Category: Techniques
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Spring has sprung
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,…
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Experimenting with macro photography
This week I picked up a Tamron 90mm macro lens and flash for my Nikon D850. A diffuser from Australia is en route. After all these years I figured it’s time to take the plunge and try my hand at macro photography. Gulp. I’m not a photographer; I take a lot of a photos, but…
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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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Trip report: Prince George
Yikes, this one’s a bit belated; I just haven’t had any time to sit down and write. The last couple of weeks I’ve been hell-bent on getting our back deck into a semi-functioning state so our clumsy cat stops falling through the gaps. Anyway, I spent May 4-12th up in Prince George to visit the…
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How to find a mothing spot
Warning: don’t be misled by the title. This post is less of a how-to as a how-it’s-hard-to. It wasn’t click-bait, honest. I’ll be spending a month in Creston later this year and as with all of my mothing trips I try to do my homework beforehand. The goals are always: It’s #2 that’s the biggest…
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Coping with weight
I remember seeing my first Cyanothus silk moth (Hyalophora euryalus) on my front door a few years back. It was close enough to the ground that our idiot dog may gotten curious and accidentally done it some harm, so I moved it to a nearby tree. Once I got it onto my warm hand it…
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Techniques to attract moths
I initially got into moths courtesy of my house’s outside lights. I’d been photographing everything living thing I encountered to put on iNat, so the moths that congregated at my lights each night were a particularly tantalizing target. Before I knew it I was hooked and ordered a black light to try to attract more.…
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