National Moth Week recap and a new banner!

Despite not having any open/public moth nights for National Moth Week this year we did pretty well in Oklahoma. As of now there have been 1,750 observations submitted within the state from 74 different observers for a total of 482 species! For comparison, last year we had 1,534 observations from 75 observers for a total of 407 species.

Thanks to Alex Harman for submitting observations from Black Mesa State Park. Check out this first iNat record of Doll's Sphinx in the state of Oklahoma!

A few of us did a small moth night at the Forest Heritage Center at Beavers Bend State Park and recorded 129 species in one night. About 40 of these were new species for me personally. It was a lot of fun and I wish it had been safe to invite the general public to attend. Hopefully next year it will be safe to do so.

Rick Parker created an awesome new banner for our project, spelling out MOTHS OF OKLAHOMA using his own photos of moths! How cool is this?

Publicado el 31 de julio de 2020 a las 06:55 PM por zdufran