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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 6:44:24 GMT -8
Me too w not one IL cat yet this year. I've blacklighted dozens of times ( 3 times this week) and have never not seen a one into August. Slopping also has produced zero.........what's up I don't know Had I not gone to e TN, I would have zero for the year. Hopefully August will come through when the moon is better.
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Post by mothman27 on Aug 3, 2017 7:19:49 GMT -8
I have not had very good bait this year but I have only seen one at my sheet (every night since June) or anywhere else since the two C. dulciola. Very weird. Total:3
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Post by trehopr1 on Aug 3, 2017 8:07:10 GMT -8
I am also having the same bad luck -- 0 Catocala so far this year to date. I simply don't recall a year quite like this. I have only been using my 175 watt Merc. Vap. Light to bring them to me but, I can nearly always get some in July. Have tried at least 6 times since mid- June. I only put out the light on what I feel should be an ideal night. A high humidity evening following up a hot and sultry day. Still, no luck. Only seem to get cutworm moths or loopers along with the usual caddis flies and stink bugs. Think I may go out and try some "tree looking" at a forest preserve I have had some luck at before. Maybe I will sight some and catch them that way whilst at rest. I don't sugar for them as I really don't have an available tree line near my home to work. I don't do bait traps as I could never check them frequently enough to get anything in good shape!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2017 9:00:39 GMT -8
Misery deserves company they say. I hate everyone is having a bad catocala year but I was beginning to think it was just me. I usually start seeing them by the first week of July so this is very strange. I guess it's going to be a bad catocala year.
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Post by rayrard on Aug 4, 2017 0:03:34 GMT -8
In SE AZ we had a couple species of Catocala. Three Catocala neogama (western race) and a red hind winged species I have to spread to check out. They were in Madera Canyon except for one neogama in the Chiricahuas.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 5:16:36 GMT -8
I got a single specimen of Catocala neogama this morning.
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Post by coloradeo on Aug 7, 2017 21:47:14 GMT -8
I put out out a couple of bait traps in my backyard and then left on a week log trip to the Grand Canyon. I stopped along the way and on the way back to put my MV/UV lights out. I had not caught a catocala this year and then when my lights were on top of the mountain overlooking Glenwood Springs, Colo the other night, they came in in droves. I think I got 3 different species.
When I arrived back home on Sunday, my bait traps each had several cats also -- certainly a few C. Amatrix, and probably hermia, but I'll need to mount them before I can better assess. I gues the season is finally on in Colorado.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 13:21:40 GMT -8
I'm not getting catocala in my bait trap I'm catching something that I've never caught before. Horse flies. They are coming to banana based bait. New one on me.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2017 4:24:29 GMT -8
Still no catocala. Seems these abnormally cool temperatures for August are to blame. Not to mention the rain. I'm sticking to my theory that under normal conditions the heat and lack of moisture drive the moths from the canopy down to the trunks looking for cooler temps and food.
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Post by leptraps on Aug 14, 2017 2:38:25 GMT -8
To date, this has not been a great year for Catocala. I did however, take several nice species. Catocala consor, Catocala dulciola and Catocala connubialis form "pulverulenta". However, I also collected a super size Cicada Killer (Sphecius specious). Although not aggressive, they can be a handful in a Bait Ytap. Yesterday as I was checking one of the Bait Trap in my yard, I found six (6) Cicada Killers in the Trap. One was a very large and very active male (?). I popped it in a jar. It was a big one. I released the others.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 4:44:46 GMT -8
Caught my first IL cats last night. Nothing great, but ...finally....got some to the lights. Got a subnata, residua, and a paleogama. Sure glad I had great action with cats in e TN earlier this summer.
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Post by exoticimports on Aug 14, 2017 5:28:07 GMT -8
Catocala are out in numbers in upstate NY. Had one leave a big gob of goo on my windshield yesterday.
Chuck
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2017 11:49:52 GMT -8
Collected a single catocala specimen today off the side of my outdoor rabbit cage. It was 10 feet from where the bait trap is hanging. Go figure.
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Post by leptraps on Aug 16, 2017 11:56:14 GMT -8
I have collect a total of six (6) specimens, not species, specimens of Catocala moths here in Kentucky. All in Bait Traps. A very poor year for Catocala moths.
Beginning in late April, I have been conducting a Moth Survey in the Morgan State Forest and the Yellow State Forest in both Brown and Morgan counties about 50 miles south of Indianapolis, Indiana.
To date I have recorded almost 900 species of moths. I have another 200+ specimens of Microlepidoptera yet to be determined. I visit once a week. Tuesday I travel up to the forests, set out 5 or 6 Light Traps, overnight in Martinsville, recover and sort the Light Traps on Wednesday morning and return home. I also have dozens of Pheromone Traps and eight (8) bait traps placed thought-out the forest, To date I have collect 16 specimens of Catocala in Bait Traps representing 3 speces: Catocala ilia, Catocala ultronia and Catocala innubens. A very poor showing. However, I have seen some fantastic Catocala moths in the Light Traps. Catocala dulciola, Catocala consors and Catocala delilah.
This week I changed my schedule around and I traveled to Indiana on Monday and set out five (5) Light Traps. I overnight in Martinsville, Indiana. When I recovered my Light Traps and sorted them on Tuesday morning, I collected of forty two (42) Catocala moths. All but two had Black Hindwings:
Catocala dejecta Catocala epione Catocala judith Catocala retecta Catocala robinsini/angusi (I will sort them out once they are off my spreading boards) Catocala flebilis Catocala obscura Catocala residua Catocala cerogama (Yellow Hindwing)
I had several bait traps in the proximity of the Light Traps and not one Catocala in any of them. Go Figure!!
I collected two Sphinx moths this week in Yellow Wood State Forest that I have not seen here in Kentucky for years: Sphinx eremitus and Dolba hyloeus
I collected a 11 species of Sessid moths including Paranthrene tabaniformis, Synanthedon refulgens and Carmenta corni.
Morgan State Forest and Yellow State Forest are beautiful forests. The wildlife is spectacular. Yesterday morning as I traveled down the Low Gap Road to the Low Gap Trail Head to pick up two (2) of the Light Traps, I rounded a slight bend in the road encountered a large flock of 30 or more Turkeys. (Does the term "Flock" apply to a large group of Turkeys. I always thought a large group of Turkeys were a bunch of Democrats. No offence intended on the real Turkeys.) By the time I stopped my car and got my camera in hand, many of the Turkeys had crossed the road and into the Soy Bean field. A large male turned and approach my car in a defensive maneuver. I had been munching on a Egg McMuffin from Mickey D's. As the male approached I tossed a large piece of the Muffin towards the Turkey. The Muffin hit the ground and bounced. The Turkey caught the Muffin in mid-bounce and took off with it into the Soy Bean field with the remainder of the flock in hot pursuit.
I have collected some beautiful moths and had a wonderful opportunity to explore and collect moths in a beautiful forest. Each trip into the forest has been an adventure. I have been truly blessed.
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Post by rayrard on Aug 16, 2017 15:05:25 GMT -8
Not much collecting since AZ but I got out today in the mid-80's and tried some tapping. Not much action besides some smalls but there was this A CT Catocala nebulosa! Also a C. cerogama and a C. obscura Odd I'd see three moths (possibly a couple more unIDed smalls) and one would be a nebulosa. That is new for me. Glad I went out despite the poor showing Attachments:
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