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Post by Paul K on May 21, 2020 5:26:34 GMT -8
Hello Chuck
Will you please let me know first siting of luna in your area. I really have to go out for light collecting this year to find them.What time they usually come to light traps.
Thanks Paul
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Post by Adam Cotton on May 21, 2020 6:28:38 GMT -8
I think I read in another thread that they fly after 2am.
Adam.
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Post by exoticimports on May 23, 2020 4:00:28 GMT -8
Last night was the fourth warm night after an extensive spell of cold.
Night 1 nothing at all, bit still cool
Night 2 I hurt my back, so no night lighting.
Night 3 still hurting so only put out 20w black light. Nothing, not even D inscripta. Many small moths and Pyralids though, so a good sign.
Night 4 perfect until dark, which was sadly timed with a storm front. Due to this I screwed a LED BL bulb into the protected house lamp. Small beetles, no Leps.
Weather next week predicted to be hot, so I expect some action. I’ll deploy MV.
Luna will come as early as 10pm. Most though usually come after my last sheet check at 2am.
Will keep you updated.
Chuck
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2020 8:57:39 GMT -8
Speaking of lunas, I’ve been lighting for spring lunas this spring and boy, did I catch a gem......once in a lifetime. At 2:00am on May 23, 2020! This guy came to my lights. Saw twenty and kept only seven, but this was THE guy for the night. Never seen such purple bleeding into the wings like this. The regular spring lunas are gorgeous......this guy outshines them all. www.garthesinsectgradebook.20megsfree.com/photo6.html
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Post by trehopr1 on May 23, 2020 9:29:45 GMT -8
Wow, that is indeed quite the find billg. Wish I could find those more readily here; up north of you. However, I only know of a very localized population of them and it is always hit and miss if I find any.
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Post by leptraps on May 23, 2020 13:37:20 GMT -8
I put out a single Light Trap in the Grand River WMA in Astabula County, Ohio. I found several hundred moths in my Light Trap. I returned home and promptly mounted 28 Noctuid moths. Later in the evening I mount seven Zale that I have yet to identify. I also collected a Metaxaglaea viatica. It is awful late for this species. But it is a beauty.
I will set out two Light Traps Saturday/Sunday in the Grand River WMA. The weather is looking good and the new Moon has just begun. Actually began yesterday.
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Post by leptraps on May 23, 2020 13:44:44 GMT -8
I did not see this post until I returned home. I had a Light Trap with the new 40Watt368QBL 18"T12 bulb. On several of the trees around the Light Trap were Luna Moths. All were fresh and were males.
I also collected a number of Celastrina argiolus lucia and several Celastrina (argiolus) neglectamajor. All males and all on spreading boards.
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Post by Paul K on May 23, 2020 15:49:59 GMT -8
Thanks Leroy
That means I will be put out the trap Friday or Saturday this coming week. I’m on the others said of the lake so those few more days hopefully should do. Would Carolinian forest be good for luna ?
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Post by leptraps on May 23, 2020 15:54:46 GMT -8
I set out two Light Traps in the Grand River WMA last night. I collected them this AM. Hanging on the trunk of a Butternut tree was an Actias luna. I found several more around the other Light Trap.
I also collected three Hyles gallii in the second Light Trap.
I collected 80+ moths that I will mount this AM and more than likely, all day long.
Something is managing to consume all the bait in one of my Bait Traps. I purchased an old fashion rat trap. I attached it to the Bait Trap. Odds are on a Opossum or a Raccoon. I will know in the morning.
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Post by exoticimports on May 23, 2020 16:50:11 GMT -8
Paul, you I and Leroy are in the same post glaciated Carolinian forest. He is more southern in both flora and temperature. There will be local variation as well; I’ve captured but one H gallii in my life. Your area runs significantly cooler, I’d expect it to run about a week behind mine, and up to two weeks behind Leroy.
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Post by Paul K on May 23, 2020 18:35:09 GMT -8
Paul, you I and Leroy are in the same post glaciated Carolinian forest. He is more southern in both flora and temperature. There will be local variation as well; I’ve captured but one H gallii in my life. Your area runs significantly cooler, I’d expect it to run about a week behind mine, and up to two weeks behind Leroy. Sounds good Chuck I’ll wait couple of weeks and hopeful you will have some luna at your lights so you would alert me. I also found only one H.gallii here just 10km north of Toronto. Paul
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Post by exoticimports on May 24, 2020 3:47:35 GMT -8
No Luna last night. Overall pretty quiet last night.
175w MV. Low 65F.
10:11pm: S abotti. First in a decade.
1:50am. Large dytiscidae beetle.
4:50am. D inscriptum
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2020 5:51:18 GMT -8
Last night at same place, got two nice lunas and saw abt eight. Left at 2:15 w temp at 63. Again took a couple of Sphingicampa bicolor spring forms as well along w a few sphinx moths.....a juglanda, myops, and Abbotti. Gonna rest that spot for a few nights now that we’re finally getting warmth.
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Post by mothman27 on May 24, 2020 8:57:27 GMT -8
I had some good bugs last night. A nice female S. bicolor, 3 S. abbottii, Nichrophorus orbicollis, and the first A. luna of the year, crippled from eclosion but apparently able to fly. I also kept several other moths like Acronicta fallax, Furcula borealis, some Prominents and a female Pseudothyatira cymatophoroides, a Drepanid.
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Post by exoticimports on May 25, 2020 4:37:17 GMT -8
Last night was a horrible disappointment. It was 79F/26C at dusk; low was 65F/18C. Mostly overcast, no moon. A textbook perfect night, and I got nothing.
I started before dusk with a 70W UV incandescent trap.
About 90 minutes later I accidentally turned on the porch light (65W standard LED) and a swarm of small fliers immediately came to it. An inspection of the trap showed not much there.
So I put up the 175W MV.
At 1:30am there was nothing but little junk at the sheet- and not even like the previous night. So I shut down the MV, hoping anything would then migrate to the trap.
At 5:30am I checked the trap- tiny carabidae, june bugs. That's it.
I cannot figure this out. A possible explanation- we went on a 3mi/ 5.8k hike yesterday, starting through mature forest along a gorge, then return (1 mi) along farm fields. The only butterflies I saw were pieris rapae and a single Vanessa atlanta.
Chuck
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