There Here! Moths arrive for weekend

7757 Antherea polyphemus Polyphemus

Friday nights are often a time for layed back relaxation from the week's hectic pace. I spent the beginning of the week at UMass attending the International Urban Wildlife Conference Congratulations to Stephan DeStephano and his team for a near flawless conference with great speakers, good food, and lots of old and new friends... I've been turning on my Moth attracting light for a few hours most nights to sample what is flying. Tonight after all the evenings of rain things are popping...

Polyphemus and Luna Moths were the Main event but dozens of other wonderfully patterned moths, Mayflies, beetles and Crane Flies dotted the sheet as the evening progressed.

I reflect back at the "Moth Ball" and the hard work our human visitors took to get to our 65 species for the night... I'm certain tonight we could easily eclipse that night's species count...

It will take some time for me to check out the ID of many of tonight's lepidopteran guests but a wonderful night it is and happy to be able to provide some habitat for these species and will turn my light off before dawn and chase my evening visitors away before the House Wrens, Chipping Sparrows and Blue Jays make the morning search of the "Moth Wall"

Blogging opening Day

I'm trying this after reading Eric Eaton's Blog after his visit here the other night for an evening of Mothing dubbed the "Moth Ball" by our merry group of naturalists. Eric's Blog can be found at: http://bugeric.blogspot.com/