Notes From Nature Talk
Essig database gives collection date as July 9, 1907. Should be 1967
The label says L. Calif, which usually means Lower, or Baja Calif., but Essig database says Riverside county, USA. Any guidance?
Problem - label seems to give collection date of IX-15-1982 (date show in Essig database), but species determined 1981
In Essig database as collected Mar 11, 1934 - should be Nov. 11, 1941?
One of 3 samples collected by W.D. McLellan at Westgard Pass listed in Essig database as collected 1958, ID'd by Gloyd 1954. Coll. 1953?
Can't figure out hand-written label
Label obscured
Would like second opinion on name of this collector - Brainerd?
Can't make out the town on this tag - there is a Fobb in Marshall county OK, but not sure
The location given in the Essig database is Lodi, but I believe the label actually says Indio.
Two similar entries in the Essig database, Manduca sexta collected in Palmdale, collector always illegible on label
This is entered in the Essig Specimen Database as collected June 21, 1937, but I think it should be May 21, 1937
Location partly hidden - Dry Creek?
Month not visible.
Does Tahoe refer to the community now called Tahoe City in Placer county, or just Lake Tahoe in general?
Ash Mtn? HQ., and is date April 3 or 30?
Center label (with name of collector?) illegible
Year hidden by wing
Year 198?
I thought it was Sept 5, 1953
Looks like 190 was changed to 1916; database says Stinchfield collected mostly 1915/1916, so went with 1916
Hosackia americana
Cell 2, Cell E, Cell L?
Keeps appearing
Alaska Highway ?-1331
Species name shown on tags - diclssmi?
Looks like the 1907 may have been changed to 1917, but not sure.
Year collected shown as 1873 -assumed it was typo for 1973
Month out of frame - probably 8 but not sure.
Any way to know where Miguel is located?
1992 or 1892 -style of label suggests older date, but not sure.
Could use second opinion on day shown - 21, 22, cross-out to make 2?
Location partially obscured, but went with Rillito in Pima Co.
Ft. Collins, CO?
Cannot find anything on this location except a Kariakaria lake in Guyana
Cannot find any community name in Sonoma Co. even close to Triuili (?)
Year obscured by wing- went with 63
Can't make out anything except San Bruno and San Mateo Co.
Tag cut off (or bent under?)
Date - 8-20-25?
Bottom line of handwritten tag - Timb. det. (Ckll.)?
Can't make out location - San---? Cany.?
Year 1926 or 1936?
Date? 13-6?
Cannot make out date or name
Year obscured by wing
Is Audran L. a place or the collector? I can't find any Audran Lake for El Dorado county.
Could use second opinion on date - Feb. 29, 1936?
Upper ?lures Meadow
Can't make out the month.
Ricardo campground in Red Rock Canyon State Park in Kern county?
Need help with this location - any ideas?
Date looks like VII - V - 1949; July 5?
July - Aug 1981?
Could use second opinion on year - 193?
Bend of GIla Bend hidden under abdomen?
Two locations shown - any way to know which is correct?
Can't make out top handwritten label
Label says Mono county, but Canby is in Modoc county
Can't make out handwritten note.
Year 1949?
Batero? Beach
Can't make out what is written on the top label.
Niles Canyon in Alameda county?
The printed label says 1 June 1968 but the handwritten label looks more like June 27 to me.
Month Sept or Oct?
Date - Sept 20 or 26?
Could use 2nd opinion on year - 1931 or 1951?
Need help with the year - looks like VI - 7- 04, but Lassen Nat. Park wasn't established until 1916.
Would like 2nd opinion - looks like label has been altered with red ink to give date of Sept. 1917
Problem - collection date given as VIII-1977, but other label says Det. Dennis Paulson 1975
Have seen this image 4-5 times, could never make out the complete name. Went with Mrs. Metta(?) Johnson.
Could use second opinion about date - 2-IV-57?
Date - May 15?
Can't see how many miles south of Opelousas.
Can't make out the county here. San Diego or San Bdn'o? There was a Frontier Town in both.
Once again the pin has been used to erase a letter from a plant species - haven't been able to guess this one.
Two separate collections shown - is H. Chandler Collection an assembly of other collections?
Second opinion appreciated - has the month been altered to change VII to VI?
Blurry date - July 28, 1963?
