“Much Ado About Mothing”
by Susan Mulvihill and Carl Barrentine
Susan Mulvihill and Carl Barrentine will share their enthusiasms for the “Dark Side” of lepidoptery. Susan’s presentation will highlight her 2020 efforts to find and photograph moths in her Spokane backyard. Carl’s presentation will revisit the 2018 Moths v. Birds “BIG Year” competition with local Bird Watcher Tim O'Brien. He will also give an update on his third season of finding and photographing local moths.
Local garden guru, author and Spokesman-Review garden columnist, Susan Mulvihill, will share how and why she got into backyard mothing. Susan will discuss a simple mothing set-up that has been very effective, photos of some of the moths she captured this summer, and a couple of interesting lessons she learned along the way.
An old man now, Carl Barrentine is retired from two college teaching careers--one in Biology at California State University, Bakersfield and the other in Humanities, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. Nowadays Carl spends his declining years finding and photographing the moths of Spokane County, Washington. This journey to The Dark Side began ten years ago, back in 2011 when Carl’s life-long passion for birds was eclipsed by an obsession with moths.
