Category: General
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BC checklists – discrepancies
Last week (late March 2024) Doug Macaulay published a new checklist for the lepidoptera of BC, totalling 2901 species. In contrast, our curated BC Leps checklist only contains 2841, a full 60 species fewer. So wherein lies the difference? Excitement! Drama! For people who aren’t familiar, the BC Leps site list is the result of specific, knowledgable…
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Spring(ish)!
Well, I see April’s just around the bend and my 2024 BC leps list is depressingly sparse – a mere 24 species so far. But that’ll be changing soon. It’s been an odd year. Erratic weather, crises at home and never a spare moment. All in all there’s been very little time for mothing or…
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Back in BC!
Ok fine, I actually got back home 10 days ago now, but returned during a huge snowstorm (in March!) which knocked out power to much of Howe Sound. Then right after that I came down with the flu. So a bit of a rocky return – and why I haven’t posted sooner. But it’s sure…
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Sesiidae (Clearwing moths)
Other than that awful picture above, I’m really not doing well with the clearwings. Tackling these in reverse order: #3, I could give you handful of examples of getting a glimpse of a clearwing, then having it sod off and land behind a tree somewhere to have a cigarette and laugh at me. Last year…
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Ernest H. Blackmore Award
In the BC leps meeting this week I received the Blackmore award for 2023 for my Acleris Clarkei observation in May, Fort St John. A new species for the provincial checklist and – not to be grandiose or anything – but it was possibly the greatest achievement of any BC naturalist, ever. I kid (heavily),…
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2024 mothing plan
Last year I travelled quite a bit in the province seeing a whopping 642 species of moth – year in review post here. This year I was planning on doing more of the same. I’m spending most of February in Ghana, then possibly heading back to Ecuador in Sept/Oct (the moths were incredible there, but…
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Site Design
Bear with me while I settle on a site layout, design, colour, fonts etc. etc. I think I’ve now settled on something faintly adequate, but I’ll be tweaking it for a while yet…
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Well, hello.
Ever since I got into moths, some 5 years ago now, I’ve been toying with the idea of setting up a blog – somewhere I could write the occasional piece about the extraordinary wonders of BC Lepidoptera (BC: British Columbia, Canada; Lepidoptera: moths + butterflies).
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