24 Apr 2024.
Buckingham Springs, Bucks Co, PA.
Attracted to a porch light.
24 Apr 2024.
Buckingham Springs, Bucks Co, PA.
Attracted to a porch light.
Attracted using a $15 DJ blacklight connected by USB to a phone charging battery (available on amazon)...read more here: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/damontighe/11836-diy-moth-light
Not sure about this one
Attracted using a DJ Blacklight available cheap on amazon...read more here: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/damontighe/11836-diy-moth-light
Attracted using a DJ Blacklight available cheap on amazon...read more here: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/damontighe/11836-diy-moth-light
Set up a single sheet at a little green patch I like to visit for birding. I have looked for bugs here before too but this was the first time I set up a sheet. I used several blacklights: one bioquip powered by a battery with 12v outlet made for jumping car/inflating tires, three DJ blacklights connected to USB powerpacks. Most of the sheet visitors were small but there was a good amount of diversity. Without my macro lens it wouldn't have felt as fruitful.
I set the sheet up around 11:20PM, left and then came back to photograph everything around 2AM (I live nearby). Moon rose around 11PM and was around 95% illuminated, so I had a lot of light competition. Wind was weak when I set the sheet up but was non-existent by the time I came back.
All observations from this sheet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-06-16&d2=2022-06-17&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo
Blacklighting at AD Barnes Park. I had permission to spend the night here to keep an eye on tents set up for Native Plant Day. This is an annual event organized by the Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society. You can read more about it here: https://dade.fnpschapters.org/data/uploads/documents/npd2024program.pdf
& here is the Dade Chapter's website:
https://dade.fnpschapters.org/
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I was a bit unprepared for blacklighting as I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to. I only had 3 UV blacklights powered by USB battery packs and moved them around between midnight and around 5:30AM when I left. At first I had two lights up on the side of the portable building and one down a trail in the hardwood hammock area. Later I took down one of the lights from the building and moved it to the hardwood hammock sheet. Finally, I moved all the lights to a more open area with more pines and pine rockland species. This observation is from the last spot.
You can learn more about the lights I used and my typical, simple & affordable setups here: https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk
Conditions: Negligible wind, moon illumination 37%, set around 1:30AM, temp around 70
Video showing all of the areas I set up lights throughout the night: https://youtu.be/Pp0-zd3oTjg
All of my blacklighting observations from Barnes:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.741335270684708&nelng=-80.30756776028727&on=2024-03-16&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.7360198701269&swlng=-80.31159107380961&user_id=joemdo
Non-blacklighting observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.741335270684708&nelng=-80.30756776028727&on=2024-03-16&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&swlat=25.7360198701269&swlng=-80.31159107380961&user_id=joemdo¬_in_project=blacklighting-florida
Blacklighting project for Florida on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida
Tiny fly attracted to a blacklight, a little over 1 mm in length
Tropical Park playground critters
Size of a gnat.
Attracted using a DJ Blacklight available cheap on amazon...read more here: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/damontighe/11836-diy-moth-light
On trunk of beech tree near stream. Body length 6mm. Air temperature about 50 degrees Fahrenheit
I don’t know if this suggested ID is accurate. Please confirm or correct.