Fwd: Moth night with Matthew

Venue at Litchfield Villa woods

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird



   

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From: Matthew Wills <matthewwills@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, Jul 20, 2025, 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: Moth night
To: Peter Dorosh <prosbird@gmail.com>

Peter,

 

About 25 people showed up for the BBC's National Moth Week Night Fliers event in Prospect Park on Friday, July 18th. A good time seems to have been had by all. Fireflies greeted our arrival and set up and katydids serenaded us as we left.

 

As of this writing, eleven attendees have put up a total of 105 observations on iNaturalist, representing some three dozen species.

These include moths, beetles, flies, lacewings, planthoppers, caddisflies, cricket, earwig, spider, roach, and cicada, all either drawn to our bug lights or found in the immediate area. This link lists them all: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?lat=40.66685269983176&lng=-73.97449963528965&on=2025-07-18&page=2&radius=0.0639678436419205&taxon_id=1. Many have not yet been identified identified to species level.

 

I've attached a live action picture. 

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"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill."

Harper Lee,author To Kill a Mockingbird