Location - San Berdo. Mtn? or San Berdo. Mw?
Date of Aug. 19, 1984?
Year - 1942 or 1992?
Year of collection - 1915 or 1925?
OK to assume this is Santa Ana river north of Chino in San Bernardino county?
Year of collection 1912?
Last name of collector - Childs?
Web search didn't locate a Devils Basin in Calif. at this elevation. Anyone know the county?
Too blurry to make out - needs to be re-photographed
Top label too faint - maybe year 97, maybe Fresno?
Need some help with this name - Vino, Vina, Vinol?
Second opinion on the year shown here - 56, 52?
Label too blurry to make out location, date
Would appreciate comfirmation on this name - Stinchfield?
Date clearly says VII-12-24, but this seems too early for J. A. Powell - any suggestions?
Westwood Jct. is in Lassen county, Wilson Lake is in Tehama county, so put unknown county
Year obscured by wing - 1984?
Could use some help with this location
Need a second opinion about the name of this location - El Fazon, El Razon, ?
Label half out of frame
could use help with date - Aug. ? 1959?
Could use help reading this date - Aug. ? 1969?
Puzzled by this label - Mono lake is entirely within Mono county, CA
bugs collected by the Michelbachers usually contain a label with a number such as 805.2 above. Is this elevation, or something else?
There is a San Felipe Creek in both Imperial and Santa Clara counties. Any way to tell which is meant here?
Is it safe to assume this is Corona in Riverside county, CA?
Appreciate a second opinion - is the year of collection 1953 or 1963?
Would appreciate a second opinion - is the year 60 or 66?
Aug. 21, 1951 ?
Date looked more like Sep 19, 1957 to me
Solano county is crossed out, but there is a Rio Vista in Solano county, so I entered it under county
I assumed this reads Niles Canyon (Alameda county). Agree?
Can't tell if this date should be 1999 or 1899. Any suggestions?
Have made several attempts to decipher date and name here - any help?
Move insect's tail off year and redo photograph
Cannot find the location of Bison, Montana
year obscured by wing - entered 1968?
year of collection obscured by abdomin
scirbbled notes are illegible
Year, plant species illegible
Essig database gives collection date as July 9, 1907. Should be 1967
The label says L. Calif, which usually means Lower, or Baja Calif., but Essig database says Riverside county, USA. Any guidance?
Problem - label seems to give collection date of IX-15-1982 (date show in Essig database), but species determined 1981
In Essig database as collected Mar 11, 1934 - should be Nov. 11, 1941?
One of 3 samples collected by W.D. McLellan at Westgard Pass listed in Essig database as collected 1958, ID'd by Gloyd 1954. Coll. 1953?
Can't figure out hand-written label
Label obscured
Would like second opinion on name of this collector - Brainerd?
Can't make out the town on this tag - there is a Fobb in Marshall county OK, but not sure
The location given in the Essig database is Lodi, but I believe the label actually says Indio.
Two similar entries in the Essig database, Manduca sexta collected in Palmdale, collector always illegible on label
This is entered in the Essig Specimen Database as collected June 21, 1937, but I think it should be May 21, 1937
Location partly hidden - Dry Creek?
Month not visible.
Does Tahoe refer to the community now called Tahoe City in Placer county, or just Lake Tahoe in general?
Ash Mtn? HQ., and is date April 3 or 30?
Center label (with name of collector?) illegible
Year hidden by wing
Year 198?
I thought it was Sept 5, 1953
Looks like 190 was changed to 1916; database says Stinchfield collected mostly 1915/1916, so went with 1916
Hosackia americana
Cell 2, Cell E, Cell L?
Keeps appearing
Alaska Highway ?-1331
Species name shown on tags - diclssmi?
Looks like the 1907 may have been changed to 1917, but not sure.
Year collected shown as 1873 -assumed it was typo for 1973
Month out of frame - probably 8 but not sure.
Any way to know where Miguel is located?
1992 or 1892 -style of label suggests older date, but not sure.
Could use second opinion on day shown - 21, 22, cross-out to make 2?
Location partially obscured, but went with Rillito in Pima Co.
Ft. Collins, CO?
Cannot find anything on this location except a Kariakaria lake in Guyana
Cannot find any community name in Sonoma Co. even close to Triuili (?)
