Without further ado, here are some moths and other insects from our two nights in Mindo. As expected, the mothing was a little mind-blowing and it will take me many hours of research to identify the bounty. I'll keep the text short in this post and just post the photos. Note that the vast majority of them I have not identified yet, but they are all up on iNaturalist and I will chip away at them over the next few months. When I find the time, I will caption the ones that I have identified. Without further ado!
I'll start with some photos of "non-moths", with the moth photos following these.
And now for the moths. I have whittled it down to what I thought were some of the more interesting ones.
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There are some real beauties/designer moths here. I have no doubt you've id'd many of them by this point but never got around to adding the IDs here. Would you want to? I photographed some of the same ones at the moth sheet at Rio Silanche and I think a few other places on my trip to NW Ecuador a year and a half ago, and while I don't study or focus on moths particularly, I do love ID-ing things and enjoying every aspect of the natural world on my birding trips in the tropics, where I, like you, am drawn back to time and time again. I could have commented on so many of your blogs but am too eager to go on to the next one, there are so many, which I've been eating up! I actually read most of the more recent ones in South America a few years ago (and commented on a few of them), but I just discovered these early ones recently and I sooo identify with your passion and avidly read of your travels and discoveries, so engagingly written and so amazingly illustrated. Thank you!!!
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