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Post by rayrard on Oct 27, 2011 8:47:25 GMT -8
people's cats seem to be really bold. My cat never dares get near my boxes. I will lock the cat out when I have multiple boxes open but if I have one open on the table I'll let the cat hang around. I always keep an eye on him as he usually is just laying around, and I'll give him an evil eye if he's walking around the vicinity. I think he knows not to bother me when I'm near "those boxes". I've never lost a specimen on the boards and I've even left loose specimens around and the cat doesn't bother them (or know they are there). Drying specimens are left in a closet shelf where the cat has never reached. The worst thing ever happening is that the cat knocked over a stack of the temporary cardboard boxes and I lost a bunch of moths when the glass broke on one box and crushed them.  |
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Post by starlightcriminal on Oct 27, 2011 10:19:07 GMT -8
My cats do not care about dead bugs. The ones I rear, that's a whole other story. Twice one has snuck in under my feet and remained hidden until I closed the door and walked away, only to come back and find a bunch of dead "cat toys" smashed into a million pieces. Too hard to resist all that fluttering I guess. My parents have several dogs though, one of which loves dead insects for some reason. She can smell them out in the yard and will find their carcasses, usually beetles but the other frequent non-insects she likes are large Florida millipedes. She tracks them down and then she proceeds to roll all over them, as though she is trying to scent herself. I've not figured out why only she does it or why she does it all, but I did see a documentary on Lemurs in Madagascar that would purposely seek out millipedes to rub all over themselves. The theory was that it may have some anti-parasitic effect but it also clearly made the Lemurs intoxicated as indicated by their bobbling and falling out of trees. They would even share the millipede with their friends. So maybe they just like getting messed up. Who knows. Anyway, strangely similar to the behavior of this dog as well. Perhaps some cats detect something desirable about dead insects that most others do not. Generally, cats have a poor sense of smell (but an excellent very sensitive taste) so it's probably something else. I lose more specimens to my own carelessness than to anything else. How many times I have slipped and torn something or broken off legs or antennae I cannot count. Someone have a technique to scold your hands when they don't do what you thought they were going to?  |
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Post by starlightcriminal on Oct 27, 2011 10:26:26 GMT -8
One more thing- Eumorpha fasciatus I think occurs where you are. I found several larvae last week in my area, not last instar yet. This one is 'better' than H. lineata anyway, check around where you are on Ludwigia and you might get lucky. They like relatively moist habitats. Looks similar, but better.
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Post by jackblack on Nov 2, 2011 1:52:21 GMT -8
Comment from one reader above , doesn`t like furry animals , maybe they don`t like him as well he gives off bad vibes .
Furry animals are very sensative like some people , I had a cattle dog once , rest his poor soul if he had one , but out of every 100 people approx he met he picked the ones that didn`t like furry animals and certainly let them know with a good chomp on their ankles as they ignored him , with everyone else he was fine .
Some pets are a good judge of character.
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