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foxxdoc
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Free Lunch Aug 11, 2021 7:33:10 GMT -8

Post by foxxdoc on Aug 11, 2021 7:33:10 GMT -8

Actually free breakfast.

Collecting in Bolivia: 2 story house in woods. 2nd floor with a wrap around deck. Our moth guys set up their generators and lights. high with open woods.
Great stuff.
Next morning early with coffee on the deck: a hoard of all kinds of birds eating the left over bugs from the night before. I got great close ups of birds.
I have told this story to several birders who in fact left lights on to attract morning birds.

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TOM

cabintom Senior Member Exploring Congo's Ituri Region Posts: 449	Free Lunch Aug 11, 2021 7:59:08 GMT -8 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by cabintom on Aug 11, 2021 7:59:08 GMT -8 Have you got photos to share?

foxxdoc Full Member male------- not a female Posts: 179	Free Lunch Aug 11, 2021 8:30:55 GMT -8 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by foxxdoc on Aug 11, 2021 8:30:55 GMT -8 photos ? somewhere ? TOM

jshuey
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Collecting at Doyle's Delight - the highest ridge in Belize

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Free Lunch Aug 11, 2021 12:45:20 GMT -8

Post by jshuey on Aug 11, 2021 12:45:20 GMT -8

On a related note - I used to stay in a hotel that overlooked the Uxmal Ruins in Mexico on a regular basis. And I would run a 15 watt BL on the balcony. In the morning, I would toss the moths off the balcony (mostly so that the hotel would not kick me out) and noticed that for most moths, birds would nail them almost the instant they left my hand. They were kiskadees mostly - really big fly-catchers if you will. But for arctiids and related families, they birds never even left their perches. It made me think that there was something besides visual cues going on - and that perhaps the moths were emitting some ultrasonic screams as I grabbed them and tossed them away.

Anyway - there is something real here, and it has intrigued me for over 20 years...

john

Post by foxxdoc on Aug 11, 2021 7:33:10 GMT -8

Post by cabintom on Aug 11, 2021 7:59:08 GMT -8

Post by foxxdoc on Aug 11, 2021 8:30:55 GMT -8

Post by jshuey on Aug 11, 2021 12:45:20 GMT -8