Hello Iowa Entomologists, I was out on a mesic prairie in Crawford County (west-central Iowa) yesterday morning with Kathy Koskovich (a DNR private lands...
Mark Leoschke
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Aug 5, 2004 2:45 pm
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Hello, This web site has wonderful photos of eastern moths: http://www.booksandnature.homestead.com/NewCTMoth.html Mark...
Mark Leoschke
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Aug 5, 2004 6:22 pm
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http://www.chias.org/biology/insect.html...
Mark Leoschke
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Aug 6, 2004 2:31 pm
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http://www.bfly.org/galleries.html...
Mark Leoschke
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Aug 6, 2004 3:03 pm
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Hello, This web site has the current and past newsletters. They contain interesting information on butterfly id, life history, book reviews, etc. Mark...
Mark Leoschke
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Aug 6, 2004 3:09 pm
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The Scout Report reviews all sorts of websites for potential academic use. This one on butterfly gardening was in this week's Report. It has lots of nice...
LL & RD Scarth
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Aug 8, 2004 4:05 pm
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Would it be beneficial to get something like this started in Iowa? I was a participant in the frog and toad survey a few years back, and the educational value...
I saw a couple of cloudless sulfurs today--one I saw was flying around and I wasn't able to confirm the ID, but I did see one drinking nectar on a wild ...
All you butterfly people may be interested in this story. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/10322944p-11243035c.html Steve Hummel Lake View...
Michael S. Hummel
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Aug 10, 2004 4:37 pm
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Anyone out there know anything about Iowa's velvet ants? For those of you who don't know, a velvet ant is a wasp which looks a lot like a hairy ant. The...
I don't know much about the ants but did find some at Rock Island Preserve in Cedar Rapids on Sunday. They were also in a sandy area. jim ... From: Harlan...
I just returned from the North American Prairie Conference in Madison, WI, which featured (among other informative talks) a talk on new invasive plant species...
This is the second year in 3 that I have had pipevine swallowtail caterpillars on my pipevines. As obvious as the black and orange caterpillars are, they...
MJ Hatfield
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Aug 15, 2004 6:46 pm
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MJ I am sure your beautiful caterpillar is a nice snack for some Blue Jay. So goes nature. David Edwards 2308 State Ave Ames, IA 50014-8344 ...
David Edwards
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Aug 16, 2004 12:14 am
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In a message dated 08/12/2004 8:46:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bugs@... writes: Anyone know anything about them like their life history, etc?...
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Aug 16, 2004 1:16 am
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Given that Pipevine Swallowtails are quite toxic to vertebrates, I doubt it. A parasitic wasp or fly is more likely to "control" your population. Mike Overton ...
Mike Overton
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Aug 16, 2004 12:37 pm
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Thanks, I hadn,t heard that. Dennis...
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Aug 16, 2004 2:01 pm
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If you want to observe and help the catapillars survive, you might want to purchase rearing sleeves and put around the catapillars while they are feeding. You...
Hi all, This afternoon I was out in Moorehead Park at Ida Grove in Ida County, Iowa, doing some surveying of odonates. In a large, open field about 200 yards...
Michael S. Hummel
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Aug 17, 2004 2:15 am
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August 28: Jasper County (south-central Iowa) John Pearson, a botanist for the Iowa DNR's Conservation and Recreation Division, and park manager Roger...
Mark Leoschke
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Aug 20, 2004 4:34 pm
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:12:53 -0500 From: "Angela Corio" <Angela.Corio@...> To: "Aaron Schmidt" <Aaron .Schmidt@...>, "Adam...
Mark Leoschke
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Aug 31, 2004 1:20 pm
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The pipevine swallowtails are emerging, both out in the yard and in the confined area where I fed 4 of them. Today was the first time I've ever (knowingly)...
Ann and Scott Swengel, who have done extensive research on prairie butterflies and birds will be at the IOU meeting Saturday the 25th. They expect to be here...
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Sep 22, 2004 3:07 am
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1. I am pretty sure I saw an American copper today. I did not get as good of a look at it as I would have liked to see the marking on the lower hind wing,...
Hello, I was on a state wildlife management area in Jasper County (central Iowa) today and looked under the bark of a dead elm for beetles. I did not see any...
Mark Leoschke
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Sep 24, 2004 9:30 pm
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Hello Dennis, How did the meeting go? Did you solve the mystery of the missing skippers? June beetles (scarabs) numbers seemed to be way down this year too. ...
Mark Leoschke
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Sep 27, 2004 7:05 pm
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Yes I also didn't see many june beetles. The big problem with the missing skippers is that now that they are gone or severely compromised on preserves, we need...
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