[moth-rah] why I prefer moths from Steve Johnson

[Dave Wikle]

While you're on the subject, I had a couple mystery midnight snackers this
past summer that took 3mm samples from the spreading board from Papilio
multicaudata as well as Eacles, Manduca and several other Pena Blanca 
treasures.  The damage was similar to that seen in Ferguson's Fascicle
20.2B Plate 19, Fig8 on H. euryalis.   My thoughts were either that a
yellowjacket came in through the window during the day, or a cockroach at
night.  No crickets or centepedes in this house, but we get that big German
cockroach periodically.   Wasn't dermestid unless a stray adult flew in,
but saw no sign.  Dash and dine.  Anybody recognize that damage?  


> [Original Message]
> From: Stanley A. Gorodenski <stan_gorodenski at asualumni.org>
> To: Dr. James Adams <jadams at em.daltonstate.edu>
> Cc: <TILS-leps-talk at yahoogroups.com>; <TILS-moth-rah at yahoogroups.com>;
<leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
> Date: 11/12/2003 7:36:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [moth-rah] why I prefer moths from Steve Johnson
>
> I had a similar problem once. I think it was a cricket or crickets that 
> did it. They are really vicious animals, at least in Arizona. Now I put 
> my boards either in the oven or in a plastic bag.
>
> Dr. James Adams wrote:
>
> >this far north.  The only drawback was that when I went to take the 
> >specimen off the boards . . . AAAHH, something had *eaten* most of it.
It 
> >was the only moth on the board that was touched (isn't this one of the 
> >axiom's of Murphy's Law?). I don't think it was a mouse -- there are no 
> >other indications that it was something that large and I believe it
would 
> >have eaten a number of other things on the board. My guess is something 
> >like a house centipede (Scutigiera sp.). There was a head and just
enough 
> >thorax left to glue back to the pin and give me something to glue the
wings 
> >to. Yeah, all four wings came through in reasonably decent shape. Oh
well, 
> >at least I still have an *identifiable* specimen -- as I mentioned
above, 
> >it is my only one from Georgia.
> >
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