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Post by rayrard on Jul 28, 2020 13:49:03 GMT -8
I use bananas, apples, molasses, brown sugar with water and let it sit in the trunk for a few days to weeks.
We went tapping today. Moths were SUPER jumpy but added to the year's tally of species
ilia ultronia lineella amica nebulosa cerogama - NEW for year dejecta residua serena flebilis - NEW for year innubens palaeogama subnata - NEW for year
Up to 26 species. Good numbers of moths
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Post by Paul K on Jul 28, 2020 16:16:35 GMT -8
I use bananas, apples, molasses, brown sugar with water and let it sit in the trunk for a few days to weeks. We went tapping today. Moths were SUPER jumpy but added to the year's tally of species ilia ultronia lineella amica nebulosa cerogama - NEW for year dejecta residua serena flebilis - NEW for year innubens palaeogama subnata - NEW for year Up to 26 species. Good numbers of moths So you use same stuff as for traps. I heard once that jam mixed with beer and sugar works good ?
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Post by mothman27 on Jul 29, 2020 2:01:16 GMT -8
I'm currently at 19 species. C. minuta crataegi alabamae dulciola ultronia grynea blandula innubens lineela amica mira judith neogama insolabilis piatrix palaeogama ilia junctura maestosa
Went tapping yesterday but didn't stay long as I only saw some lineela and one palaeogama.
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Post by exoticimports on Jul 29, 2020 5:16:03 GMT -8
All I got last night and last few are catocala. No more sphingidae, oddly no arctiidae. I can't tell one from the other, and with only two drawers dedicated to catocala, I'm out of space for them. I hate catocala.
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Post by rayrard on Jul 30, 2020 22:28:25 GMT -8
I use bananas, apples, molasses, brown sugar with water and let it sit in the trunk for a few days to weeks. We went tapping today. Moths were SUPER jumpy but added to the year's tally of species ilia ultronia lineella amica nebulosa cerogama - NEW for year dejecta residua serena flebilis - NEW for year innubens palaeogama subnata - NEW for year Up to 26 species. Good numbers of moths A couple new species: a habilis today tapping and a very good record of a CT minuta 28 species by August. Not bad.
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Post by rayrard on Aug 2, 2020 11:02:58 GMT -8
amica lineella micronympha sordida praeclara similis ultronia serena dejecta ilia epione palaeogama maestosa nebulosa parta innubens neogama relicta connubialis residua concumbens grynea gracilis cerogama flebilis subnata habilis minuta antinympha - 1 at light andromedae - 2 at light
30 species to date
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Post by trehopr1 on Aug 3, 2020 11:13:54 GMT -8
Out of curiosity rayrard do you collect some of the more notable species whilst doing all this tree tapping? I can see making a "footnote" in one's field ledger of all the common place species but, others would have to get captured if possible...
Do you have any pic's to show us of some of your Catocala collection or perhaps at least some of the more interesting species ?
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Post by trehopr1 on Aug 3, 2020 11:29:37 GMT -8
I also think this thread would be more interesting if folks could show pic's of some of the difficult to determine species (and what markers they use) in their said determinations...
I've come to know Catocala species to a reasonable degree though some of the dark species and a few of the pink ones can be confusing.
Obviously, some dark species are standouts and a no brainer but, others not so much. If you tell me some pink species is unijuga then how do you know its not meiskei.
Anyway, I'd post pictures of my question-ables if posting pictures was an easier thing here...
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Post by leptraps on Aug 4, 2020 12:10:46 GMT -8
I made the rounds checking my Bait Traps this AM. I found a Catocala relicta with almost slate gray forewings. Catocala have been far and few between this year.
I also collected several Zale's, not sure of all the ID's. Redectis vitrea and a species I have never seen this far north: Melipotis jucunda.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 21:54:45 GMT -8
My species caught to date........ C. ultronia, blandula, marmorata, ilia, unijuga, junctura, neogama, subnata, innubens (reg), grynea, sordida, insolabilis, flebilis, andromedae, paleogama, parta, coccinata, amatrix, f. nirus and selecta cara, epione, nebulosa, dejecta, illecta, lacromosa, judith, piatrix, amica, residua, minuta, maestosa, micronympha, cerogama, and several small orange ones I have yet to ID. Looking forward to more action. IL has had a decent season so far. Many of these I’ve caught sugaring in my backyard. Just last night I got a subnata, ultronia, amatrix, and two grynea before it rained. Add.......... relicta, vidua, innubens f. scintiilans, hinda, umbrosa mira IL action is heating up........Aug. 14th, while sugaring, got my first IL angusi (caught them before in TN and KY) along w some caras, subnatas, and a real orange HW fringed nebulosa ........37 sp. so far in 2020.
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Post by leptraps on Aug 9, 2020 5:49:54 GMT -8
I have seven (7) Bait Traps set out in several areas. I will add two more today in the Grand River WA. I will have a total of Six in the Grand River WMA. I have taken a total nine (9) specimen of three species in the Grand River WMA.
I have three (3) Bait Traps in the Mantua Wetlands and two (2) in the forests adjacent to the Mantua Wetland on the Ashford Methodist Church Camp. I have taken eleven (11) specimens of Catocala, consisting of four (4) species.
I have not found much more in my Light Traps.
I was told by someone that there is an ongoing battle with a large poultry operation, including eggs, who has arial sprayed insecticides in the area.
I did a one night collecting trip with four (4) Light Traps to the Killdeer WMA south of Upper Sandusky (Wyandot County), Ohio. I collected 22 Catocala moths consisting of six (6) species. I will repeat that effort this week.
I General, moth populations appear to be on the low side.
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Post by 58chevy on Aug 9, 2020 6:57:15 GMT -8
Catocala species to date: ilia
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Post by trehopr1 on Aug 10, 2020 11:03:58 GMT -8
Man, some of you fella's sure live in some rich faunal areas for Catocala.
Admittedly, I have not yet made it out yet for sugaring. Have had some good potential nights to do it but always something else going on... I've tried lighting with my 175 watt MVL with limited success. I don't employ bait traps because I don't have the time to check them in a timely manner. Have even gone out searching for them in the day.
For all my efforts I have collected all of 12 specimens representing only 3 species.
Pitiful... But, better than nothing at all !
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Post by mothman27 on Aug 10, 2020 11:12:59 GMT -8
I got my first C. cara of the year today, always a treat. First C. subnata was earlier this week. Yesterday got one that might be meskei. Other than those not much.
Non-Catocala find: European mantis, the second I have found in 6 years. He was at the sheet.
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Post by mothman27 on Aug 12, 2020 4:33:27 GMT -8
C. amatrix are coming out now. Also got a C. neogama and C. innubens in the traps today. Best of all at the sheet was my first ever Catocala angusi, a distinctive species which is new to my collection. Up to 22 species this year.
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