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Date: Sat Sep 30, 2000 11:05 pm
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#34 From: "Ginny Krueger" <gingin58@...>
Date: Tue Sep 19, 2000 4:13 am
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A mantis landed on our windshield today as we drove slowly through a
neighborhood, we realized he was not dead and had survived after driving a
couple of miles.  We saved him and brought him home so our boys could watch him
until he was alright to release.  He lost an antennae and half a hind leg in the
fall.  Does anyone know if his limbs will grow back or will he be without them
for ever?

I know I should feed him fruit flies but just exactly where do I get them?  I
don't have any old potatoes or fruit...???  I am pretty cluless about this.

  I have done a pretty good research on this insect but could not find out these
answers. We put a small moth in his cage alive but we took off the wings, he did
not like that so we killed the moth and the mantids is eating it now.
How many days can they go without food?
Thank you so much!
Ginny K


Editors note, Hi Ginny,
Have a look at the Bug Club fact sheet on Mantids which answes most of your
questions it is located at:

http://www.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/mantids.html

For larger mantids (which I assume this is) you can try them on any small insect
such as a house fly. I seem to recall that limbs may grow back on developing
Mantids, but not if they are full grown.

There is also an AES leaflet on Mantids which is published by the AES. Look
through the leaflet publications at:

http://www.theaes.org

The Bug Club

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#32 From: <bugclub@egroups.com>
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#28 From: <bugclub@egroups.com>
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#27 From: Reg Fry <reg.a.fry@...>
Date: Thu Sep 14, 2000 11:19 pm
Subject: Identification of Bug 2 in Folder 1 - a Cicida species reg.a.fry@...
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This insect has been identified as one of the Cicida species. These are classified as members of the suborder Homoptera. There is an excellent article entitled "The Singing Cicidas" at the following site:

http://www.earthlife.net/insects/six.html

There are around 1500 species worldwide but only one in the U.K. which has the scientific name Melampsalta montana. Some of these insects have extremely long life cycles - up to 17 years!

There are several species in the USA. The photograph featured in Folder 1, bug 2 was taken in Rochester, NY. Some species cause serious damage to trees and plants particularly young ones.

There is another article dealing specifically with Cicidas in the USA which gives pictures of several species and also advice on controlling the damage which they cause. The title of this article is Periodical And "Dog-Day" Cicadas and it can be found at:

http://ohioline.ag.ohio-state.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2137.html

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#26 From: Reg Fry <reg.a.fry@...>
Date: Mon Sep 4, 2000 2:00 pm
Subject: Migrant Butterflies and Moths to the U.K. reg.a.fry@...
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This year looks like being one of the best years for Clouded Yellow
butterflies since 1983. Earlier in the season it looked as if it was going
to be a fairly poor year with reports of relatively small numbers of the
three main migrant butterflies - the Red Admiral, the Painted Lady and the
Clouded Yellow. However the offspring of these have appeared in much greater
numbers and for the first time ever I have had all three species feeding on
Buddleia in my garden. On the downside it is a sad reflection on the state
of the English countryside when the migrants significantly outnumber the
formerly common resident butterflies. In Essex where I now live many of the
finest butterflies such as the Large Tortoiseshell, Purple Emperor,
Pearl-bordered Fritillary and Silver-studded Blue have been lost completely
and most of the commoner species have suffered significant declines in their
numbers.

On the moth front there was a widespread migration of the Humming-bird
Hawkmoth in the middle of June and they were reported right across the South
of England and northwards up to at least Dumfries where they were seen on
the 19th June. The Silver Y moth has also arrived in large numbers and as it
is a day flier can be seen feeding alongside the butterflies. There has also
been a single report of a very rare migrant being found in Colchester - a
Death's Head Hawkmoth!

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Date: Mon Sep 4, 2000 12:35 pm
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#24 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Sun Sep 3, 2000 3:09 pm
Subject: Re: Cow killer ant bugclubquestions@...
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In case you cannot access the picture site mentioned in the original message there are several other sites showing colour pictures of this unusual insect including:

http://troyb.com/photo/gallery/063-08-CowKiller.htm

Although it is commonly called an ant it is in fact a flightless wasp with the scientific name Dasymutilla occidentalis. The females lay their eggs in bumblebee nests and the Cow Killer larvae then feed on the bee larvae.

