Sounds awesome, second week of Sept I head to Ecuador for seven weeks, and will spend about a week each in seven places. A lot of my planning/selection is based around being places I can set up my sheet, and uv light, and then spend a couple hours looking for night critters. Your set up looks a bit more power intensive than mine, which likely means you can run it longer than mine limited by the flashlight batteries. But on my Peru trip last year it was good enough. So looking forward to what Ecuadorian species I get this year.
Coolest caterpillar Ive seen, Pipevine Swallowtail.
Do you have any outdoor place where the lights are on at the night? I’m inside the Western Ghats (just), so I get at least 1 moth every 2-3 days, on some days there are suddenly lots of them.
I live smack dab in the middle of Bangalore ;-;
Beautiful! thank you for sharing.
Welcome to the forum!
The second is probably this one:
Rothschildia erycina from the Ecuadorian Amazon*.* Big and beautiful.
Thanks!
It might be Olethreutes griseoalbana. At least it is the same species as some of the individuals included under this name on iNaturalist.
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/416984-Olethreutes-griseoalbana
Thanks, I see that!
I thought this Parathyris cedonulli from near La Guanta, Ecuador was fascinating. It looks almost like it is made from bronze and stained glass.
Just this one a few days back…
If anyone can identify it, please do, its at “Owlet Moths and Allies” :) Here’s the observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/303966776.
That is one of the wildest ones I’ve seen.
I am making (mainly for myself) a photo-book about moths I have found in my hometown Antequera (Málaga). I found the list was getting rather confusing, I didn’t remember what was what etc. So I decided to make a book, even though it doesn’t really make sense for just 242 species. Now that I am researching habitat preferences and foodplants etc. it’s getting really interesting because there are some quite rare (or better: not often recorded) semi-desert species.
Just saw a few moths in the last few days…
These two are the best, both lifers:
Really loved the colours, observation at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305461965.
Goes to show that even a moth that is only black in colour is beautiful. Observation at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305461984.
I get this one in southern Costa Rica, too! It has been the most common species here over the last week
One of my favourite hawkmoths of all time:
Plain Grey Hawkmoth, (seriously? It looks plain?), at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258653848.