Arizona Mothing on 26 July

[Doug Yanega]

>AND, the catch of the day, maybe the decade, Dolbogene hartwegii.
>Didnt know what the heck I had even looking at the book.  Jim Tuttle pretty
>much confirmed it until a serious study can be done.  So, all in all, the kind
>of night we live for.  To all you northeasterners,  keep on trying.

It's been recorded there before, and one of our group caught one there at
Pena Blanca on the 24th, so it may not be *the* catch of the decade after
all...at least not for that locality. I'll add that I have never witnessed
a single area so packed with groups of people running lights for bugs as
this past weekend at Pena Blanca. Those poor moths... ;-)


Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
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