can anyone identify this bug. I've never seen it where I live before. it started out brown, large, hard shelled. over the last two hours, it has metamorphized...
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Carter Helen (Devon P...
helencarter@...
Aug 2, 2006 3:02 pm
Hello, I was wondering whether you could with identification of this bug that was found last week (end July) in my garden in Tiverton, Devon. I would really...
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David Howdon
davidhowdon
Aug 2, 2006 4:20 pm
looney0473 wrote:
> can anyone identify this bug. I've never seen it where I live before. > it started out brown, large, hard shelled. over the last two...
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Jean Michel Maes
jmmaes
Aug 3, 2006 8:27 am
Dear friends, This short note just to tell you that we are organizing a field trip in Nicaragua for dicember. 3 kinds of forests in 2 weeks, a good opportunity...
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Blanca Bolea
blanca_alamanac
Aug 3, 2006 2:30 pm
Estimado Jean Michel, He estado ojeando las giras y me encantaria participar, sin embargo, no puedo tomarme mas vacaciones hasta el 2007. Hay alguna prevista...
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sahyaraj
entraja2000
Aug 5, 2006 8:55 am
Me working on hunter reduviids. If any one interested to do bilateral joint research on reduviids you are most welcome. I need researcher interested in...
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wendy maitland
looney0473
Aug 7, 2006 7:44 am
I'm sorry i wasn't more specific. Northeast united stated (long island to be exact) attached it a picture. Since that email, the green bug with wings flew the...
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Matt Smith
matsmith60
Aug 8, 2006 9:25 am
It is a Cicada Regards Matt wendy maitland <looney4173@...> wrote: I'm sorry i wasn't more specific. Northeast united stated (long island to be exact)...
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wendy maitland
looney0473
Aug 8, 2006 7:29 pm
Thanks alot Matt Smith. i've recently moved to a beachy area and falling upon many insects that i've never come in contact with since I didn't in this area...
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logically_spock
Aug 8, 2006 10:50 pm
Hi all New member here. Where can I find ethyl acetate? I've looked in Drug and Hardware stores to no avail. Thanks, Mr. Spock...
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David Howdon
davidhowdon
Aug 9, 2006 6:41 am
logically_spock wrote:
> Hi all
> > New member here. Where can I find ethyl acetate? I've looked in Drug > and Hardware stores to no avail.
> > Thanks, >...
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Jack Schmidling
arf60152
Aug 9, 2006 8:32 am
... Paint stripper and laquer thinners used to contain this and it made an easy to find bug killer. Your only hope now is to scrounge around in old garages...
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Bug Club
bughunteruk
Aug 9, 2006 8:32 am
If you are in the USA, Bioquip is one of the best entomological suppliers. Ethyl Acetate is in their catalogue see page 50 at:- ...
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benjaminlandis
Aug 9, 2006 8:32 am
Dear AES Group: I am an aquatic insect lab technician from the US who will be vacationing in Britain soon, in England (mainly Durham) and Scotland (around Loch...
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Paul Stokell
micro_27_2000
Aug 9, 2006 8:33 am
Hi Mr Sprock You can use nail polish remover as it is ethyl acetate and acetone and the main components. Hope that this helps. Paul ... From: logically_spock ...
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Jack Schmidling
arf60152
Aug 9, 2006 8:04 pm
... I suspect you will find that it no longer contains ea. js -- PHOTO OF THE WEEK: http://schmidling.com/pow.htm Astronomy, Beer, Cheese, Fiber,Gems,...
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Andy Chick
glass_deviant
Aug 9, 2006 8:04 pm
if you are in the uk, watkins and doncaster, and as stated before nail varnish remover works a treat Andy...
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logically_spock
Aug 9, 2006 8:04 pm
Hi All I used some old nail polish on the foamy side of some velcro tape stuck to the lid of my killing jar to kill a Yellowjacket. It's main ingredient was...
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Andy Chick
glass_deviant
Aug 10, 2006 9:56 pm
depends on the insect, if killed blowflies in five minutes, yet know ground beetles keep "coming back" after hours in the jar, i find a jar about the size of a...
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Andy Chick
glass_deviant
Aug 10, 2006 9:57 pm
you can use nail polish remover containing acetone, which is still on general sale,...
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logically_spock
Aug 14, 2006 8:24 pm
Will acetone work just as well? I use it a lot in cleaning optical glass as I used to be a high-tech lens maker. Nothing beats acetone for cleaning glass but...
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jackieworsdell
Aug 14, 2006 8:24 pm
We have recently been visited by a strange bug in our backyard. It flys around similar to a dragon fly. It is dark metalic blue. The wierd thing about this bug...
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michelle montgomery
mpaulimonte
Aug 15, 2006 10:31 am
I am not familiar with canadian insects/arthropods, but it may be a sphecid wasp (Family Sphecidae also known as thread waisted wasps). Here in HI we do have...
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Andy Chick
glass_deviant
Aug 15, 2006 10:32 am
i find acetone as good as EA and easier to get hold of...
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Jack Schmidling
arf60152
Aug 15, 2006 2:59 pm
Gordy (our goat) was sniffing the ground in the woods last week, clearly trying to make sense out of something. When I went over to look, I found this...
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jackie worsdell
jackieworsdell
Aug 15, 2006 3:01 pm
Thanks so much. I looked up some pictures and yes it is a blue Mud wasp. We have a huge bolder rock retaining wall that has sand behind it so they must be...
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Malcolm Storey
bioimages2000
Aug 15, 2006 8:48 pm
Hi Ben, Don't think anybody answered this. Hope I'm not too late. Collecting regs: there are no general restrictions on pond dipping for inverts. far as I know...
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thepefman
Aug 20, 2006 1:01 pm
I found this bug on my property <http://thepef.blogs.com/insect.png> in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My research has turned up nothing. Maybe someone here can...
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bendetti_mama
Aug 20, 2006 3:03 pm
We found them on my parsley plant and looked them up on the net. One of them has already made a coccoon on a wood stick that I put in the jar. The other is...
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Matt Smith
matsmith60
Aug 21, 2006 10:15 am
Hi Joe Your 'bug' is a Robber Fly of the family Asilidae. They are active predators of other insects such as flies, grasshoppers and butterflies, but do not...
