Did some night walking blacklighting at AD Barnes Park. I had permission to spend the night here to keep an eye on tents set up for Native Plant Day. This is an annual event organized by the Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society. You can read more about it here: https://dade.fnpschapters.org/data/uploads/documents/npd2024program.pdf
& here is the Dade Chapter's website:
https://dade.fnpschapters.org/
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I was a bit unprepared for blacklighting as I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to. I only had 3 UV blacklights powered by USB battery packs and moved them around between midnight and around 5:30AM when I left. This observation was from walking around and not associated with blacklighting.

You can learn more about the lights I used and my typical, simple & affordable setups here: https://youtu.be/tavmTa7WoPk

Conditions: Negligible wind, moon illumination 37%, set around 1:30AM, temp around 70

Video showing all of the areas I set up lights throughout the night: https://youtu.be/Pp0-zd3oTjg

All of my blacklighting observations from Barnes:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.741335270684708&nelng=-80.30756776028727&on=2024-03-16&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&swlat=25.7360198701269&swlng=-80.31159107380961&user_id=joemdo

Non-blacklighting observations:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.741335270684708&nelng=-80.30756776028727&on=2024-03-16&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&swlat=25.7360198701269&swlng=-80.31159107380961&user_id=joemdo&not_in_project=blacklighting-florida

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