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I'm taking a break from my National Moth Week spottings to celebrate my 4,000th spotting with my first spotting of a live Luna Moth! A family friend found this Luna Moth at my school, and brought it over to me. I was overjoyed! A recent study discovered Luna moths use their especially long tails to deflect bat echolocation. See the reference link to the right.
Spotted on Jun 21, 2014
Submitted on Feb 19, 2015
11 Comments
Thank you so much, armadeus and Maria! Armadeus, it is a good thing they can deflect bat location because they are otherwise very weak fliers!
Great choice for spotting 4000, Jacob! Congratulations on a very nice spotting indeed!
Congratulations on 4,000 spottings Jacob. This is a wonderful spotting to celebrate with! I did read about these moths deflecting bat echolocation only a day or two ago but a different link...fascinating stuff. Thank you for sharing :)
Thank you very much venus, Reza, Joshua, and Hema!
great fact!!
Excellent! Keep em coming!
Here is to 40,000 more. Congratulations J !
congrats!
Sukanya, thank you so much! I was not surprised to hear about the math-bat interactions, as these moths are fairly weak fliers! Yes, Project Noah is still joining with National Moth Week for 2015. The dates this year are July 18-26 (http://nationalmothweek.org). I'm still working on uploading my finds from last year so I can process the 2014 data.
Sergio, thank you very much for your kind words. To hear that my collection is "wonderful" from someone I consider to be one of the best spotters on Project Noah, I am overjoyed. I will continue to post, and thank you again for the encouragement!
Congratulations for your 4,000th spotting, Jacob. It is not just an amazing number, but a wonderful collection too. It's been great to follow your findings and your work in behalf of the Moth Week. I hope you keep posting all these wonders here. Great job, Jake! :-)
Congratulations, and thank you for sharing...especially the info about confounding the bats. Good Luck with your Moth spotting week...is PN joining in...like last year?