Category: Travelling
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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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2023 Year in review
This year I made a real effort to travel more widely around the province to see what moths I could turn up. One of the benefits of remote work is that I can work from anywhere, so figured I’d take advantage. I ended up mothing in Fort St John, Tumbler Ridge, Prince George, Osoyoos, Oliver,…
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Decantha
One of the lovelier micromoths I get to see here on Bowen Island is Decantha stonda, image shown above. I’ve personally seen them here and the Okanagan (Osoyoos + Oliver). They’re not reported all that much, but being a micro they’re probably being overlooked. In the past I recall stumbling across them on the sheet…
BC Moths 