[tn-moths] Re: Watauga County moths--27 April 2011--Now in the 700 Club!!!
- From: Larry McDaniel <larrycmcd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-moths <tn-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ncsc-moths <ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:04:30 -0400
Congratulations! That's awsome.
I'm not dedicating quite as much time to it this year as I did last year.
We plan on moving to a new place in Johnson City and I want to go for a big
yard year after that.
For now, I'm focusing on improving my photos and learning other porch light
insects.
Leafhoppers are particularly interesting. Kyle has been working on them also.
Did you see that I had a Silvery Blue (butterfly) at Steele Creek Park on 4/25.
Larry McDaniel
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:50:22 -0400
> Subject: [tn-moths] Watauga County moths--27 April 2011--Now in the 700
> Club!!!
> From: jmerrilllynch@xxxxxxxxx
> To: ncsc-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; tn-moths@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Moth'ers,
>
> Another excellent moth night in the High Country. Added another 10
> species for the year, bringing my yearly total to 158 spp. I also
> identified 3 lifers which pushed my total Echo Valley Farm cumulative
> list over the 700 threshold and my yard list now stands at 702. This
> is my third season of intensive mothing at this location and I'm still
> averaging about 20% lifers (1 in every five new moths for the season
> are lifers). A great hobby--every night is full of surprises. lad to
> see everyone really getting into it.
>
> My lifer moths:
>
> 0003 Dyseriocrania griseocapitella (Chinquapin Leaf-miner Moth)
> 2143 Filatima epulatrix
> 2413 Swammerdamia caesiella
>
> plus an unidentified Caloptilia that I haven't seen before; it looks
> most like 0633 C. sassafrasella and could be that species but doesn't
> have the scattered large spots depicted on MPG; my moth actually is a
> dead ringer for the image taken by Karl Hillig on MPG under 0645.97,
> unidentified Caloptilia moths.
>
>
> J. Merrill Lynch
> Echo Valley Farm
> Watauga County, NC
> Elevation: 3,400 feet
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