Just caught a large Agrius Cingulata by vapor light..very nice!

[thedude]

it will also be a matter of what havent the dermestids eaten.

i hate them.. i just got over a papperd inestation stock.. didnt have freezer room so i stored em in ammo cases and kept them in there for a year now there in the freezer for a month then ima fumagate them with moth balls and crystals

 

[Ted]

i hate them.. i just got over a papperd inestation stock.. didnt have freezer room so i stored em in ammo cases and kept them in there for a year now there in the freezer for a month then ima fumagate them with moth balls and crystals

i wanted to use crystals in my cases, but was warned that if i keep live inverts its a bad idea.
i need a mass fumigation room.

 

[thedude]

ive got airtight stuff... 1600$$ cabinets, plus a hole bunch of old empty cigar style boxes that are airtight (semi).

check bioquip.com for some cases if you just have homemade ones

 

[Ted]

ive got airtight stuff... 1600$$ cabinets, plus a hole bunch of old empty cigar style boxes that are airtight (semi).

check bioquip.com for some cases if you just have homemade ones

holy crap..thats cool!
wished i had some!

i checked them out, and just cant afford their cases[ not for as many bugs as i have[..would cost me a years income..lol...and unfortunately they dont make cases for large coleoptera..i need at least 4'' depth to house my goliath and megasoma..as well as the other huge specimens.
but i do need to make mine more airtight..its not easy, because dermestids are crafty..but it can be done.

 

[thedude]

holy crap..thats cool!
wished i had some!

i checked them out, and just cant afford their cases[ not for as many bugs as i have[..would cost me a years income..lol...and unfortunately they dont make cases for large coleoptera..i need at least 4'' depth to house my goliath and megasoma..as well as the other huge specimens.
but i do need to make mine more airtight..its not easy, because dermestids are crafty..but it can be done.

yes it can. but still ya never know how dermestids find there way in but they do.

id love to black light for the big beetles.. or catch one with a net lol

 

[Ted]

yes it can. but still ya never know how dermestids find there way in but they do.

id love to black light for the big beetles.. or catch one with a net lol

no doubt!!!
my plans are to get to collect in Columbia with my buddy this year.
some really nice specimens there!

 

[beetleman]

no doubt!!!
my plans are to get to collect in Columbia with my buddy this year.
some really nice specimens there!

when you do go there, take a bigger container with ya....i want 1 of those BEAUTIFUL columbian women:drool: i heard they do very well here in the states

 

[Ted]

when you do go there, take a bigger container with ya....i want 1 of those BEAUTIFUL columbian women:drool: i heard they do very well here in the states

:clap:
good one.

 

[Black Widow88]

That' s nice. Love the pink colour.

I agree very nice Sphinx moth. I wish they have them outside my light but you'd have to go upstate to find them. But we still get some really cool insects.

Black Widow88

 

[Ted]

I agree very nice Sphinx moth. I wish they have them outside my light but you'd have to go upstate to find them. But we still get some really cool insects.

Black Widow88

use a mercury vapor light, you might be surprised what you get

 

[Black Widow88]

I shall do that!

Black Widow88

 

[Ted]

I shall do that!

Black Widow88

heres a taste of the sheer amount of insects itll bring in.

[YOUTUBE]s3a-AMBlepo[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Black Widow88]

Holy shit!

I know what I want for x-mas......

Black Widow88

 

[thedude]

heres a taste of the sheer amount of insects itll bring in.

[YOUTUBE]s3a-AMBlepo[/YOUTUBE]

nice!... reminds me of when i black lighted in lak moomaw ,VA this year
there were thousands apon thousands of copper underwings.... i had to like shovle them away from the light w/ my hands and thats how i found 3-4 fiery searchers(catapiller hunters), a few carion beetles and got stung by a pretty large inchneumon

 

[Curry]

WOW! I gotta change to one of those lights!

 

[Ted]

WOW! I gotta change to one of those lights!

you wont regret it.
even better when you hang a large white sheet behind it.

 

[Drachenjager]

dude your soo lucky... but when ever i say that i alwase think do you midwest/west coats people say the same thing about us east coasters

WHY would we say that?

 

[thedude]

idk different looking bugs lol like big saturnid moths

 

[Black Widow88]

idk different looking bugs lol like big saturnid moths

Mind you I saw a Cecropia Moth this year upstate. It was awesome! I'm hoping that I'll get to see a live Luna moth someday. And I don't care where it is because I wanna see one that badly.

I love them and I think that they're so pretty.

Black Widow88

 

[Ted]

heres a few pics of my moths breeding and such.
these pics were taken six years ago.

you can see the size comparison between the cecropia and the atlas moths.