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Came to an overripened banana I put out to attract insects. Only got 7 individuals in the couple of times that I checked five spots all close to eachother.

Observed during the 2023 South Florida City Nature Challenge (CNCSOFLO)
Project page: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2023-south-florida-cncsoflo/
Website: https://www.cncsoflo.com/
Instagram: @ cncsoflo

I was mostly here at Mitchell Landing to blacklight but also set up a microphone to record birds migrating overhead. I heard lots of thrushes and other species, hoping to start posting those soon.

Blacklighting observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2023-04-30&d2=2023-05-01&order=asc&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&subview=map&user_id=joemdo

Seen at first sheet described below

Set up three sheets near open trail at Deering Estate North from around 22:00-00:30
Some wind, no moon. Temps in the mid 70's.

This area was evidently burned not too long ago and the dominant grass species is only just starting to come back (normally around 6 feet tall if I remember right, and tonight it was only around 2 feet tall).

1: Edge of open salt marsh habitat, lit by bioquip blacklight from 22:00-00:30
All observations from this sheet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-03-29&d2=2022-03-30&nelat=25.62846541190498&nelng=-80.29840778848276&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.627800370058946&swlng=-80.30095991036043&user_id=joemdo

2: Similar location to first sheet, lit by 1 DJ blacklight (more info on this light below) from 22:30-00:30
All observations from this sheet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-03-29&d2=2022-03-30&nelat=25.628014884468968&nelng=-80.29920396374503&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.627349840114316&swlng=-80.30004718320409&user_id=joemdo

3: Edge of mangrove habitat facing east/west trail, lit by 1 DJ blacklight from 22:40-00:15
All observations from this sheet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-03-29&d2=2022-03-30&nelat=25.62789010424732&nelng=-80.298437419117&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.627225059197862&swlng=-80.29928063857605&user_id=joemdo

All observations from this area tonight: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-03-29&d2=2022-03-30&nelat=25.63778782934046&nelng=-80.24006098310949&order=asc&place_id=any&swlat=25.61650631479218&swlng=-80.3421458582163&user_id=joemdo

Here's a video showing the DJ blacklights in action at the Pinecrest campground (Big Cypress) from Summer 2019: https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk

Info about the cheapy DJ blacklights used on the second and third sheet, great for getting started with blacklighting: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/damontighe/11836-diy-moth-light

Blacklighting project for Florida on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklighting-florida