Category: Travelling
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Back to Cache Creek, Aug 2015
Last month’s trip to Cache Creek went so well, I decided to head back for a couple of nights. The first night I set up traps on the side of the mountain just SW of Cache Creek. This area burned down in the 2017 Elephant Hill fire, so there’s 8 years worth of growth dotted…
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Lillooet, Cache Creek – July 18-21st
Last weekend I took an extra day off to celebrate the start of National Moth Week and did a 3-day trip up to Lillooet and Cache Creek to see what I could find. The first night wasn’t terribly successful. I set up my nets at one of my usual haunts by the Lillooet airport, which…
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Golden, BC, May-June 2025 – Part 2: Micros
The first part covered the notable macros I found on the trip, now let’s turn to the little guys. These actually contained many of the more interesting finds. Lots to cover, hoo boy. Here goes. * = lifer** = new for BC on iNat Cydia fletcherana * ** Let’s start with this fella. Brilliant. I…
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Golden, BC, May-June 2025 – Part 1: Macros
Home at last! I’m back from a 5 week trip to Golden BC. En route, I stayed in Merritt and Salmon Arm setting up traps at both locations, but the bulk of my time was spent mothing around Golden. Today I got some time to crunch through my observations, so here’s a quick trip summary…
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Updates; Back to the Cape
The photo above is of a Lithophane amanda (Amanda’s pinion moth), taken this morning. These are flagged as Vulnerable in BC by NatureServe, and the first time I’ve gotten one on the west side of Bowen Island. Lots of miscellaneous moth-related news! Let’s start with… UK Trip I just got back from week in the…
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A Quiet Start
Normally I spend the winter period reviewing the observations I made that year; swotting up on species and taxons that interest or puzzle me and prepare for the upcoming mothing year. But all the activity in the last three months ruled that out. In my day job, I ended up doing overtime over the Christmas…
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Checking-in
Just a quick note. This year’s mothing ended in a bang a good month ago once the rains started and the temperature dropped. I’d hoped to get to Lillooet one more time but it didn’t work out: house maintenance took priority. Boo. This last week I’ve been spending a little time revamping the source code…
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Trip report: Princeton, Keremeos, Aug/Sept 2024
I’ve passed through Princeton dozens of times en route to the Okanagan but never spent any time there. If I could tally up all my time in the town, 95% of it would be in Thomasina’s café and the A&W drive-through. The remaining 5% would be whizzing by in the car. So I finally took…
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Trip report: Merritt, August 2024
Time from another trip report. It’s been a busy year! Up to 617 species in BC already, and there’s plenty of time left in the year. Originally I’d booked a hotel in Princeton for the Aug 17-18 weekend but canceled it when the weather reports predicted heavy rainstorms. Of course, the day before I would…
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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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