Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / November 2005

Hi,
I found this on http://www.monarchwatch.org/biology/pred2.htm
... Five species of mice are known to be abundant near the Mexican overwintering roosts of Monarch butterflies. Of these five, only the scansorial black-eared mouse, Peromyscus melanotis, eats Monarchs. Several ...

Does anyone please know of a group to which I could post scanned and/or
digital images of insects for the purpose of help with identification?
I have tried alt.binaries.pictures.nature but found that the necessary
level of knowledge is not forthcoming.

Hello there! This is the first time I use Newsgroups. :-) Im a photographer,
or a wannabe photographer. I like to take pictures on insects and nature. So
down below is some pictures of insects I have taken this summer.
Hope you guys like them

Nature has figured out how to control light in ways that rival some of
the most sophisticated human technologies, scientists have found.
(Story in World Science)
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/051117_butterflyfrm.htm

Hello! I took picture of this spider  in june this year. Anyone who know
anything about it? Its very tiny.
http://foto.jlw.se/krabbspindlar.jpg

On October 29, just across the river from Sault Ste Marie, Michigan, I
spotted these flies in my front yard.
They are SMALL, smaller than a mosquito, and are BLUE.   a lovely
milkpaint shade of medium blue.   What's really notable, is little

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http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=fk9sar

This spider is from some heather moor here in the Faroe Islands (North
Europe).
Does anyone know what species it is?
Here are 3 spider pictures:

Hello Lepidophiles,
There appears to be a small "invasion" of Disclisioprocta stellata (Somber Carpet) here on Long Island. Steve Walter found one at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn on Oct 19 (see http://www.hmana.org/mulberry/mow/mow.htm) and I found two this past Saturday, Nov 5 ...

I've found this *B. philenor* larval polymorphism here in north Texas as
well but as far as I can tell the reason for the difference is where you
find the larvae.  When oviposition occurs on *Aristolochia tomentosa* or
other pipevines found in shaded areas the larvae are dark.  ...

Here's a question that I've thought about for awhile...Does anyone see any consistent differences between Pipevines that occur along the East Coast and those, say; in Texas and the southwest etc. ???
Alex
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From: owner-leps-l@lists.yale.edu on behalf ...

Has anyone collected or found any Pipe vine Swallowtails in either eastern Pennsylvania or New Jersey?

Does anyone please know of a group to which I could post scanned and/or
digital images of lepids for the purpose of help with identification?
I have tried alt.binaries.pictures.nature but found that the necessary level
of knowledge is not forthcoming.

Dear Colleagues
I am the curator of a large museum of pinned insects. At present we are
canvassing alternative methods of pinned insect preservation without using
naphthalene. Our collection of approximately 100,000 specimens is currently