moth-rah info

[Ron Gatrelle]

This is a blatant commercial plug.  The TILS moth-rah list serve on
Yahoo!groups is now 1 week old today.   There are only 26 individuals
subscribed so far and things are fairly quit.  But the potential is really
exciting.  First, I anticipate that it will be a nice place to live - that
is, moth folk don't seem to have all the wrangling us butterfly types do.
It must be the quite around the light sheets in the middle of the night in
places in Arizona and Spain.  Common names and collecting are non issues on
moth-rah.  Even species concepts and for sure subspecies are a - do what?

I am subscribed there in great hopes of learning something about the dark
side of leps.  Too much time in the light for this boy.

I will drop some names of who is currently on that list for the benefit of
those who would like to post pictures of unknowns to experts such as these,
and hear what these people have to say about moths and mothing.

Paul Talbot, England  (his painting of an Elephant Hawkmoth graces the
moth-rah home page.)
Don Lafontaine, Canada
James Adams, Georgia USA
James Kruse, Alaska ( it should be a country :-)

and 22 other fine people.

The last post there was by Eduardo Marabuto of Portugal on the 18th. He
posted a couple of unknowns to get an ID on.  Here is his entire post.
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Hi everyone.

Joined this newly born group some days ago and hope it'll be useful for
most "moth people". Not only because of helps about the IDs but also, like
what happens on the TILS-leps-talk, for us to understand more the biology
of moths. A so vast group of leps, though not so well studied like their
usually more colourful sisters, butterflies...

I'm Eduardo Manuel Marabuto, from Lisbon, Portugal and a butterfly and moth
collector (not yet specialized myself... eheh). Because I'm lack of time,
usually only go to the field during vacations or some weekends, and because
of living in an apartment can't run a light trap every night of the year.
:(   I belong to various forums where insects and particularly leps are
discussed about sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera; on insectnet.com;
butterfly-pix (yahoo)...)though I don't write too much... mostly an
observer!

Well now, after some introduction here's the main point of this message:
there are two little moths for ID, caught in South Portugal, whose dates of
capture are 1st November 2001 and 14 February 2002.  I uploaded their
pictures to the photos section and despite not being very confident on the
fact someone will help me, here they are, to confuse who wants to!

All the best

Eduardo Marabuto
Portugal

PS: sorry my bad english :((
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