<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">In the 25 years we lived in ABQ,, we had more frequent invasions than 19 or 20 years apart. If you believe it depends on prime numbers, how about 5 or 7? Also the invasions were much more dense that what we’ve seen here. We’d get up in the morning and hundreds would be jammed under the front door and in the car vents.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ed<br class=""><div class="">
<div>__________<br class=""><br class="">Ed Angel<br class=""><br class="">Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)<br class="">Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico<br class=""><br class="">1017 Sierra Pinon<br class="">Santa Fe, NM 87501<br class="">505-984-0136 (home)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:edward.angel@gmail.com" class="">edward.angel@gmail.com</a><br class="">505-453-4944 (cell) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel<br class=""></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 19, 2020, at 8:05 AM, <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi, Merle,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Are you sure it’s not 19 years? The standard “take” on insect eruptions is (used to be?) that they occur on a cycle of prime numbers to make it harder for creatures with shorter cycles to “track” them. See<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-cicadas-love-affair-with-prime-numbers" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-cicadas-love-affair-with-prime-numbers</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for a pretty thin introduction to the idea.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">N<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Nicholas Thompson<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Clark University<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Merle Lefkoff<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, May 18, 2020 10:01 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">friam@redfish.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [FRIAM] Miller, miller moths everywhere...<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" class="">My son in Boulder says they get the "infestation" right on the dot every 20 years.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" class="">They are also important pollinators. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 9:57 PM Jon Zingale <<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Wow, they are everywhere! According to wikipedia:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);" class="">Army cutworms are one of the richest foods for predators, such as </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bear" target="_blank" title="Brown bear" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);" class="">brown bears</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);" class="">, in this ecosystem, where up to 72 per cent of the moth's body weight is fat, thus making it more calorie-rich than elk or deer.</span><sup id="gmail-m_-6215238948079029398gmail-cite_ref-10" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_cutworm#cite_note-10" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128);" class="">[10]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);" class=""> This is the highest known body fat percentage of any animal.</span><sup id="gmail-m_-6215238948079029398gmail-cite_ref-11" class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_cutworm#cite_note-11" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128);" class="">[11]</span></a></span></sup><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">And according to the New Mexican:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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