BL in BR - May 10

Last night we did a little blacklighting at the Aquaculture Research Station in Baton Rouge, after having a nice dinner at Casa Maria. It was a nice night with very little wind, unlike the last time I was there in 2004 when the wind brought down my light rig.

Emma had a great time with the whole night and I enjoyed finding some juvenile lubbers in the weeds. We had two lights going at two different spots. Here are some pics:







- Steven
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Given the number of people, the varied collecting techniques, the perfect weather conditions, and the diurnal/nocturnal combination of collecting time, I am surprised at how little we got volume-wise. Variety was good, though, and included:

wolf spider
long-jawed orb weavers
orb weavers
jumping spiders of at least 3 species
leaf beetles
scarab beetles
hydrophilids of at least 2 species
dytiscids of at least 3 species
backswimmers
water boatmen
whirligig beetles
dragonflies and damselflies of at least 9 species
giant water bugs
water scorpions
leaf-footed bugs
lubber grasshoppers
mud daubers of at least 2 species
crane flies
horse flies
moths of at least 6 families
mole crickets
various homopterans
eastern subterranean termites
fire ants
crawfish (duh!)
and things with backbones

- Zack