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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Sep 27, 2004 7:51 pm
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Hello, I just found out about this book today and browsed it briefly. It looks like a good read. Mark ...
While visiting Bellvue today, I saw at least 5 M Tortiseshells on flowers along the main street near the center of town. They were nectaring on some asters in...
Great Moth websites http://booksandnature.homestead.com/NewCTMoth.html http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/ndmoths/home.htm Neat site even if it's Costa Rica ...
MJ Hatfield
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Oct 10, 2004 2:42 am
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Hello Iowa Entomologists, The first web page in MJ's e-mail is by John Himmelman, who has written a wonderful book called "Discovering Moths: Nighttime Jewels...
Mark Leoschke
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Oct 11, 2004 1:50 pm
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I see on the archives of the NABA chat web site that federal funding for the Northern Prairie Research Center/USGS web site on butterflies has been ...
Harlan and all -- I don't know that the funding has been sufficient for quite some time. If odonata is any indication, the checklists and distribution maps...
I think the Iowa butterfly list is fairly complete. It does have limitations. One of the big things we have now is that we seem to be extirpating some of our...
IA- Butterfliers, Harlan, A.J.-- I received the following message from Paul Opler. Mike Overton Boone, IA Dear all, I have spoken with appropriate USGS...
Mike Overton
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Oct 15, 2004 11:21 am
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Hello Iowa Entomologists, This web page has supposedly been around since at least 2001, but I just now found it, despite doing like searches on the web in the...
Mark Leoschke
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Oct 18, 2004 3:49 pm
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Hello Iowa Entomologists, It turns out the Minnesota web page I e-mailed about earlier today also has photos of butterflies, moths, true bugs, etc. ...
Mark Leoschke
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Oct 18, 2004 9:12 pm
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Hello, The large number of mountain lion "sightings" in Iowa reminds me of a similar situation in Great Britian. Mountain lions are not native to Great...
Mark Leoschke
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Oct 22, 2004 2:21 pm
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Hello Iowa Entomologists, I found this web page last night. It has photos of type specimens of moths in the family Tortricidae. The photos are alphabetized...
Mark Leoschke
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Oct 25, 2004 1:57 pm
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The AP Environmental science teacher in the next room has an immature snake (7 inches) that the kids collected during a survey. Another student put a large ...
Is Ann Johnson on this list? (I think you are Ann.) Would you please email me privately as an email to you bounced back. Thanks. MJ Hatfield Ames...
MJ Hatfield
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Oct 30, 2004 3:17 pm
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Yesterday's warm temperatures proved once again that dragonflies are tough little critters. Most of what I saw where Autumn Meadowhawks, but in my yard I had...