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I have run one of my blacklights now for about 18 years - every night at 
interesting times of the year.  It was smashed by a dust devil a few weeks 
ago, but was attracting as effectively as it ever did right up to its last 
night.  

I also ran MV lights in England for many years - virtually every night, and 
they only packed up once they were physically broken.  No evidence ever of 
them losing effectiveness either.  Not used US MV lights enough to pass 
comment.

Suspect like others that it is just that lull time of the year.  In the 
desert, our numbers go up very high in the early summer, but diversity drops 
to the lowest level for the whole year then.  Mostly pest species like beet 
armyworm, tobacco budworm, corn earworm and cabbage looper feeding on the 
crops nearby.

Ian Watkinson, Yuma, Arizona.

 
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