According to the following site it is found from New York south to Florida and the Gulf states, west to Texas.

http://www.aqua.org/animals/species/venom/cowkiller.html

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#22 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Sat Sep 2, 2000 12:38 pm
Subject: Pests in the House and garden bugclubquestions@...
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Re message 3, a picture of a House Centipede can be viewed at:

http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegal/myriapoda/chilopoda/scutigera.html

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#21 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Fri Sep 1, 2000 1:20 pm
Subject: The AES Bulletin June 2000 - Contents bugclubquestions@...
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Contents of the June 2000 Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society

MAIN ARTICLES:-
Collecting in Kazakhstan
Leaf cutting ants
Observations on the parasitoid Eulophus ramicornis Fabricius
On boilers and butterflies
The no-spot ladybird
The virtues of spindle
UFO crash-landing incident, Oxfordshire, 1997!

INSECT CONSERVATION NEWS:-
NEWS VIEWS AND GENERAL OBSERVATIONS:-
New UK legislation for countryside access: problems for field studies?
Internet discussion and e-mail groups for deadwood and moths
Arable Area Payments: new rules could harm farmland wildlife
Ivermectin and other drugs affecting non-target invertebrates
New Lepidoptera Liaison Officer for Wildlife Trusts
SITES AND SPECIES OF INTEREST:-
Legal protection for moths: tough on collectors; soft on destroyers?
Review of jumping spiders (Salticidae) in Gloucestershire, SW England
The Castle Eden Argus Butterfly
Devon survey of the Great Green bush cricket, Tettigonia viridissima
Woodland interior invertebrates: Somerset survey

Shorter Articles:-
Butterflies of Cyprus - Records* please!
Foodplants for the Elephant hawk-moth
Wildlife enrichment
Millennium Peacock
The first and last of the new and old millennia?
S. Tenerife - A collectors tale
An unusual prey for a Tiger beetle larva
Greenfly problems
Hibernating Stag beetles

*Note this is to add to Eddie Johns recent AES publication Butterflies of Cyprus 1998 (records of a years sightings). See the AES website at www.theaes.org for further details

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#20 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Fri Sep 1, 2000 8:57 am
Subject: Why doesn't my Stick Insect lay eggs? bugclubquestions@...
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George Wake wrote:

I have got some Macleay's Spectres, the female keeps laying these red things each time they mate but nothing like eggs can you tell me what these red things are please?

Editors note: After checking in Paul Brocks book 'Rearing and Studying Stick and Leaf-insects', I suspected that they were spermatophores which the male produces to pass sperm to the female. Paul later confirmed that the red things were used spermatophores which the female ejects after mating. He suggested that if the female is not laying eggs perhaps George is letting the males mate too often so she never gets a chance to start egg production?

George replied later: Thanks for your advice, the female has now laid 2-3 dozen eggs!

[Macleay's Spectre are sometimes called the Giant Prickly Stick-insect and in Australia the Spiny Leaf-insect its scientific name is Extatosoma tiaratum].

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#19 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Mon Aug 28, 2000 9:14 am
Subject: Re: African Land snails bugclubquestions@...
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Editors note: Dave lives in South Devon, U.K.
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:18:06 -0000
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Subject: [bugclub] African Land snails

Hello, I am trying to obtain some Achatina Achatina and Achatina Marginata African snails,I have quite a few of the more common Achatina Fulica.Can anybody help ? many thanks. Dave. -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> GET A NEXTCARD VISA, in 30 seconds! Get rates of 2.9% Intro or 9.9% Ongoing APR* and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://click.egroups.com/1/7872/3/_/_/_/967362386/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: bugclub-unsubscribe@egroups.com

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#18 From: daveburt@...
Date: Fri Aug 25, 2000 10:18 am
Subject: African Land snails daveburt@...
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Hello,
      I am trying to obtain some Achatina Achatina and Achatina
Marginata African snails,i have quite a few of the more common
Achatina Fulica.Can anybody help ?

                  many thanks.

