Last night I took part in a 5 man survery of insect sp. in Fischer Old Growth Forest for Cornell University. Luckily I got to keep some doubles for myself. Here are some highlight pics, minus leps, I don't have time to spread them for a few days.....
We had three traps, two blacklights:
And a 175 W Mercury Vapor Lamp:
A fairly good number of individuals and sp. visited the traps:
This yellow geometrid was a cool find, this was his true color:
Here is my non-lep collection for the night:
Belostomatidae, this guy hit the sheet HARD!
Some of the beetles I nabbed, the one to the left of the elaterid is a really cool genus in a fairly common family. Trivia! Anyone know what family it is?
I'm not usually into carabids......but orange and black is cool:
Nice megalopteran, decent wingspan.
This is the coolest Tricopteran I've found in NY: many at the lights!
We had three traps, two blacklights:
And a 175 W Mercury Vapor Lamp:
A fairly good number of individuals and sp. visited the traps:
This yellow geometrid was a cool find, this was his true color:
Here is my non-lep collection for the night:
Belostomatidae, this guy hit the sheet HARD!
Some of the beetles I nabbed, the one to the left of the elaterid is a really cool genus in a fairly common family. Trivia! Anyone know what family it is?
I'm not usually into carabids......but orange and black is cool:
Nice megalopteran, decent wingspan.
This is the coolest Tricopteran I've found in NY: many at the lights!
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