Category: Travelling
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Creston highlights
The last post was about the four superstars I saw on my recent month-long trip to Creston, but the following were my real highlights. Lasionycta When I fed my first observation of this genus into iNat I was shocked to see there were 16 – sixteen!? – of these species already spotted in BC. I’d…
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New potential additions to the BC Checklist
As per my last post, I spent June in Creston BC looking for new leps. During that time I saw four new potential candidates for the BC Checklist. Some were far, far out of range, but were pretty distinctive and I’m cautiously optimistic they can be ID’d by photo alone. We’ll see! I’ll include the…
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Creston, June 2024, trip report
Quick summary report of a month-long trip to Creston. I just got back last night. For this post I thought I’d just do a high-level overview, then drill down into some more specific topics in separate posts because there’s a lot to say! I chose Creston for two simple reasons: Final tally Total species: 317New…
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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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Trip report: Lillooet
I popped up to Lillooet last weekend to set up some traps. Not a bad trip – I saw 46 species of leps compared to 28 in the Okanagan, just 2 weeks ago. Things are heatin’ up out there! Day #1 The first night was a bit of a scramble – doing the the 3.5…
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Trip report: Osoyoos, Oliver
Last weekend (Apr 6-7th) I headed over to the southern Okanagan to see what early Spring leps I could find. I figured I could always fall back on birds and plants if the weather was bad. Day #1 The first night was a bit of a bust, moth-wise. When I arrived in Osoyoos it was…
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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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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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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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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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