Urban Nature Walk Special Event: Moth Night at the Zoo!

Instead of our usual type of event (go someplace, walk in one direction for a couple hours) the latest Urban Nature Walk meetup was a moth night. Instead of meeting at 10 a.m. on the last Sunday of the month we met at 10 p.m. and stayed up until 1 a.m.

We met up at Franklin Park Zoo, set up some lights to attract nocturnal insects, and went around photographing what we found. Fortunately several people had great photography set-ups (compared to my little point and shoot) so there will be lots of great photographs to look at. Meanwhile, here's my set:


This is a Macaria moth.

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More Urban Species at the porch light

The distinctive shape of this moth's wings identify it as a "plume moth," family Pterophoridae.


Also at the porch light, probably delighted by the bountiful hunting there, was a large male spider, I'm guessing a nursery web spider, family Pisauridae.