chris_rorabaugh's Identifications

With Don Fraser, Clint Gibson, and many others; a nocturnal moth survey, organized by Virginia "Ginny" Hamilton of The Nature Conservancy. There were two moth arrays about 600 feet apart. This was the second array, set up in an open flatwoods site adjacent to a marsh. I have ignored several tiny to small, generic-shaped beetles and other small insects, most of which probably could not be identified by my photographs. By my count -- and I spent some time sorting through all my photographs -- I am submitting 104 records (I combined images of the same [presumed] individuals in many cases): 62 moths, 1 ant, 1 ant lion, 10 beetles, 2 "bugs," 1 cockroach, 1 dragonfly, 4 flies, 2 frogs (audio), 2 leafhoppers, 1 mantidfly, 1 mayfly, 6 mosquitoes, 3 spiders (from the ground nearby), 1 "something," 1 treehopper, and 1 wasp.

All of these photographs were taken with my Panasonic Lumix FZ80 (with a broken exposure setting knob) and the built-in flash. The flash worked magically.

Note: Except for a few cases, I cannot identify ANY of these species with certainty. I am relying ENTIRELY on iNat's artificial intelligence/machine learning. So, no guessing, please!

Don and I left the preserve at 2250 and headed home. I arrived at 0159 Sunday morning.