Last Updated: 19-AUG-2018
Weather Condition
Camera used: Nikon Coolpix S8000 14.2 MP Digital
Sunset was at 20:33 Very Slight Wind, no dew and the sky was clear.
TIME WIND SPEED HUMIDITY TEMP20:20 0 58 79.3 20:40 0 60 78.1 21:00 0 62 77.4 21:20 0 66 76.8 21:40 0 69 76.1 22:00 0 71 75.2 22:20 0 74 74.7 22:40 0 75 74.5 23:00 2 76 74.3 23:20 2 76 74.5 23:40 0 75 74.8 00:00 3 72 75.0 00:20 3 69 75.2
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Using the same 400w mercury vapor light as other times we have done this.
Set up around 20:20... and ended at 12:20
Fish Fly - Neuroptera, similar to a dobsonfly - just with less bite.
Dog Day Cicada - Tibicen canicularis
Huckleberry Sphinx - Paonias astylus
Silver-Spotted Longhorn Beetle with Tomato Hornworm and Cicada
Banded Tussock Moth
Saddleback Moth - Acharia [Sibine] stimulea
Its now 23:45 and the big ones show up. Imperial Moth, Eacles imperialis (We had FIVE of these at once. The most ever)
Imperial Moth with 5-spotted Hawkmoth (Tomato Hornworm)
Rosy Maple Moth - Dryocampa rubicunda
Mayfly - Ephemeroptera
Leopard Moth (not the "Great Leopard Moth"..)
The Woolly Bear or Isabella Tiger Moth - Pyrrharctia isabella (This is what the Woolly Bear caterpillar becomes)
Green Stink Bug
Type of Noctuide moth and a Assassin bug
Red Ichneumon Wasp
5-spotted Hawkmoth (Tomato Hornworm)
Hemlock Looper - Lambdina fiscellaria with a Noctuide moth
Pearly Wood-Nymph - Eudryas unio
Grape leaf Folder Moth - Desmia funeralis
Ichneumon wasp (females have long oviposter's; parasitic on wood boring larvae and/or cocoons)
Mantis Fly's and a Green Lacewing with various other insects
Marathyssa inficita (Dark Marathyssa). They and other Euteliinae noctuids have a resting pose that is quite unique.
Ctenucha Moth ssp
milkweed tussock moth -Euchaetes egle (Comes from the Milkweed Tussock Caterpillars) Upper right is a male Gypsy Moth
Ilia Underwing - Catocala ilia
