Moths of Calgary

It's been a while since I've posted but I intend to do more this year! This morning there were two moths in the light trap, Egira Ru...

After an empty moth trap the previous night, there were 4 moths of 3 species in my backyard light trap this morning.  As far as I am aware, ...

My backyard moth numbers had, for the most part, been somewhat low compared to previous years but began to pick up towards the end of July a...

Due to overnight weather and early morning birding, last night was the first time I've had the light trap out for a while.  There were a...

With the dramatic and worrying drop in flying insect numbers throughout the world my first moth sightings of 2019 seem to have added poignan...

While the winter freeze persists in Alberta, I thought it might be nice to see a few moths from last year. Nearly all the photos are stack...

11 moths of 4 species in the light trap this morning.  6 of these were Dot-and-Dash Swordgrass (Xylena curvimacula).  The most I’ve had of t...