What’s up moth people! Let’s hang out & talk moths. What are your favorite types? Tips & tricks? Good resources; online or books? What moth first inspired you to look more into the moth group? Who do you follow to learn more about this species? Let’s talk moths!

I regularly LAMP (as I call it), here in Minnesota/USA, and on a whim, I created a Church of Lamp website (ala the Pastafarians, etc.): https://churchoflamp.com/ It’s all in jest, of course, but it’s a lot of fun. Brett

[image] gutenfrog: I created a Church of Lamp website (ala the Pastafarians, etc.): https://churchoflamp.com/ I didn’t make a church; but living in the US south where the first question a person asks you after your name is what church you go to, being a cave biologist, I reply “Church of Kar…

Catocala species… easily the best moths!

Swap out your porch light with a UV bulb and you can get lots more visitors to study right at home :)

Church of Karst made me cackle. That’s so great. And yes, you can absolutely join. Please celebrate by holding your own LAMP services and post the results to iNat. And you’re right about Edison. I’ll make an edit to the page on that front. (Not to mention he also electrocuted an elephant.) As for …

I LAMP on our 50 acres of land in middle of nowhere; which is where I have found Io caterpillers and tulip tree silk moth caterpillers as well. So they are here…just not seen them. I usually set up near where I have seen those too, so they should be nearby!

Huh! My advice is relatively simple: Cheat, and set up a few different lamps in different areas. I’ve started doing that to try out different areas at one time. It’s really nice if you have lots of land, so you can walk from one spot to the next, and in the time that you do so, the sheet is “new” ag…

[image] rachel_likes_nature: What moth first inspired you to look more into the moth group? I grew up around lots of books. My favorite was (still is) The Wonders of Life on Earth by the Editors of Life Magazine, published 1960 – it was my grandmother’s. Chapter 2 is called “The Stratagems of…

I am so happy today because I found my 100th species for the “Moths of New York County” project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/moths-of-new-york-county-manhattan-islands

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