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Started the 2022 City Nature Challenge with a lot of blacklighting. I had five sheets set up in different areas, mostly lit with cheapy DJ blacklights connected to USB powerpacks (the kind used to charge phones).

This observation is from sheet three described below.

1: Mitchell's Landing campground, first campground area. Bioquip blacklight hooked up to the campground outlet.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.755746895753024&nelng=-80.92789229991335&on=2022-04-29&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.75508256428238&swlng=-80.93072799107044&user_id=joemdo

2: Mitchell's Landing campground, second campground. DJ blacklight connected to USB powerpack.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.755755887564277&nelng=-80.92570411775625&on=2022-04-29&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.75509155614391&swlng=-80.92853980891334&user_id=joemdo

3: Tree Snail Trail (Tamarind Hammock). DJ blacklight connected to USB powerpack.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.747477184243454&nelng=-80.94486235556553&on=2022-04-29&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.746148425078704&swlng=-80.95053373787971&user_id=joemdo

4: Open area near pineland habitat down Loop Road. DJ blacklight connected to USB powerpack.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.759964683149978&nelng=-80.9992368213993&on=2022-04-29&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.759300375275487&swlng=-81.00207251255638&user_id=joemdo

5: Open area near pineland habitat down Loop Road. DJ blacklight connected to USB powerpack, sheet was on the ground with light facing up.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.760631804715654&nelng=-80.99933288273188&on=2022-04-29&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.75996750057368&swlng=-81.00216857388897&user_id=joemdo

All observations my blacklighting observations from Loop Road on this night:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.935061779589986&nelng=-80.25360325039185&on=2022-04-29&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.594952276971277&swlng=-81.70547712282098&user_id=joemdo

Here's a video showing the DJ blacklights in action at the Pinecrest campground (Big Cypress) from Summer 2019: https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk

Info about the cheapy DJ blacklights used on the second and third sheet, great for getting started with blacklighting: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/damontighe/11836-diy-moth-light

Blacklighting project for Florida on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida

Didn't see this one here a few nights ago.

Set up a single sheet at a little green patch I like to visit for birding. I tried this for the first time just four nights prior so I was curious to see if the same insects would be around. I didn't have as much time as I would've liked to photograph everything so I did miss some that I saw here before.

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 8:40PM, left and then came back to photograph everything around 10:40PM (I live nearby). Moon hadn't risen yet, rising next day around 1:40AM. Some wind made macro photography difficult although it calmed down in the hour and a half I was photographing everything.

All observations from this sheet tonight: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.787483656969112&nelng=-80.31827315697228&on=2022-06-20&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.786819503136414&swlng=-80.32110825190102&user_id=joemdo

All observations from same exact location four nights prior: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-06-16&d2=2022-06-17&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo

Here's a video showing the DJ blacklights in action at the Pinecrest campground (Big Cypress) from Summer 2019: https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk

Info about the cheapy DJ blacklights used on the second and third sheet, great for getting started with blacklighting: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/damontighe/11836-diy-moth-light

Blacklighting project for Florida on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida

With Don Fraser, Clint Gibson, and many others; a nocturnal moth survey, organized by Virginia "Ginny" Hamilton of The Nature Conservancy. There were two moth arrays about 600 feet apart. This was the second array, set up in an open flatwoods site adjacent to a marsh. I have ignored several tiny to small, generic-shaped beetles and other small insects, most of which probably could not be identified by my photographs. By my count -- and I spent some time sorting through all my photographs -- I am submitting 104 records (I combined images of the same [presumed] individuals in many cases): 62 moths, 1 ant, 1 ant lion, 10 beetles, 2 "bugs," 1 cockroach, 1 dragonfly, 4 flies, 2 frogs (audio), 2 leafhoppers, 1 mantidfly, 1 mayfly, 6 mosquitoes, 3 spiders (from the ground nearby), 1 "something," 1 treehopper, and 1 wasp.

All of these photographs were taken with my Panasonic Lumix FZ80 (with a broken exposure setting knob) and the built-in flash. The flash worked magically.

Note: Except for a few cases, I cannot identify ANY of these species with certainty. I am relying ENTIRELY on iNat's artificial intelligence/machine learning. So, no guessing, please!

Don and I left the preserve at 2250 and headed home. I arrived at 0159 Sunday morning.