Moth Week…

Dear All

I recently participated in National Moth Week, which is a fantastic initiative to get people more interested in insects and the world around them.

To learn more about National Moth Week and see fabulous pictures of moths from around the world, please visit this site:

http://nationalmothweek.org

To look at moths in Turkana this involved looking at moths (and many events were held around the world). I was in northern Kenya at the Turkana Basin Institute at the time, and it had been fairly dry in the desert so there weren’t as many moths around. Here are a few photos of what we found:

The first step was setting up the light and sheet to attract the moths…

 

Within a minute, the first moth had arrived (I think that it is a member of the Tortricidae Family):

First moth that arrived at the light

 

A few minutes later and there were a lot more insects gathering at the light:

How many insects can you see? (Too many to count!)

 

Several different moths came by for the few hours that we were able to run the light, here are just a few of them:

 

 

More from the world of bugs, soon, including some amazing moths from Western Uganda!

 

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