[ncsc-moths] Moth books ... and moths
- From: "Parker Backstrom" <dpbackstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <tn-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:26:56 -0500
Hey, everyone.
There has been talk of late regarding recent and upcoming publications on
lepidopterans. (By the way, it should be noted that our own Merrill Lynch
has two photographs in the new Owlet caterpillars book. Congrats, Merrill!)
With the exception of perhaps Hugh, who enjoys a front-row seat in this
endeavor that most of us view from somewhere in the back of the room,
learning about sources of information, including publications (old and new),
can be a challenge. Sometimes publications are long out of print by the
time word of them might trickle down to neophytes like me. So any
opportunity to pass along information is worthy of doing, me thinks.
As one example the U.S. Forest Service has relatively prodigious publishing
record with a number of very interesting works put out over the years. If
you were unaware, many of these are available on-line as pdfs. Here is a
link that will take you to a site where these publications can be found. A
relatively small number deal with leps but of that limited number many will
be of interest to those of us into moths and butterflies.
http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/technology/pub_titles.shtml
If you have a printer and plenty of colored ink cartridges and time you can
produce your own hard copies, perhaps of this (western leps) example:
http://www.fs.fed.us/foresthealth/technology/pdfs/FHTET_03_11.pdf
On the butterfly front, Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies by James and
Nunnallee has been drawing rave reviews. It is on sale this month at
Bioquip:
http://www.bioquip.com/specials/book_special.asp
. though available for just slightly less money through Amazon. The Bioquip
site, though, has a number of sample pages that give you an idea of just how
cool it is.
I encourage anyone who comes across any publications that might find a wider
audience here to share word. With many eyes and ears, and with more and
more interesting stuff being published all the time, I'd like to think we
can all mutually benefit from this service. Of course having the money to
SPEND on some/all of these things (e.g.
http://www.apollobooks.com/Pal_Macrolepidoptera.htm,
http://www.isbs.com/partnumber.asp?cid=
<http://www.isbs.com/partnumber.asp?cid=&pnid=294041> &pnid=294041),
especially at this time of year, might warrant careful consideration!
On a more personal note, the warm weather of late has produced an uptick in
moth activity in my yard in Chatham County. Last Saturday night I recorded
eleven species-Clepsis peritana, Eupethisia sp., Alsophila pometaria
(including my first female, like Lori's egg-laying on a sheet beside a
light), Phigalia denticulata, Paleacrita vernata (very worn), Eutrapela
clemataria, Galgula partita, Pseudaletia unipuncta, Hypena scabra, Eupsilia
vinulenta, and Metaxaglaea sp. (I didn't work too hard to figure it out;
probably )-all of which came to my black light, pretty decent for January 7.
This morning I recorded my first Feralia major of the year, the dark morph.
I haven't yet started baiting but plan to soon.
Lep on, everyone!
Parker
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