Category: Travelling
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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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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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