                             Dave.

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#17 From: theresa@...
Date: Fri Aug 18, 2000 7:34 pm
Subject: Pure White Catepillar theresa@...
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I saw on my outdoor banister yesterday morning, a pure white catepillar with
a pair of antennae at both ends.  The body was dark brown or black.  Does
something like this exist?  My first reaction was 'albino'.  Is that
possible?  I live in Southern New York State in the US.

Regards,
Theresa

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#16 From: brianprice@...
Date: Fri Aug 25, 2000 11:54 am
Subject: Help! Identification required brianprice@...
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I would like help in identifying two bugs I photographed on a recent holiday in
Scotland in June.

The enormous fly with a body about 20mm long (fly1.jpg) was shot at Loch Tarff,
and the silver beetle (beetle2.jpg) was on the car door when we returned to the
car park at Loch Knockie, both in the Highland region.

The rule was shot to the same scale as the insects, and is reasonably accurate.

Brian Price

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#15 From: JAXBOXEDN@...
Date: Tue Aug 22, 2000 10:51 am
Subject: Strange insect JAXBOXEDN@...
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Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 16:52:36 EDT
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Subject: strange insect

I found this insect late at night (around 1am) sometime between march and may, I live in New Orleans, La. USA. I have attached pictures of the insect hoping it will help to identify it. Please let me know of any results you may have. Sincerely, Jack Boles EDITORS NOTE: The pictures can be found in folder 1 Bugs from America Bug 1 - upper and under sides.

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#14 From: ebbinghaus@...
Date: Mon Aug 21, 2000 5:38 pm
Subject: Cow killer ant ebbinghaus@...
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Hello,
I saw a cow killer ant this weekend on a dirt road. It was fuzzy red
and black and looked like a bee without wings. My bug book said it
is only in the lower states. I live in upper Michigan. Did I misidentify
this? Could it of been one? I really need to know. It was a thrill if
it was one!

Editors note:
There are details of this insect and a picture at:
http://www.radix.net/~tpmsi/page16.html
sounds like quite a vicious beast!

Perhaps someone will advise on its known distribution in the states.

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#13 From: slrclark@...
Date: Sun Aug 20, 2000 1:25 pm
Subject: unknown [to me] insect slrclark@...
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I am an American who lives in Lakeville, Minnesota.
I discovered an insect I had never seen before in my dining
room.  It is a green and black\brown insect.  Its primary color
is green.  Its legs are green.  Its head is green.  Its eyes are
yellowish brown.

Its approximately 3/8 - 1/2 inch long.

It has wings in the back but only attempts to fly to upright itself.

Its front legs are similar to a mantis's.  They are small near the
body.
The next section is quite large.  At the end is a hook which it uses
to grip on to my arm or to scrape at things which it then inserts
into its mouth.

The back legs resemble a typical ant's legs.  They are long and thin.
They are approximately twice as long as the front legs.

The head is lower than the bottom of most of its body.  The back
behind the front legs are its most elevated area with two upraised
brown\black knobs on the outsides.  Analogous to an American football
player's shoulder pads.

Its wings descend back and down from here.  The wings nest in
the back parallel to the abdomen without extending outside or beyond
the bottom of the abdomen.  The back has protrusions beyond the wings
in which the wings rest.  These protrusions are mostly green
with some black\brown which causes the back from above to look like a
leaf.

Please let me know if you can identify this insect.  I am thinking it
is some relative of the mantis.


Thanks,

Steve

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#12 From: Reg Fry <aeseditor@...>
Date: Sat Aug 19, 2000 3:05 pm
Subject: Praying Mantids - Help Wanted aeseditor@...
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The Amateur Entomologists' Society is hoping to publish a second more
comprehensive handbook dealing with Praying Mantids some time next year. We
are looking for colour illustrations and have so far been given a large
number of slides. Unfortunately they were lacking any information relating
to the country of origin or to the species or even family names.

