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

[Robert Dana]

When I was a kid in the deep south, it was the cockroaches (Periplaneta)
that used to eat my most valuable specimens off the boards. But nobody
has those things in their houses any more, right?

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Robert Dana, Ph.D.
MN DNR
Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program
500 Lafayette Rd, Box 25
St. Paul, MN 55155
651 297-2367
Email: robert.dana at dnr.state.mn.us
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>>> "Stanley A. Gorodenski" <stan_gorodenski at asualumni.org> 11/12/03
10:37:33 AM >>>
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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