Moth Encounters at the Light

Christine, Liz and Ellen are studying the diversity of moths in Alamos. The first night we sampled at a white light in the courtyard and this is one of the moths we saw along with 29 other different species. It was fascinating to see so much diversity in just an hour.

This is Liz on the second night waiting for our moths to come greet us. We set the lights 30 minutes prior to recording moth diversity and then sat and waited patiently.

Unfortunately, as science sometimes goes, we didn't see as many moths as we had expected at that site. We did however come across some cool little critters such as this little frog and the katydid below.