Blacklighting at Dagny Johnson for a bioblitz organized by Dr. Fletcher and park biologist Trudy Ferraro. Thanks for granting me access to blacklight and snap some photos of insects!
These were taken at setup #3 described in the journal post below (second link)
All of my blacklighting observations from this visit:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-04-06&order=asc&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo
Video showing the lights I use during a typical setup:
https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk
Journal post with notes about my observations for the bioblitz: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/joemdo/91924-dagny-johnson-bioblitz-april-6th-2024
Blacklighting project for Florida: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida
Blacklighting at Dagny Johnson for a bioblitz organized by Dr. Fletcher and park biologist Trudy Ferraro. Thanks for granting me access to blacklight and snap some photos of insects!
These were taken at setup #2 described in the journal post below (second link)
All of my blacklighting observations from this visit:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-04-06&order=asc&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo
Video showing the lights I use during a typical setup:
https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk
Journal post with notes about my observations for the bioblitz: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/joemdo/91924-dagny-johnson-bioblitz-april-6th-2024
Blacklighting project for Florida: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida
Blacklighting at Dagny Johnson for a bioblitz organized by Dr. Fletcher and park biologist Trudy Ferraro. Thanks for granting me access to blacklight and snap some photos of insects!
These were taken at setup #3 described in the journal post below (second link)
All of my blacklighting observations from this visit:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-04-06&order=asc&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo
Video showing the lights I use during a typical setup:
https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk
Journal post with notes about my observations for the bioblitz: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/joemdo/91924-dagny-johnson-bioblitz-april-6th-2024
Blacklighting project for Florida: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida
Blacklighting at Dagny Johnson for a bioblitz organized by Dr. Fletcher and park biologist Trudy Ferraro. Thanks for granting me access to blacklight and snap some photos of insects!
These were taken at setup #2 described in the journal post below (second link)
All of my blacklighting observations from this visit:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-04-06&order=asc&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo
Video showing the lights I use during a typical setup:
https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk
Journal post with notes about my observations for the bioblitz: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/joemdo/91924-dagny-johnson-bioblitz-april-6th-2024
Blacklighting project for Florida: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida
These things are all over the front yard at night but this one came out to the back porch tonight. Hard to get a good picture. Every night, no matter when we go to bed it's "F*** you! F*** you!"
Pretty sure Legoland is crawling with these.
Super neat moth
With Don Fraser; an unsuccessful search for Dusky Roadside Skippers -- but we saw lots of other taxa. My camera, my sixth Panasonic Lumix FZ80, died within 2 hours of arriving here, so I was depressed and frustrated for the final 90 or so, having to take photographs with my Galaxy A52 cell phone. We stayed north of Forest Road 22 always and were mostly west of the Purple Trail that runs northwest-to-southeast through the sandhills. The weather at the end was partly sunny, 86 degrees ("feels like" 92), and breezy (from the south at 12 MPH, gusting to 18). The mostly overcast conditions and the winds depressed butterfly activity. We left here at 1334 and headed to Tillis Hill campground.
With Don Fraser; an unsuccessful search for Dusky Roadside Skippers -- but we saw lots of other taxa. My camera, my sixth Panasonic Lumix FZ80, died within 2 hours of arriving here, so I was depressed and frustrated for the final 90 or so, having to take photographs with my Galaxy A52 cell phone. We stayed north of Forest Road 22 always and were mostly west of the Purple Trail that runs northwest-to-southeast through the sandhills. The weather at the end was partly sunny, 86 degrees ("feels like" 92), and breezy (from the south at 12 MPH, gusting to 18). The mostly overcast conditions and the winds depressed butterfly activity. We left here at 1334 and headed to Tillis Hill campground.
There were tons floating around over all the scrub
Female; making frequent hiccing calls. A second scrub-jay was nearby. Foraging on the ground and calling from a perch in a tree.
Eastern Meadowlark - Sturnella magna