witches in the SF Bay Area...

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James:

A odorata may have ridden an 18-wheeler into town from south Texas.

Jim Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Kruse" <fnjjk1 at uaf.edu>
To: "Leps-l" <Leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 3:52 PM
Subject: witches in the SF Bay Area...


> Greetings:
>
> I have been told that very recently a live Ascalapha odorata (Black
Witch -
> a very large dark brown noctuid common in Mexico) in good condition was
> found in Berkeley, California. Not only did it make its way to the Bay
Area
> in pretty nice shape, it ended up flying into the second story window of
> Wellman Hall on the Berkeley campus... where the Essig Museum of
Entomology
> is kept!!! Natural selection at work? Is this like the trophy fish that
> jumped into the boat? Now what do you put on the label... found in the
Essig
> Museum? duh!
>
> Anyhow, I am writing to find out if anyone in the Bay Area is rearing it
and
> intentionally/unintentionally released any. It is rarely found in northern
> California, even though it goes _much_ further north in eastern states,
> usually in the fall. It is even more unusual, a bizarre coincidence in
fact,
> that it ended up in the entomology museum (under its own power). But, the
> campus is pretty dark and the building is on a hill with the second story
> windows open and the lights on almost all of the time, so I don't think
> there is any funny business going on. Less so if someone local set some
> loose.
>
> An odd and probably unpleasant thing to release at a wedding I should
think,
> akin to releasing bats.
>
> Regards,
>
> James J. Kruse, Ph.D.
> Curator of Entomology
> University of Alaska Museum
> 907 Yukon Drive
> Fairbanks, AK, USA 99775-6960
> tel 907.474.5579
> fax 907.474.1987
> http://www.uaf.edu/museum/ento
>
>
>
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