Winter moths

It got cold, then it got warm again. That seemed to be the recipe for the winter moths to emerge and cluster around every porch light and drift across every street like dirty little fall leaves. At the time that I took this picture I counted 85-90 males. The females are essentially wingless--Alexis found one or two of them but I wasn't looking as closely. A friend who worked for the state in invasive species research/education/control went out to her porch light and deliberately killed all the females and mating pairs she could find. She said by her estimation there were fewer this year than last year.

3:00 snapshot #1139 plus bonus Pdogs

What's the title of the horror movie we're going to make with my at work snapshots?




"Horror? No it should be something about colonial ground squirrels!"

3:00 snapshot #1140

I should have come up with a tag for this view, since I've posted slightly different views of it a dozen or more times now. This is the best one yet. If I was 10 feet tall I'd take much better pictures. Speaking of which, you guys wanna see pictures of the new baby giraffe?