Entomological help needed

[P. J. Alling]

The fruit eaters don't really impinge on my world much.  I think it's a 
sad thing that we can't stake the little blood suckers like proper 
vampires..  (The fact that the its only females suck the blood is only a 
bit ironic based on some of the women I've known, but without males the 
females wouldn't need too).

mike wilson wrote:
> Not all mosquitos are biters.  Even of the species that are, it's only the females.  You have to stop judging things by appearance.
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>> From: "P. J. Alling" <webster26 at mindspring.com>
>> Date: 2008/01/01 Tue AM 08:22:02 GMT
>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml at pdml.net>
>> Subject: Re: Entomological help needed
>>
>> I prefer the simple Kill the damned things, method with mosquitoes.  I 
>> expect there's little to dissect when you smash them.
>>
>> mike wilson wrote:
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>>> P. J. Alling wrote:
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>>>> Mark Roberts wrote:
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>>>>> "positive identification can only be achieved through 
>>>>> dissection of the male genitalia",
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>>>> Which the skipper would thank you for, if it were aware.
>>>> (which brings up two questions, where would you get the tiny scalpel, 
>>>> and would you use tweezers to manipulate it?
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>>> Moth genitalia are easy, compared to dissecting out the mouthparts of 
>>> Chironimidae mosquito larvae.  It's a difficult job but someone has to 
>>> do it....
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>>>> Mark Roberts wrote:
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>>>>> mike wilson wrote:
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>>>>>>> From: Mark Roberts <msroberts01 at ysu.edu>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can anyone help ID this fella?
>>>>>>> http://www.robertstech.com/temp/7d703021_Moth.jpg
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>>>>>> as already mentioned this is a Skipper butterfly, shown by the bend 
>>>>>> just before the club of the antennae. Excellent work to get such a 
>>>>>> good picture of one - these are usually as active as a caffiened-up 
>>>>>> Jack Russell. But they are notoriously difficult to identify. Good luck.
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>>>>> A list lurker sent me this link:
>>>>> http://www.toledo-bend.us/enlarge.shtml?caption=Silver-Spotted+Skipper+Butterfly&pic=gallery/skippers/IMG_40911w
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like my skipper.
>>>>>
>>>>> At least, that's what I'm going to call it. One web site I went to 
>>>>> noted that "positive identification can only be achieved through 
>>>>> dissection of the male genitalia", which is significantly more 
>>>>> involvement than I care for simply to get a photo caption (even though 
>>>>> I did have a pathologist with me when I got this shot).
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh yes: K10D and 16-50 f/2.8
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