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Pulk · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject: from ab: China

I was in China for 3 weeks...

The good camera, with pics of, among other bugs, some awesome black and orange roaches, was stolen, but here are some, possibly all, of the pics from the less good camera and recovered from the first one before it was stolen, of the more important inverts I saw there.

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These moths were ALL over, especially in Xi'an. The secondary wings (don't know the correct term) are bright red.

This centipede was at the Ming Tombs, and is still alive.

This big harvestman was right next to the Great Wall. It survived multiple flights but died eventually.

This was on the Great Wall.

The last city we stayed in before returning to Beijing, Lijiang, was AMOST LITERALLY covered in Nephila clavata. Especially around the little rivers, there were trees blanketed in their webs, and there were a few huge spaces filled with webs only attached to each other. I can't emphasize enough how ubiquitous they were.
I brought back 3 males, 3 female slings/juvies, and 2 adult females. Two males, 2 female slings, and 1 adult female died; the remaining male and adult female are currently sharing a web, but I doubt an egg sac will come of it. She's about 2.75 resting legspan.

I was able to bring the Nephilas and the pede back for free and legally, in my luggage, after calling the FWS, USDA, CDC, and SF Office of Wildlife Inspection, and filling out Declaration Form 3-177.

There are more bug photos but it'll be a while till I get them sorted out.

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here are the rest of them
a few are from my dad

dried centipedes in the airport!

arachnids

this gives you some idea of how the N. clavata were distributed

non-moth insects

moths

NBond1986 · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:27 am Post subject:

i gotta hand it to you.....

these are all some freakin awesome photographs!!! great job.
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Pulk · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:00 am Post subject:

thanks

i figured out how to take videos!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aEokmkH4mVY

cacoseraph · Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject:

all the pics are very nice

i especially like the last clavata pic! spider heaven Very Happy

Ronin · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:57 am Post subject:

Very nice pics Pulk. Sorry to hear about your camera.

cgrinter · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Solvang

Your first picture isn't a moth, it's a plant hopper, or Fulgoridae (at least in the Fulgoroidea). Awesome insects.

Pulk · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject:

ah, thanks! my dad took that one, i didn't see it in person. that's why i made that mistake

really

~Abyss~ · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject:

great pictures. I'm super jealous. Shocked

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Pulk · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject:

not my video... but you can see the town that was covered in N. clavata. COVERED.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_buN6R_v0

anh · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Anaheim CA

did you go through some insect market where they sold giant singing kaytdid and boxing cricket?

ftorres · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject:

Hello ALl
Jacob (pulk) those Katydid are so nice I wish you could have some of them. Theyh are very similar to the infamous Neobarrettia spinosa from Texas

regards

ftorres

PS on the form you filled out what else were allow to bring according to the permit????

Pulk · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:11 pm Post subject:

I'm pretty sure it was anything that's not on CITES, but you have to have less than 10 (or something like that)

ftorres · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 2:32 am Post subject:

what about beetles?????
any fees????

So you specified what you wanted to bring?????

regards

francisco

Pulk · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:47 am Post subject:

this is the form, there were no fees whatsoever.

I don't -think- they said anything about beetles or other potentially dangerous herbivores being a problem... they did confiscate the cricket/katydid thing at an airport (could have been for the crop-eating problems, but it was in my carry-on while the other bugs where checked.)