Category: Pheromone lures
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Trip Report: Lillooet, July 2024
Last weekend (July 26-28) I returned to Lillooet, BC to do a little mothing. On my last trip to the area in April I was driving off the beaten-track and stumbled across the Xaxli’p Community Forest, south-west of Fountain Valley which was home to a good patch of old growth trees, so I really wanted…
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Pheromone lures
I thought I’d make a quick post about moth pheromone lures. My experience is limited but perhaps it may be of use to some people. I’ve been setting up light traps and sheets for about 6 years, but this year I thought I’d focus on diurnal species and try lures as a complement to the…
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Clearwings!
At long last my pheromone traps paid off, yielding no less than 4 individuals this afternoon: 3 Albuna pyramidalis (fireweed clearwing moth) and a lone Synanthedon novaroensis (Douglas-fir pitch moth). Frankly I’m so relieved. I ordered the lures back in January and I’ve tried them out here and there – no luck. I even wrote…
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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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