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

[Woody Woods]

Wrong! ... the department chairman here at UMass once pointed to a cockroach
in the department offices and said pointedly "is that one of yours?" (I have
used them in teaching labs)-- I could truthfully say that we used Blaberus,
not Periplaneta, which is what he had found-- heck, they're not so bad-- and
I shamelessly and probably accurately blamed the campus coffee house down
the hall... but yes, they still find their way into buildings even here in
New England, though not my house, yet...

Woody

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> From: "Robert Dana" <robert.dana at dnr.state.mn.us>
> Reply-To: robert.dana at dnr.state.mn.us
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 13:45:55 -0600
> To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
> Subject: Re: [moth-rah] why I prefer moths from Steve Johnson
> 
> 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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> MN DNR
> Natural Heritage and Nongame Research Program
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> St. Paul, MN 55155
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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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