.... and maybe I can figure out "what you did wrong." Sometimes a comment gets truncated at the beginning of an HTML link. Perhaps I can submit the full comment for you. In any event, it is possible that both you and I are considered to be bad moth persons by the moth fairy and this is but part of our penance.

Thanks very much for your response, Bob, but first things first. Before I wonder about what if anything I might have done wrong in my posting (this is the first time there ever has been a problem), I need an answer from someone in administrative power at BugGuide, to the question, "How do I delete this whole mess and start over?"

..... the system permits you to edit them. Then you can erase a comment and just leave a period behind or a note "incomplete comment deleted." Sometimes I can edit my comments and sometimes I can't. Fickle system.

What you can do is send the page link to John VanDyk and request that he delete the comment(s). As system administrator I think he is able to do that. jvandyk@iastate.edu

Other than that, the person who originated the page could delete the page and start over again.

I'm off for 3 weeks to Lep. Soc. and Canada. Ta, ta!

P.S.: I just checked. Right now I can still edit this comment but not the earlier one. In the past I have sometimes been able to edit a comment months after it was posted. But this feature appears not to be consistent.

As far as I know, you can always edit a comment if no one else has replied to it, and you can never edit a comment once someone has replied (unless you started editing it before they clicked "post comment"). Note that people who are subscribed to a post will not receive an update when you edit a comment to include new information.