What a miserably wet year! But all it takes is 24 hours with moderately warm weather and hardly any rain, and hey presto: the moths come back. I had a good dozen Feralia deceptiva, three Orthosia hibisci, a Costaconvexa centrostrigaria, and a bunch of FOYs (First Of the Year): Egira crucialis, Orthosia transparens, Ectropis crepuscularia, and Cerastis enigmatica. The year has finally begun.

The macro lens is working out wonderfully, by the way. I’d gotten in the habit of ignoring a good portion of the natural world – from tiny arthropods to mosses and fungi. Now I’m finding all sorts of wonders. Even with my feeble skills, the photographs are vastly higher quality than using my phone. I can’t wait to photograph many of the moths I’ve seen over the years that are so small I haven’t been able to give them justice. The only problem is time. Trimming and uploading images from my phone is time-consuming; trimming and uploading images from my camera is incredibly slow and time-consuming: I spend as much time at my computer as I do outside. That just ain’t gonna scale. So like I said in a previous post, I still think the bulk of my pictures are going to have to be with my phone.

The image is a Litholomia napaea I saw the night before last. Not the worst photo, but not the best.