[ncsc-moths] Re: Location
- From: Harry Wilson <harrywilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:39:26 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
I am in eastern Wake County in a transition area from Piedmont to Coastal Plain, elevation about 350 feet. My area is rural, though an adjoining farm will soon be divided into tracts for homes, I fear. Our home is on five+ acres that has a couple of patches of woods and a 1.3-acre pond behind our house. Each evening I turn on outside lights around the house and I set up a sheet at the edge of a wooded area near the pond, where I have two UV lights. Sometimes I paint sugar bait on a few trees at the edge of the wooded areas. We have several beds of flowering plants, mostly native species, that attract butterflies and moths. I usually check these areas hourly up to the time I turn in. I have left the UV lights on all night but I can't bring myself to do that just yet, because there are at least 12 Wood Ducks that come to the pond each morning (and to nesting boxes) and I would scare them away by walking to the sheet.
I'll have to try the ropes dipped in wine -- if I can bring myself to share the wine with the moths!
Harry
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul
Sent: Feb 19, 2011 1:39 PM
To: ncsc-moths
Subject: [ncsc-moths] Location
I live in Warren County, North Carolina in the
Piedmont on Lake Gaston . The Lake is huge and half of it is in Virginia. I'm
probabably no more than 2-300 feet above Sea Level. As you can see from the
photos I hang my sheet off the lower deck and check it about every 20
minutes between 1800 and 2000 Hrs. I leave the light on overnight and
usually find some good stuff in the morning if I can beat the Wrens and the
Bald-faced Wasps to the sheet. On a good summer night I'll have hundreds of
moths on the sheet. Photo # 4 shows the basic bait traps I use . I dip them in
fermented wine with sugar and on a good night there'll be 20-40 moths hanging on
the ropes.I find the fermented wine makes the moths a lot more docile and few
fly away while I'm photographing them . In fact a lot fall off the traps and
just lay on the ground in a stupor. Paul
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