Year obscured by wing- went with 63
Can't make out anything except San Bruno and San Mateo Co.
Tag cut off (or bent under?)
Date - 8-20-25?
Bottom line of handwritten tag - Timb. det. (Ckll.)?
Can't make out location - San---? Cany.?
Year 1926 or 1936?
Date? 13-6?
Cannot make out date or name
Year obscured by wing
Is Audran L. a place or the collector? I can't find any Audran Lake for El Dorado county.
Could use second opinion on date - Feb. 29, 1936?
Upper ?lures Meadow
Can't make out the month.
Ricardo campground in Red Rock Canyon State Park in Kern county?
Need help with this location - any ideas?
Date looks like VII - V - 1949; July 5?
July - Aug 1981?
Could use second opinion on year - 193?
Bend of GIla Bend hidden under abdomen?
Two locations shown - any way to know which is correct?
Can't make out top handwritten label
Label says Mono county, but Canby is in Modoc county
Can't make out handwritten note.
Year 1949?
Batero? Beach
Can't make out what is written on the top label.
Niles Canyon in Alameda county?
The printed label says 1 June 1968 but the handwritten label looks more like June 27 to me.
Month Sept or Oct?
Date - Sept 20 or 26?
Could use 2nd opinion on year - 1931 or 1951?
Need help with the year - looks like VI - 7- 04, but Lassen Nat. Park wasn't established until 1916.
Would like 2nd opinion - looks like label has been altered with red ink to give date of Sept. 1917
Problem - collection date given as VIII-1977, but other label says Det. Dennis Paulson 1975
Have seen this image 4-5 times, could never make out the complete name. Went with Mrs. Metta(?) Johnson.
Could use second opinion about date - 2-IV-57?
Date - May 15?
Can't see how many miles south of Opelousas.
Can't make out the county here. San Diego or San Bdn'o? There was a Frontier Town in both.
Once again the pin has been used to erase a letter from a plant species - haven't been able to guess this one.
Two separate collections shown - is H. Chandler Collection an assembly of other collections?
Second opinion appreciated - has the month been altered to change VII to VI?
Blurry date - July 28, 1963?
Location - San Berdo. Mtn? or San Berdo. Mw?
Date of Aug. 19, 1984?
Year - 1942 or 1992?
Year of collection - 1915 or 1925?
OK to assume this is Santa Ana river north of Chino in San Bernardino county?
Year of collection 1912?
Last name of collector - Childs?
Web search didn't locate a Devils Basin in Calif. at this elevation. Anyone know the county?
Too blurry to make out - needs to be re-photographed
Top label too faint - maybe year 97, maybe Fresno?
Need some help with this name - Vino, Vina, Vinol?
Second opinion on the year shown here - 56, 52?
Label too blurry to make out location, date
Would appreciate comfirmation on this name - Stinchfield?
Date clearly says VII-12-24, but this seems too early for J. A. Powell - any suggestions?
Westwood Jct. is in Lassen county, Wilson Lake is in Tehama county, so put unknown county
Year obscured by wing - 1984?
Could use some help with this location
Need a second opinion about the name of this location - El Fazon, El Razon, ?
Label half out of frame
could use help with date - Aug. ? 1959?
Could use help reading this date - Aug. ? 1969?
Puzzled by this label - Mono lake is entirely within Mono county, CA
bugs collected by the Michelbachers usually contain a label with a number such as 805.2 above. Is this elevation, or something else?
There is a San Felipe Creek in both Imperial and Santa Clara counties. Any way to tell which is meant here?
Is it safe to assume this is Corona in Riverside county, CA?
Appreciate a second opinion - is the year of collection 1953 or 1963?
Would appreciate a second opinion - is the year 60 or 66?
Aug. 21, 1951 ?
Date looked more like Sep 19, 1957 to me
Solano county is crossed out, but there is a Rio Vista in Solano county, so I entered it under county
I assumed this reads Niles Canyon (Alameda county). Agree?
Can't tell if this date should be 1999 or 1899. Any suggestions?
Have made several attempts to decipher date and name here - any help?
Move insect's tail off year and redo photograph
Cannot find the location of Bison, Montana
year obscured by wing - entered 1968?
year of collection obscured by abdomin
scirbbled notes are illegible
Year, plant species illegible