The enemy ants

[Charles Bordelon]

It's OK, James.  The domino effect...  I've lost one good specimen to a
Dermestid.  It was Apodemia multiplaga, and I believe it was only the 3rd
record for the US.  Of all the bugs...  You learn real quick what to do
about saving your specimens, but sometimes, at a very high price.  cb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. James Adams" <jadams at em.daltonstate.edu>
To: <TILS-leps-talk at yahoogroups.com>; <TILS-moth-rah at yahoogroups.com>;
<leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: The enemy ants


> Listers,
>
>          Well, I've had cockroaches eat some very unique specimens (part
of
> the wings of a bilateral gynandromorph white female/yellow male Colias,
and
> my only Schinia florida at the time), and had mice eat others (a Catocala
> maestosa comes to mind . . .), and psocids get almost all of one drawer of
> specimens that had been stored away during a move, and ants get some
> specimens in the tropics and actually work their way into a tightly sealed
> drawer of GA saturniids.  It *is* an extension of Murphy's law that the
> most important specimens on the boards are the ones they go after, and it
> is also true that when you become lax, leaving boards out instead of
> putting them away, that the specimen eaters will let you get away with it
> until you spread something *very* special.  That's what happened with my
M.
> cosmion.  I'd been leaving boards out for months with no problem.
>
>          However, although all this talk of experiences with specimen
> eaters is interesting, it was *not* the intent of my original message to
> start this thread (though I have no control over what you run with).  I
was
> trying to convey my enthusiasm for moths and the fact that, even this late
> in the year, and after 13 years of living in this area, I'm still getting
> plenty of interesting stuff, an remarkably several very unique specimens
in
> a very short period of time!
>
> James
>
> James K. Adams
> Phone: (706)272-4427
> FAX:  (706)272-2235
> Visit the Georgia Lepidoptera Website:
>     http://www.daltonstate.edu/galeps/
> Also check out the Southern Lepidopterists' Society new Website:
>     http://www.southernlepsoc.org/
>


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