Audrey,
It makes more sense to me to report the actual date. That's what I've been
doing. However, I don't feel strongly on the subject and I will go along with
whatever the group agrees to on this.
Larry McDaniel
Johnson City, TN
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 11:28:50 -0700
From: ahofftn@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tn-moths] Date of Sightings
To: tn-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Most species of animals are reported on the actual date of the sighting, i.e.
birds during the morning walk or the calendar date during an organized count,
butterflies and other insects during the day, etc. But moths are different,
since they are usually documented during the night. And a night "session"
often includes two different actual "dates," since the date changes at
midnight, and many times people are still looking for them well after midnight.
So, how should the date of the moth sightings be posted? Should the actual
date of the sighting be reported? But then there would be records from two
different sessions included, such as 1am on Friday, which was actually Thursday
night's session, and 10pm on Friday, which is a different session, and may have
a very different population, due to weather or other factors.
I asked this question on Bugguide, and the responses were mixed. But, in all
cases, the advice was to be consistent, and to report the same way all the time.
So, my preference is to report a moth sighting dated with the beginning of the
session, so that all moths seen beginning on Thursday night and into Friday
morning would be posted on Thursday's calendar date. This seems more logical
to me.
What are other's thoughts on this?
Audrey Hoff
Audrey Hoff
I think that I think, therefore I am.......maybe.......
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