs then no more! what ratio of sugar water is best? I use 4 part water, 1 part sugar approx. How can I get them to keep laying? I did not witness a pairing of either but they have been with males the whole time. What is a usual life span for these sphinx?
Thanks,
Tim
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Post by kcmatt on Jun 30, 2016 10:57:05 GMT -8
If you caught them at trap, they should be fertile already. Are you manually feeding them? Gently extend proboscis into Gatorade daily for 5 minutes or so and you should get more ova. I hope you get some more!
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Post by leptraps on Aug 12, 2016 5:55:58 GMT -8
I walked into my "Lights On Room" (The lights are "on" 24/7) this morning and I found 5 males of Polygonia progne that had emerged. A little late to be sure. I have 42 chrysalis yet to emerge.
Even though I reared them in cages, I still managed to have several parasitic flies emerge earlier last week.
Yesterday while checking my bait traps in Meade County, KY, I found a Catocala parta underneath the platform of the bait trap. He is currently on a spreading board.
I am currently on my way to Morgan and Owsely county in Kentucky to check baits. I am sitting in a Waffle House near Winchester, KY. A waitress has a butterfly tattooed on her arm. Looks like a swallowtail of some sort. I declined to ask her about it. I bet she weighs 300+. A bowel of Jello ain't got the moves of this beauty.
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Post by mothman27 on Sept 21, 2016 18:14:34 GMT -8
Pair of Abbott's today in the bait trap Congrats! Let us know if you might have any available abotttii or Amphion ova or eventual pupae available down the road! Hopefully I will have A. floridensis ova in the spring. I managed to get five pupae from that female.  I had one fifth instar abbottii but it died in pupation while I was gone in Florida. |
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Post by leptraps on Sept 22, 2016 4:11:17 GMT -8
When I lived in Virginia, Amphion floridensis was extremely common. I reared them on Vitus, Opossum Grape. I went and looked in my collection just now, I have sixteen specimens from Virginia. Some of them reared. The year was 1976.
However, while living in Mississippi, 1994 to 1998, I collected, in my Bait Traps a male Amphion floridensis mated with Sphecodina Abbott female, AND, vise versa. Not once, but five times. I will dig up my photographs. I have two pair that died without separating. I actually mounted them. I will post photographs later. I must take some and find some.
Also in Mississippi, in the same bait traps I collected Male Liminentis archippus mating with a female Limenitis arthemis astyanax. She laid eggs, none hatched.
This is what you get when you activley collect for over 60 years and using bait traps for over 40 years. And it is even more fun when you retire and can do it full time. I have noticed However, that since I turned 60 (2005), the butterflies have become much faster and more agile.
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