Had a spectacular time with a group of around 75 folks at John Bunker Sands celebrating moth week! LOADS of bugs at the sheets -- and a few moths too!
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
specimen for Peter Messer
Distance between threads = 0.6 mm
Ecotone, deciduous bottomland hardwood forest & lawn. Hand collected. 27°C, 67%RH, 11km/h
Length 3.6 mm.
Found while digging weeds in the garden.