"Surprise bonus" takes unexpected swerve

Fungus update: dead, rotting, starting to turn into mush. I saw a few wing-wiggling flies but not much else





Unexpected swerve: fortunately I got a surprisingly good pink moth photo (ID: Pyrausta inornatalis). I used just a phone and a flashlight; minor color correction was needed but nothing else.

Edit: here it is!

It will certainly make an excellent Domino Project post















Edit 2: Here’s a somewhat amusing thing I produced (click to zoom)


Make your own at createyourcover.nationalgeographic.com! I am slightly distrustful of NatGeo; one time, a biodiversity photographer they promoted made the terrible error of saying that the non-feeding adult of Hyalophora was a pollinator. Their web toy is still fun to play with though.

Fun misadventures in bugworld, Domino edition

trap

The orange-juice trap mentioned earlier failed to catch a fly, let alone Cotinis mutabilis. In desperate need of footage for my sci-outreach campaign, I decided to try fiddling with the summer nocturnal insects instead.

Results of night garden walks a few days ago and today:

• Many small (less than a cm) and medium (roughly a cm) click beetles on ground
• Not a single carabid in sight, oddly.
• Many moths on oregano inflorescences, including a pink sp (Pyrausta inornatalis). My camera is lousy at night flashlight pics though
• No living Coniontis, despite many corpses