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Non-blacklighting nocturnal observation at Dagny Johnson for a bioblitz organized by Dr. Fletcher and park biologist Trudy Ferraro. I was also granted access to blacklight at night and snap some photos of insects!

All of my blacklighting observations from this visit:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-04-06&order=asc&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo

Non-blacklighting observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?not_in_project=blacklighting-florida&on=2024-04-06&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&subview=table&user_id=joemdo

Video showing the lights I use during a typical setup:
https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk

Journal post with notes about my observations for the bioblitz: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/joemdo/91924-dagny-johnson-bioblitz-april-6th-2024

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

Emerged from mud nest on 8/10/2023

Best guess is a predatory wasp paralyzed and collected the caterpillar into its mud nest. The wasp egg wasn't viable for some reason and never hatched to eat the stored food. So the paralyzation wore off and the caterpillar just pupated in the wasp nest. Not sure how else a caterpillar would have ended up in a mud nest like that. Other explanations are welcome.