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Post by leptraps on Jun 4, 2020 9:45:31 GMT -8
Prionoxystus macmurtrei is not a regular visitor to UV light. I have several in my collection.
Pyrrhia cilisca, some years rather common. Other years scarce.
Did you get them both at light?
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 4, 2020 13:08:09 GMT -8
Prionoxystus macmurtrei is not a regular visitor to UV light. I have several in my collection. Pyrrhia cilisca, some years rather common. Other years scarce. Didvypu get them both at light? Yes, both at light.
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 9, 2020 5:58:28 GMT -8
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 9, 2020 6:03:36 GMT -8
This one's for you, Bob.I feel bad, Bob, that hard-shelled fascinator, having to look at our large-winged furry creatures.
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Post by Paul K on Jun 9, 2020 7:57:11 GMT -8
I went last night to my gas station and found about same species as you Chuck.
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 10, 2020 3:52:57 GMT -8
Last night was hot, with a low of about 72F/ 22C.
As expected, thousands of small moths, beetles, etc.
Perhaps disappointing, also the first T polyphemus and A io. While the flight periods of these species do overlap with A luna, they typically appear at the very end of the luna flight season.
I have one more trap to check today.
Chuck
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Post by leptraps on Jun 10, 2020 14:43:32 GMT -8
I just returned setting out four (4) Light Traps. Two in/near the Mantua Wetlands. While setting out the Light Traps in an upland forest near the wetlands, I almost stepped on a Copper Head Snake. A stunning specimen. It has been more than fifty years since I last saw a Copper Head in the mountains of Virginia north of the town of Blue Grass.
I saw my first Euphydryas phaeton. I will return everyday for the next week or so. Swap Box guys will love them.
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 13, 2020 14:21:49 GMT -8
We had several days of very cold nights, so not much to report. Last night was low of about 65F, and produced a lot of smaller moths, but at least a lot of them. No luna or other saturnid; by now luna should be about done, but I haven't seen a single one. Here are photos from the last few nights: Looks like you got a P. macmurtrei as well.
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Post by leptraps on Jun 13, 2020 16:13:11 GMT -8
Many years ago I found a larva while cut down a tree in my yard. The wings are fully covered with scales when the adult emerges from the pupae. But once it flutters its wings prior to the first flight, all the scales come off the wings in a cloud of dust.
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 14, 2020 15:40:44 GMT -8
That’s a female. I got two males last year, maybe one or two females in my lifetime.
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 16, 2020 5:51:29 GMT -8
Last few nights have dipped to 48F/ 9C. As one might expect, virtually zero came to the light.
One funny event: yesterday I found a new, dark-winged tiger moth. This certainly was a novelty! I looked at the reference volumes to determine that it is Euchaetes egle. What?? The Milkweed Tiger Moth? I've seen thousands of larvae, but apparently have NEVER encountered an adult!
Chuck
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Post by leptraps on Jun 17, 2020 18:15:27 GMT -8
On Monday night I set out two Light Traps in a wooded area near the Mantua Wetlands. This AM I collected my Light Traps and had a real surprise, Hyles gallii. I had another Hyles gallii in a Bait Trap in a wooded area NE of Hiram, Ohio. I thought this was a first. When I looked in my collection, I have four (4) specimens from the upper Peninsula of Michigan that I collected in 1993.
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Post by exoticimports on Jun 18, 2020 4:08:00 GMT -8
I got one H gallii last year, early in the evening, just before "black dark". Came to the 175W MV. It's the only one, keeping in mind I've been lighting the same location for 16 years.
Chuck
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Post by mothman27 on Jun 19, 2020 2:42:30 GMT -8
I collected a P. excaecata today as well as the first S. kalmiae I have found here. I did get one last year in N. Carolina. It always fun when you find something which has been hiding for several years. That makes the 12th species of sphingid I have collected here this year.
This week I went on a trip to look for Boloria selene but only found one. I did get some Cicindela repanda though. I also found an area with bunches of Asterocampa celtis.
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Post by leptraps on Jun 19, 2020 7:46:32 GMT -8
I collected my Light Traps this AM. The trap near a large seep had a Sphinx moth: Paonias astylus. I had to look in my collection to see the last time I collect one; Crown Hill Knob, Rowan County, KY 30 June 2002. I collected it numerous times in the Mountains of SW Virginia.
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