PROGRAM NOTES: 
SIEKER FARM (cont.) 
Combined species list 
(cont .) 
Coleoptera: 
Chrysomelidae - 
Curculionidae - 
Mecoptera: 
Panorpidae - 
Lepidoptera: 
Sphingidae - 
Saturniidae - 
Arctiidae - 
Notodontidae - 
Papilionidae - 
Pieridae - 
Danaidae - 
Satyridae - 
Nymphalidae - 
Lycaenidae - 
Hesperidae - 
Diptera: Asilidae - 
Bombyliidae - 
Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae - 
Torymidae - 
Arachnida - Dermacentor variabilis 
Calligrapha bident icola 
Labidomera clivicollis (larvae and adults) 
Pachybrachys (pubescens ?) 
Rhyne it es bicolor 
Rhyssomatus lineat icollis 
Panorpa banksi 
Cressonia juglandis 
Paonias excaecata 
Smerinthus geminatus 
Hyalophora cecropia 
Apantesis (virginicola ?) 
Haploa militaris 
Datana spp. 
Papilio cresphontes 
P. turnus (larva and adults) 
Colias eury theme 
Pieris rapae 
Danaus pi ex ip pus (obs.) 
Euptychia cyme la 
Boloria (toddi ?) 
Chlosyne nycteis 
Limenitis arthemis astyanax 
Nymphalis antiop a 
N. milberti 
Speyeria aphrodite 
S. idalia (one fresh specimen) 
Everes comyntas 
Lycaena thoe 
Satyrium falacer 
Ancyloxipha numitor 
Epargyreus clarus 
Polites origenes 
Thorybes pylades (poss. obs.) 
Ceraturgus ( cruciatus ?) 
Diplopoda - 2" -long yellow and black species (obs.) 
Reptilia - Northern brown snake and garter snake 
FERRY BLUFF COLLECTING TRIP - JULY 20, 1974 
The night was cool and a bit breezy. Worst of all, due to a mix-up in signals, 
nobody brought the sugar solution. A handful of faithful members stuck it out until 
just after sunset when Willis Flowers turned up and saved the day with a minimal 
supply of essential elements for mixing up a batch of the attractive potion, and a 
blacklight. Neither of the methods proved very lucrative this night, but at least 
everyone present got to see how this interesting type of activity is carried out. 
Perhaps more deer mice and flying squirrels were observed on the treated trees than 
underwing moths, but even that was an interesting experience. The following is a 
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