We would be grateful if any experts/enthusiasts reading this note will have
a look through the pictures and let us have any ideas as to their identity
and possible location/distribution. We will put up additional pictures as
and when we have time to scan in the slides. The first set of pictures are
located under 'Files' on the bugclub egroup site and can be downloaded from
the Praying Mantids Folder. We would of course welcome the loan of
additional named slides/prints to help us produce a good quality handbook;
also any interesting facts, history, details of museum collections etc.
relating to Praying Mantids.

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#10 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Thu Aug 17, 2000 5:50 pm
Subject: Hummingbird or Bug? bugclubquestions@...
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I live in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA.

I have noticed a bug sucking nectar from the flowers in my flower bed. It has a beak like a hummingbird but has antennae. It flutters at the flowers just like a hummingbird. It's color is gold on it's body and has brown at the bottom almost like small feathers. It's legs are insect like. My husband keeps saying it is a hummingbird but I believe it is some sort of bug.

Can you help me?

Joanne Beard

Editors Note: We get a lot of queries similar to this from Europe as well as the USA. In Southern Europe there is a super moth called the Hummingbird Hawkmoth (scientific name Macroglossum stellatarum). This moth is usually seen by day preferring to fly in bright sunlight and feeds from flowers while it hovers in mid air. It is a very rapid flier and darts from flower to flower. It is a migrant to the U.K. and has been seen this year from the south coast of England right up to at least Dumfries. Unfortunately it cannot survive over the winter in the U.K.

There are many Hawk or Sphinx Moths found in the USA and Joannes 'bug' was possibly one of these. Most Hawkmoths fly at night but a few found in the USA also fly in the day like the European Hummingbird Hawkmoth. There are thumbnail pictures of over 100 North American Hawk and Sphinx Moths starting at the following web page. You can look at all these to see if one of these could be the species you have seen:

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/MOTHS/thumb/51.htm

Perhaps an enthusiast from the USA can let us know which of these are likely to be the 'hummingbirds' that are so often reported to us.

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#9 From: kristin_maling@...
Date: Wed Aug 16, 2000 6:30 pm
Subject: Praying mantids : where/how to purchase? kristin_maling@...
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hello,

I'm located in Toronto, Canada and I'm wondering if anyone can help
me  in finding a way to attain Praying Mantids?  I don't want to just
grab one from the wild so i'm hoping someone can help me in locating a way of
attaining one [or eggs?].

If anyone has any info, please email me at kmaling@....

thanks,
kristin.

Editors note:
I'm sure there must be several suppliers in Canada as many people rear them
around the World these days - perhaps someone will put the reply on this
noticeboard to help others. The Amateur Entomologists' Society has a leaflet
explaining how to look after these species - see the AES website at
www.theaes.org

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#8 From: "Kieren Pitts" <Kieren.Pitts@...>
Date: Thu Aug 17, 2000 9:27 am
Subject: AES Bug Club Magazine contents - August 2000 Kieren.Pitts@...
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The August 2000 issue of the AES Bug Club Magazine will be sent out
at the end of this month.

The major articles featured are:

Editorial & What's Bugging - Entomological diary of events
Insect Fact Sheets - The House Cricket (_Acheta domesticus_)
Annual Exhibition details (see the Bug Club website for more details)
Edinburgh Event Report
Hold that Tiger - Breeding the Cream Spot Tiger Moth
Doodle Bug - Pictures sent to us by BC members
Iping Common Event Reports
Caresheet 19 - Assassin Bugs
Insect Asides - The Common Backswimmer

Kieren Pitts
AES Bug Club Chairman

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#7 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Wed Aug 16, 2000 4:12 pm
Subject: Can you identify this moth? bugclubquestions@...
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Cameron Kerr writes from the U.K.:
I wonder if you can help me identify an insect. It flew into a window and was caught on camera before it fell off/flew off again.

Editors note:
You can view the picture of this by 'clicking' on the Files folder - then select File 2, Moth 1.
It looks like a small moth called the White Plume Moth which has the scientific name Pterophorus pentadactyla.

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#6 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Wed Aug 2, 2000 10:32 am
Subject: Message 2 update - can you identify this insect? bugclubquestions@...
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Having had a look at the picture of bug1, Kieren Pitts thinks the moth is a similar species named the Pandora Sphinx Eumorpha pandorus. These moths occur in the eastern part of the United States and the south eastern parts of Canada.

