Hi all! :) I’m considering getting some lights at some point in the near future to attract more moths this summer. I was going to follow this guide but the lights they recommend are sold out currently. Does anyone here who’s more knowledgeable have an opinion on these ? Are they close enough? Does an…

I think those would be fine. Don’t think there’s much of a difference among the LED blacklights like these.

Are you looking for a highly portable system or one you will mostly use at home? I tried using several different varieties of LED UV A lights from Amazon and found they weren’t very effective. I found replacement bug zapper bulbs and herp bulbs much more effective. They aren’t as portable and requir…

I recommend entoquip uv for home use

They’re a bit outside of my budget at the moment unfortunately.

Do different moths come to black lights from the ones that come to ordinary porch lights?

Yes. Some moth species will ignore regular incandescent bulbs.

Certainly. I had a full year of porch lights only before I got a special lamp. More and larger moths generally came to the UV (sometimes there were a dozen Sphinx moths resting on the sheet together) and different types of other moths in general. There are other biases between the 2 data sets, but t…

[image] egordon88: sometimes there were a dozen Sphinx moths resting on the sheet together Were large moths like this a common sight at your light then?

For plug-in use, I was doing ok with a CF black light bulb and a trouble-light holder. Note that the fluorescent tube bulbs do wear out; if I’m leaving them on half the night regularly, they lose a lot of power within a few months. Those do look like they’d be convenient for use with a power bank o…

Yes. Specifically, Hyles lineata was common all summer. They are amazing pollinators and clearly attracted to the lamp when they were “tired” of flowers. I uploaded very few observations of sphinx moths, because it’s such an obvious and common species, and I was focusing on the smaller/rarer insects …

Light setups for mothing

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