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Patrick Coin commented on "Fighter of the first rank":
Species distinctive in the area of this photo--see http://bugguide.net/node/view/3027
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Patrick Coin commented on "Banded assasisn bug":
Species appears to be distinctive, see http://bugguide.net/node/view/51958
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Patrick Coin commented on an older version of Papilio polyxenes:
Appears to be a decent summary, with references.
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Patrick Coin commented on "Black Swallowtail Caterpillar - Papilio polyxenes":
Excellent shot of the defensive osmeteria. In this species, the defensive compounds are quite easy for humans to smell, based on my experience.
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Patrick Coin commented on "Black Swallowtail":
Nice shot of the female. Extensive blue on hindwing is thought to be mimicry of the Pipevine Swallowtail, Battus philenor. Male Black Swallowtail lacks this extensive blue patch.
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Patrick Coin commented on "Papilio polyxenes (Photo credit: Dexter Hinckley)":
A little bit washed out, so hidden, as EOL has many images of this species.
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Patrick Coin commented on an older version of Striking, but unidentified, wasp:
Photograph identified to species by ichneumon expert Bob Carlson ( http://bugguide.net/user/view/32977 ) on BugGuide--see comments at http://bugguide.net/node/view/463867/ and associated images.
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Patrick Coin commented on "Arizona emerald":
Testing comments back to Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/pcoin/7820729788/) --original "trust" message did not make it.
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Patrick Coin commented on "Asiatic Oak Weevil":
Compare images at http://bugguide.net/node/view/52987
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Patrick Coin commented on an older version of Disclisioprocta stellata (Guenee) - Bougainvillea Looper:
Appearance, hostplant association match other images found for this species.
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Patrick Coin commented on "Moth in the moodna...":
See images, etc. at http://bugguide.net/node/view/133506 for details on identification of this species.
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Patrick Coin commented on "EOL Curators":
@Cyndy Parr: Oh, fine. I set one of the decent photos from EOL as exemplar, so it will look a bit better now.
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Patrick Coin commented on an older version of Harlequin beetle:
Seems to be an adequate summary with references.
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Patrick Coin commented on "EOL Curators":
Here is an editorial issue, I feel. The media collection for the Harlequin Beetle, Acrocinus longimanus, is a mess. There are almost 300 images, most of them repetitive detail shots of specimens, and also low resolution images of specimen trays. Unless there is some curatorial/research purpose for these that I do not understand , almost the whole lot needs to be hidden so that the few useful images can be browsed. This would take a curator a very long time to do individually. Is there any way an administrator/programmer can do this in some sort of batch process? To me, the volume of media there really detracts from the species account. (Again, unless there is some documentary purpose for these images that is not obvious to me.)
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Patrick Coin commented on "Rocky mountain grasshopper (Melanoplus spretus). #6 is the male, #7 is a female.":
As the harvest from Wikimedia Commons is happening rather infrequently, here is a direct link to the full version on "Commons". See also the original at the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Plus, here is the Commons gallery on this species which should eventually be pulled into EOL.
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Patrick Coin commented on "Patent-Leather Beetle from Tree":
This is a teneral (freshly-emerged from the pupa). They apparently darken on aging.
