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

[Charles Bordelon]

Were you able to see their Malphigian tubules?  (hah hah)  cb
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From: "Woody Woods" <woody.woods at umb.edu>
To: <robert.dana at dnr.state.mn.us>; <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [moth-rah] why I prefer moths from Steve Johnson


> 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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> > 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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