oslari
Junior Member
My profile is of the great Hemileuca electra clio. Teenage lepidoptera hobbyist.
Posts: 43
Country: USA
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Post by oslari on Jan 12, 2022 21:55:05 GMT -8
Hello everyone,
Has anyone gotten their first moth of 2022 yet? Anything exciting? Maybe some of you folks in the western US have already started up their first light trap as I have. My first moth of 2022 was Anicla infecta, nothing too special! Happy New Year!
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Post by thejsonboss on Jan 30, 2022 14:51:39 GMT -8
A crambiid flew into my house the other day. Does that count?
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Post by vabrou on Feb 7, 2022 20:33:13 GMT -8
This has been an unusually cold January here in Louisiana, continuing freezing temps into Feb 7 now. My light traps run on automatic photo electric on-off controls regardless of freezing temps or torrential downpours or even hurricanes. I capture insects every day of the calendar year Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 mostly depending upon non-freezing temps. But this December and early January I captured a dozen specimens of a more pan-tropical pest lepidoptera. And I recently submitted a small 3-page manuscript about its occurrence in Louisiana, USA, titled: Hyblaea puera (Cramer, 1777) (Lepidoptera: Hyblaeidae) in Louisiana. This species is a major pest upon Teak trees especially in countries which have significant Teak plantations, e.g. Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
It was reported that cultivation of teak has greatly increased in Mexico. As of 2015, almost 20,000 ha (49,400 acres) are planted with Teak plantations especially in the southeastern Mexican states of Campeche and Tabasco, and the pest moth, H. puera is rapidly spreading in the teak plantations of these two states in recent years.
Here are a few images of H. puera I captured here at my home in Louisiana. Those two Mexican states are directly south of Louisiana about 3,000 km as the moth flies. So I expect to see a lot more of them in the future in my light traps. 
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