Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / December 2004

The text issue of  "The Yosemite Butterflies" by Ken Davenport should be in
the hands of all TTR (The Taxonomic Report) VOL 5 subscribers by Sat. Jan. 7
as the plan is for them to all be mailed out no later than Monday Jan. 3.
The text section is 75 pages long with about half of it ...

I would like to make you aware of my homepage, resently launched.
The site mainly consists of photographs of butterflies from Europe.
The adress is  http://imaginebutterflies.dk/  and it would be a previlege if
you pay the site a visit

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as much i hate flies, i think they serve a function.  they lay eggs on
sh.t and the maggots eat up the sh.t. they clean up the doo doo and
dead rotten flesh.
also, they are the best bait for fishing.

found this on my wall (seattle, WA) ...
http://decemberinfinity.net/images/wtf.jpg

anyone know which species are the crickets available in pet stores (USA)?
Peter

Although I keep mantids, I find that I am immediately repulsed by many
insects - particularly Roaches.
To what degree do you think this is an instinctive reaction, compared to
conditioned?

I am wondering what the deal is on Papilio rutulus and its being reared? I
have put out a number of requests for livestock in both summer and winter
months to aid in my research, and have spoken to a number of people and no
one seems to know of anyone who ever raises this species. ...

I found this fellow crawling on my pillowcase in Ann Arbor, MI.  Sorry
it's not a terribly clear picture, but a) he was covered in dust and b)
he was very very small.  (That's the pillowcase weave he's walking
across.)

I've been told that bedbugs are making a comeback in the US. Since
I sometimes like to scavenge for discarded electronics on the street
and in dumpsters, I'm concerned that I might inadvertently infest my
apartment with bedbugs.

This summer some weird bugs have showed up in my kitchen. They freaked
the heck out of me and my wife. Since I am not an expert at all, I
cannot give a good description, but here's what I saw:
- Lots of legs (about 15 pairs)

1)  I live in Northern California near Oregon and this summer I saw what
appeared to be the biggest spider I've ever seen walking around before.  
It was all black and when it saw me it quickly ran underneath the
building.  It was way too big to be a tranturala, or do trantulas ...

If you are not familar with "Google Scholar" check it out (search the names of
some of your favorite taxa or researchers):
http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html
This has huge potential.  I think our society would want abstracts of our