SUGARING FOR MOTHS

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SUGARING FOR MOTHS

• Dr. Duke Elsner
• Hike Leader

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Black Light

• Attracts nocturnal insects
• to a white sheet.

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Sugar recipe is made ofrotting plums, brown
sugar, white sugar and malt liquor, that has been
stirred, left to sit a few days, and painted on
tree trunks.
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It attracts many moths.

• Catocala relicta

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Catocala ilia
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Phlogophora periculosa
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Zale lunata
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The Sugar Recipe attractsmore than moths.

• Moth and Millipede

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Carpenter Ants
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Predator Beetle
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Burying Beetle
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Gray Tree Frog
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Mammals are also attracted to the sweet smell.
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A baby Raccoon loved it!
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Dukes Pet
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Another Duke Pet
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Seen along the way

• Orb Spider

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Also seen

• Slug and Mosquito Larvae
• in a tree hole.

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The End!

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