UPCOMING MOTHING EVENTS - 2027
June 12, 19, 26
Butterfly Ridge
Rockbridge, Ohio
9PM-Midnight
$6 admission
Organizations that are working with us to schedule mothing events:
National Butterfly Center (Mission, TX)
Boyce Thompson Arboretum (Superior, AZ)
Growing Memories Flower Farm (Ore City, TX)
Infirmary Mound Park (Granville, OH)
Leland City Parks (Leland, NC)
Great Plains Nature Center (Wichita, KS)
Individuals and families from these communities have also expressed interest:
Ann Arbor, MI
Versailles, IN
Norman, OK
Youngstown, OH
Cleveland, OH
Pittsburgh, PA
Past Mothing Events
Brown Canyon, Arizona - August, 2008
Stictocompe suffusa
Erythrina Borer
Tamaulipan Lichen Moth
Eumorpha typhon
Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior, AZ - 2007/8
Perpendicular Graphic
Clio Tiger
White-lined Sphinx
National Butterfly Center, Mission, Texas - October 24, 2025
Beautiful Wave
Hickory Tussock
Our species count at any given event will range from 30 to over 200. Pictured here are a few of the cool moths documented at each event.
Rufous-banded Crambid
Julia's Dicymolomia
Decker’s Creek, Morgantown, WV - June 5, 2023
Harnessed Tiger
Corn Earworm
Pink-striped Oakworm
Photo courtesy of Heather Isham
Isabella Tiger (Wooly Bear)
Pickaway County Parks HQ, Circleville, OH - August 3, 2024
Polyphemus
Coffee-loving Pyrausta
Common Spragueia
Butterfly Ridge Mothing Zone, Rockbridge, OH - July 1, 2026
Banded Scardiella
Abbott’s Sphinx
Nessus Sphinx
Butterfly Ridge Mothing Zone, Rockbridge, OH - July 1, 2026
Butterfly Ridge Mothing Zone, Rockbridge, OH - July 25, 2026
Pink-shaded Fern
Waved Sphinx
Citheronia splendens
Bicolored Chloraspilates
Gracile Palpita
Pyrausta augustalis
Six-spotted Gray
Orangewing
Blind Sphinx
The Polyphemus Flying Circus - This Polyphemus moth gave us grief the other night. With every attempt to photograph him he would spaz and be all hyper, and then when our backs were turned he would settle down all nice. He knew he was screwing with us! The red arrow will help you keep track of him.
Small Tolype
Eumorpha achemon
Fernaaldella stalachtaria
Silvered Prominent
Beggar
Salt Marsh
Pine Devil
Gray Spruce Looper