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Post by mothman27 on Jul 30, 2018 17:26:25 GMT -8
How many insect drawers/boxes do you have? Right now I have 25. 1. South American Saturniidae 2. South American Saturniidae 3. African Saturniidae 4. Asian Saturniidae 5. USA Eastern Saturniidae 6. USA Eastern Saturniidae 7. USA Western Saturniidae 8. USA Catocala 9. USA Noctuidae/Erebidae/Euteliidae/Psychidae/Tineidae/Apatelodidae/Lasiocampidae/Hesperiidae 10. USA Noctuidae 11. USA Speyeria/Boloria 12. Worldwide butterflies 13. USA Arctiidae 14. USA Papilionidae 15. USA Nymphalidae 16. USA Nymphalidae 17. USA Sphingidae 18. USA Pieridae/Lycaenidae 19. USA Coleoptera 20. Worldwide and USA Coleoptera 21. USA Hymenoptera/Diptera/Odonata/Dyctyoptera/Psocoptera/Hemiptera/Homoptera/Etc. 22. Extra bugs 23. 4-H collection 24. 4-H collection 25. 4-H collection
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Post by bandrow on Jul 30, 2018 18:39:14 GMT -8
Greetings,
My inventory off the top of my head:
Cerambycidae North American - 85 drawers Exotic (all regions) - 104 drawers
Scarabaeoidea North American - 58 drawers Exotic (all regions) - 14 drawers
Lucanidae (all regions) - 3 drawers
Euchiridae - 1 drawer
Buprestidae - mostly North American - 8 drawers
Carabidae, including Cicindelinae - 10 drawers
Tenebrionidae - 6 drawers
Meloidae - 2 drawers
Elateridae - 2 drawers
Silphidae - 1/2 drawer
Hydrophilidae/Dytiscidae - 1/2 drawer
Chrysomelidae - 2 drawers
Miscellaneous Coleoptera - 6 drawers
Lepidoptera - 8 drawers
miscellaneous Insecta - 2 drawers
Papered or wet material awaiting preparation - at least 10 drawers worth...
No wonder the house is a mess!! Bandrow
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Post by johnnyboy on Jul 30, 2018 22:37:42 GMT -8
My insect collection of 65 drawers and 10 storage boxes is quite modest in size compared with other collectors. I'm hoping to get more cabinets when I retire in years to come. I have 20 drawers topical butterflies, 20 drawers tropical and temperate moths, 15 drawers tropical and temperate beetles and 10 drawers hymenoptera, diptera, orthoptera, megaloptera, odonata etc, both tropical and UK. My son has his own collection of mostly European butterflies kept in several store boxes. I also, like most collectors, have several boxes of unset insects.
Johnny
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 23:05:52 GMT -8
Well over 100 drawers and boxes, exotic, European and British butterflies, 5 of British moths, mostly historic and separately my self collected material of 12 drawers.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Jul 31, 2018 0:48:42 GMT -8
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Post by jhyatt on Jul 31, 2018 5:38:49 GMT -8
Well, if anyone is curious, I'm at about the 525 drawer point. These are Cornell and Cal Academy drawers, plus an old cabinet of 36 smaller-sized drawers. I also have perhaps 25 wooden storeboxes, mostly empty and used as pro tem storage of material awaiting curation or donation. This count includes maybe 20 empty Cornells, and I also have unfilled cabinet space for 36 more Cornell drawers. I have a chest freezer and an old refrigerator freezer compartment full of boxes of papered material.
The breakdown of drawer allocation is (very, very approximately): 142 drawers of Papilionidae, 20 Helicon idae, 25 Pieridae, 25 Morphos and Brassolids, 84 Nymphalidae, 24 Satryidae, 12 Ithomiidae, 79 Lycaenidae, 12 Riodinidae, 20 Hesperiidae, and 67 of various moths.
The collection is about half-and-half North American and exotic. North American material mainly self-collected, as aare perhaps 20% of the exotics.
Even the very thought of ever moving house again is impossible at this point!
Cheers, John
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Post by miguel on Jul 31, 2018 6:12:13 GMT -8
Hi All,I have around 90 boxes,the biggest part are of European butterflies and moths.
Best wishes
Miguel
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Post by crino on Jul 31, 2018 8:56:19 GMT -8
Right now I have: 20 drawers - Achillides 8 drawers - European Lepidoptera 2 drawers - European Coleoptera 56 drawers - Lepidoptera mix including several Papilionidae and Charaxes Actually it is too much for me. I should get rid of many of them... crino
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Post by jshuey on Jul 31, 2018 11:04:06 GMT -8
I have exactly 276 drawers at the moment – with plans to add 54 this fall. That is one more of the double wood cabinets in the photo of my very cramped bug room. About 90 of these are (mostly) neotropical Hesperiidae. The remainder is the other stuff….
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Post by exoticimports on Aug 1, 2018 3:31:35 GMT -8
For decades I limited to 100. Specimens in, specimens out. This is a reference collection not a bloody museum. But I’ve not had time to dispose of unneeded material lately so I’ve had to add drawers and am up to about 120. Problem is they are packed tight and I could easily space out the specimens if I added another 100 drawers. No way- so I gotta get rid of stuff.
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Post by mcheki on Aug 1, 2018 4:24:48 GMT -8
Over many years I have built a reference collection purely of African butterflies. All families are represented and come from most countries in the sub-Saharan region. This collection is housed in 327 drawers of various sizes and about 27 double sided store boxes. Not to mention a large number of assorted boxes containing papered specimens still being studied. All specimens within the drawers are in taxonomic order. Further specimens are added as acquired.
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Post by Paul K on Aug 1, 2018 5:09:15 GMT -8
I only have 64 drawers as of today with more to come as my papered material is awaiting to be mounted. Total space in my cabinets: 96 drawers with possible extantion for additional 33. I collect only my self and don’t buy specimens so my collection is limited to the locations I visited. Mainly Thailand, Laos, South America, Canada and few European drawers collected when I was a child.
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Post by Adam Cotton on Aug 1, 2018 6:48:33 GMT -8
... and it was really great to get to know you when you were in Chiang Mai too.
Adam.
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Post by Paul K on Aug 1, 2018 8:42:19 GMT -8
The pleasure was all mine, and I will be back. I still haven’t look at all your drawers, rembemer? It will be very interesting to look at Ting’s collection too as it most likely covers most Thai species ( if you will still taking care of).
Paul
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Post by trehopr1 on Aug 1, 2018 9:04:51 GMT -8
I have 90 Cornell drawers at this time. 50 of them contain Lepidoptera and the other portion hold my other various Insecta.
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