Chironomidae, unidentified. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA. 31 May 2014.
Abdominal tergite 2 to 4 of male blackish brown with the apical 0.15 above and at least the apical 0.3 laterally conspicuously whitish and translucent. Townes, 1945
It was waving its front legs around
A midge on a window screen in Muhlenberg County, KY.
Agradecimentos ao Walther Ishikawa ( @waltherishikawa ) e Cesar Crash do Insetologia.
First sheet on large open path to the beach
I came to do some blacklighting after visiting this area a couple weeks ago and thinking it looked good. I had one sheet set up in the woods near the large pond and another on the other side of the runway along the large open path to the beach. Very light winds, warm temps (80's) and cloudy to clear conditions with around half moon. While walking between my sheets I met three locals that were nice to stop and chat with for a while.
All of my observations including from walking around & bat recordings: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2023-07-27&d2=2023-07-28&nelat=39.400426651484466&nelng=-76.39958341047999&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&swlat=39.199768055660726&swlng=-76.6002927693784&user_id=joemdo
More info about my lights/set up and video showing them in action in Big Cypress National Preserve (west of Miami, Florida) in Summer 2019:
https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk
Dexter Park
Sandbag squares measure about 2.5mm
~1-2mm head to wingtips. On sunlit side of rotting log. Air temperature about 54°F
Blacklighting at AD Barnes Park. I had permission to spend the night here to keep an eye on tents set up for Native Plant Day. This is an annual event organized by the Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society. You can read more about it here: https://dade.fnpschapters.org/data/uploads/documents/npd2024program.pdf
& here is the Dade Chapter's website:
https://dade.fnpschapters.org/
Please consider becoming a member!
I was a bit unprepared for blacklighting as I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to. I only had 3 UV blacklights powered by USB battery packs and moved them around between midnight and around 5:30AM when I left. At first I had two lights up on the side of the portable building and one down a trail in the hardwood hammock area. Later I took down one of the lights from the building and moved it to the hardwood hammock sheet. Finally, I moved all the lights to a more open area with more pines and pine rockland species. This observation is from the last spot.
You can learn more about the lights I used and my typical, simple & affordable setups here: https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk
Conditions: Negligible wind, moon illumination 37%, set around 1:30AM, temp around 70
Video showing all of the areas I set up lights throughout the night: https://youtu.be/Pp0-zd3oTjg
All of my blacklighting observations from Barnes:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.741335270684708&nelng=-80.30756776028727&on=2024-03-16&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.7360198701269&swlng=-80.31159107380961&user_id=joemdo
Non-blacklighting observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.741335270684708&nelng=-80.30756776028727&on=2024-03-16&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&swlat=25.7360198701269&swlng=-80.31159107380961&user_id=joemdo¬_in_project=blacklighting-florida
Blacklighting project for Florida on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida