I ran my preliminary blacklight rig last night in the backyard, only for about an hour. Lots of neat small stuff showed up including two species of tiger beetles (
Tetracha carolina) and
Cicindela sp., (a dark-gray flying sp.), tons of earwigs, dung beetles and some other small, unidentified scarabs and two moths, one pictured below; a yellow-collared scape moth,
Cisseps fulvicollis!
Some of you may be wondering why I referred to my blacklight rig as "preliminary". After adding my brand-spanking new 2' blacklight(thanks to my lovely wife Ellen!), the final component will be my mercury vapor light, and then "Optimus Prime" will be complete!
-James
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