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

[Charles Bordelon]

Woody, I guess we AREN'T in Kansas anymore...  How I remember those daze...
(Yes, I dream in color.)  cb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Woody Woods" <woody.woods at umb.edu>
To: "Charles Bordelon" <legitintellexit at earthlink.net>;
<robert.dana at dnr.state.mn.us>; <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [moth-rah] why I prefer moths from Steve Johnson


> You bet-- I put together a teaching lab where we dissected 'em, Malphigian
> tubules, automatic transmissions and all,  and tested for presence of
> various enzymes in various organs ("and THAT'S what little cockroaches are
> made of...")
>
> Woody (not an axe-murderer, but occasionally a scalpel-murderer!)
>
>
>
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> William A. Woods Jr.
> Department of Biology
> University of Massachusetts Boston
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> > From: "Charles Bordelon" <legitintellexit at earthlink.net>
> > Reply-To: "Charles Bordelon" <legitintellexit at earthlink.net>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 17:01:46 -0600
> > To: <woody.woods at umb.edu>, <robert.dana at dnr.state.mn.us>,
> > <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [moth-rah] why I prefer moths from Steve Johnson
> >
> > Were you able to see their Malphigian tubules?  (hah hah)  cb
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
> >>
> >> *************************************************
> >> William A. Woods Jr.
> >> Department of Biology
> >> University of Massachusetts Boston
> >> 100 Morrissey Blvd
> >> Boston, MA 02125
> >>
> >> Lab: 617-287-6642
> >> Fax: 617-287-6650
> >> *************************************************
> >>
> >>> 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?
> >>>
> >>> *************************************************************
> >>> 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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