Lep traps starting to fill in Louisiana...

[James K Adams]

Folks,

           Here in north Georgia, had an exceedingly warm night last night ahead of a cold front, and moths were on my back porch in droves (okay, probably a couple hundred).  Already have had ridiculously early emergences of a few moths, including the really neat geometrid Ceratonyx satanaria . . . got my second female ever last night.  I had never taken the species earlier than early March before this year, when I saw the first individuals on Feb. 3, and by last night I've seen 20 - 25 already this spring.  Zebra Swallowtails and Falcate Orange Tips already.  Amazing what a winter without much winter will do.

james
James K. Adams
Professor of Biology, Dalton State College
706-272-4427; 678-767-5938
visit the Georgia Lepidoptera website at
       http://www.daltonstate.edu/galeps

 
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