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

[James Taylor]

We have used the same exterminator firm for years which employs the scorched
earth approach. Annually, they poison around the house outside, take off
switch plates inside and squirt, I suppose, boric acid powder, inside, etc.
The treatment takes about 4 hours per visit, and they return on call (and
for free) if we see anything before the next year's treatment. We STILL see
the occasional cockroach - frequently feet up, but still in the house. They
live in the live oaks here, I think.

Jim Taylor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Dana" <robert.dana at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:45 PM
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
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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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