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What

Long-horned Owlet (Hypenula cacuminalis)

Observer

joemdo

Date

March 22, 2022 10:42 PM EDT

Description

Bummer I didn't get the long palps in the photo :-(

Seen at first sheet described below

Set up three sheets in different habitats at Lake Wales Ridge WEA: Royce Unit
1: Edge of the Scrub habitat, lit by bioquip blacklight from 21:03-00:40
Winds were pretty strong, maybe as high as 10 knots making for difficult photography. It eventually calmed down later in the night.
All observations from this sheet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-03-22&d2=2022-03-23&nelat=27.369384610833777&nelng=-81.34855980005382&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=27.368074521971483&swlng=-81.35366404380916&user_id=joemdo

2: Seepage Slope/Pine Flatwoods mix, lit by 1 DJ blacklight from 20:30-00:22
Much more sheltered from the wind here
All observations from this sheet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-03-22&d2=2022-03-23&nelat=27.37066314630213&nelng=-81.34384424767737&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=27.369353072573578&swlng=-81.34894849143271&user_id=joemdo

3: Pasture/Wet Flatwoods mix, lit by 2 DJ blacklights and bioquip blacklight
I set this sheet up one DJ blacklight at around 20:15 but when I came back from the other sheets the light had obviously been off for a while. I put both DJ blacklights and the bioquip light on this sheet to end the night. Thankfully the winds had calmed down by the time I set this sheet up. Lit from 01:25-03:54
All observaitons from this sheet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-03-22&d2=2022-03-23&nelat=27.372097270630036&nelng=-81.33742751683972&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=27.371442244192355&swlng=-81.3399796387174&user_id=joemdo

All blacklighting observations from this area tonight: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-03-22&d2=2022-03-23&nelat=27.517532261856243&nelng=-80.61622862586194&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=27.182092945885913&swlng=-81.92291502722912&user_id=joemdo

Here's a video showing the DJ blacklights in action at the Pinecrest campground (Big Cypress) from Summer 2019: https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk

Info about the cheapy DJ blacklights used on the second and third sheet, great for getting started with blacklighting: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/damontighe/11836-diy-moth-light

Blacklighting project for Florida on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida

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