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Lepidoptera: butterflies & moths.
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IMPORTANT: the LEPS-L list is moving this evening to LEPS-L@mailman.yale.edu
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Hello LEPS-L subscribers, our list is being transferred over to a more modern software platform at Yale this evening, Monday 7 May 2012. The address for posting WILL CHANGE MOMENTARILY to LEP...@mailman.yale.edu In a few minutes, I will be automatically subscribing all of you to this new list. You should each receive a confirmation email that describes how you can manage your subscription to the new list using a web browser. Note in particular that in the confirmation email you will be provided with an initial password that allows you access to the website for changing subscription options etc. You should archive that confirmation email for future use, and also login to change your password and make any other customizations you wish at this time. The old address of LEP...@lists.yale.edu WILL STOP FUNCTIONING within the next 12-36 hours. One aspect that many of you will probably find useful is that the full archives of LEPS-L are available and searchable online in a co!... more »
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SingIe mom makes reaI money working at home onIine
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Sat, 5 May 2012 4:48:43
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" And she bought one from a Sante F gift shop during a trip the little family made out West during the Great Depression." (c) shayauna yates... more »
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host plants
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Good morning,
Would anybody happen to know the larval hosts of the following bugs:
Illioneus Giant Owl (Caligo illioneus)
Split Banded Owlet (Opsiphanes cassina)
Pale-spotted Memphis (Memphis pithyusa)
Dero Clearwing (Dircenna dero)
Naxia Sister (Adelpha naxia)
THANKS
chris... more »
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2012 Lepidoptera Course, 11-20 August
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The 2012 Lepidoptera Course will be held at the SW Research Station in the heart
of the Chirichahua Mts. of SE Arizona (about 2 hours from Tucson) on 11-20
August. This setting is one of the highest areas of lepidoptera biodiversity
in the US. The focus of the course is to train serious amateurs,... more »
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ID help
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Here is a pic of what I think is Euxoa auxillaris seems like there is a few other possible moths it could be. What are your thought?
Location data: Worthington, MN.
Thanks for looking.
Tom Middagh
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Fw: [DPLEX-L:48147] Wave after wave of butterflies from Texas
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Here in Southern Ontario we were delighted by the "invasion" of thousands of red admirals, beginning April 16. I'm curious about the waves of other species that Chip Taylor mentions here. Are any of you in the Midwest seeing unusual numbers?
I would love to see more of the southern species. Variegated fritillaries... more »
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UConn Grad Ben Olsen needs P. virginiensis population information
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Hello,
I am a masters student of in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
department at UConn working with *Pieris virginiensis *(West Virginia
White). I need 6 female *P. virginiensis *females for my ovipositon
experiment with garlic mustard and was hoping someone could help me locate
at least two populations. Thank you in advance for your help.... more »
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Lyside sulphur (Kricogonia lyside) outbreak in southwest Texas
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FYI,
Lyside sulphurs make periodic mass movements across south Texas
which appear to induced by an extensive drought followed by heavy,
widespread rains.
More info and links to short observations published in the Journal of the
Lepidopterists’ Society here:
Lyside Sulphur - *Kricogonia lyside*... more »
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? Moth ID
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Image:
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Was going through my moths and found this brown moth I had not iD'd. Missing some scales.
Maybe a Dasychira dorsipennata any suggestions would be great.
Data
Wingspan 39mm
Minnesota
Becker County
July 23, 1978
Thanks for looking... more »
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