The caterpillars of this moth feed on Virginia creeper, ampelopsis and both wild and cultivated grapes. The adult moths feed on nectar from the flowers of petunia, bouncing bet and white campion.

I think he is right with this identification but perhaps someone in the US can confirm this for us.

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#5 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Sun Jul 30, 2000 12:13 pm
Subject: AES Bug Club Magazine - Contents February - June 2000 bugclubquestions@...
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The following is a list of the main articles in the Bug Club Magazine so far this year:

February:
INSECT FACT SHEET - The American Cockroach
A NOVICE KEEPS Acromyrmex (leaf-cutter ants, for picture see Bug Club Pictures folder in File)
Ants in the Millennium Dome
FROM HOME TO DOME (Moving a colony of leaf cutting ants to the Dome)
The Unknown Canary Islands Bug
CARESHEET 16 - Ground Beetles
INSECT ASIDES (Woodlice)

April:
INSECT FACT SHEET - Scorpion flies (Panorpa and Boreus species)
Soldier Beetles
HAWK MOTH DIARY (Cephonodes hylas bred by a Bug Club member from Japan)
CARESHEET 17 - Giant Centipedes
INSECT ASIDES (Nursery Web Spider)

June:
INSECT FACT SHEET - Madagascan Giant Hissing Cockroach (For picture see BCP folder in File)
Insect Life Cycles
INTERESTING CATERPILLARS TO BREED N0. 6 - The Prominents
PHEW - Thank goodness for the Bugs (Their role in maintaining the environment)
CARESHEET 18 - Fruit Flies
INSECT ASIDES (Harvestmen)

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#4 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Thu Jul 27, 2000 12:23 pm
Subject: A ferocious looking bug - the Dobsonfly bugclubquestions@...
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We have also had quite a few queries from the U.S.A. concerning a ferocious looking bug which is about 3-4 inches long or even longer. From the descriptions (and a few photographs) that have been e-mailed to us we suspect that most sightings are of a bug which is called the Dobsonfly Corydalus cornutus. A photograph of a male Dobsonfly which has been e-mailed to us can be downloaded from the insect folder (bug 2) in the File opposite. This is a male which has long, sickle-shaped mandibles. The female has shorter stag-like jaws and a picture of this can also be downloaded (bug 3). The larvae of this insect are aquatic, they live for around 3 years and apparently can inflict a painful bite! This insect is not resident in the U.K.

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#3 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Thu Jul 27, 2000 9:20 am
Subject: Pests in the House and Garden bugclubquestions@...
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We are still getting a great many questions concerning insects and pests
which have been found in the house, particularly from the U.S.A. The vast
majority of questions have been about a muliti-legged creature found inside
houses for which we have been sent several pictures. These were most
frequently confirmed as being the House centipede. If you live in the U.S.A.
there is an excellent website  which you should search through before asking
for our help. This is produced by Ohio University and can be found at:

http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline/hyg-fact/2000/index.html

Please let us know if you find the Ohio site useful. If you have a good
quality colour photograph of the House centipede please sent it to this site
as an attachment to an e-mail and we will add it to the pictures stored in
the FILES folder. Please do NOT send messages to this site asking for advice on
pest control.

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#2 From: BugClubQuestions <bugclubquestions@...>
Date: Tue Jul 25, 2000 10:55 pm
Subject: Can you identify this insect? bugclubquestions@...
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To start this archive off, Gloria Vila wrote from Baltimore MD U.S.A. on 27 July asking if we could identify a moth which she had photographed using a digital camera.

It is always more difficult to identify a moth without seeing the live specimen. We were pretty sure it was a member of the family Sphingidae known in the U.K. as Hawkmoths also widely known as Sphinx moths. We only have a few of these species in the U.K. but there are well over 100 recorded in the U.S.A. It is a bit like the Lime Hawkmoth Mimas tiliae we find here but after looking through pictures of those resident in the U.S.A. we believe it to be a Satellite sphinx Eumorpha satellitia. Perhaps a local enthusiast can confirm this for us? The picture can be can be downloaded from the Insect Queries folder; Bug 1

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