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Moth Night at the NC Botanical Garden
After a late afternoon thunderstorm cleared out around 6:00 pm, we were able to hold a Moth Night down in the Piedmont Trails section of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, with 16 people in attendance. Sheets and blacklights were set up at two locations in the floodplain of Meeting-of-the-Waters Creek, with banana bait painted along the trail leading down to the sheets. Despite the preceding…
Bioblitz at Pilot Mountain State Park
Cicinnus melsheimeriA bioblitz, organized by Ed Corey, was conducted at Pilot Mountain State Park on the 17th and 18th of May, involving day-long surveys of fish, herps, odonates, butterflies, moths, and other taxonomic groups. One of the more interesting species of moths that was observed is Melsheimer's Sack-bearer (Cicinnus melsheimeri), so-named due to the cases the larvae wrap around…