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Walked the Lucky Hammock trail for an hour before the Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society's field trip in Everglades National Park. I also walked a trail at the northern edge of LPK (Gate 9). It was flooded and I mostly focused on trying to photograph fish but it was extremely challenging as they were very wary.

All of my observations from this day:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2024-02-17&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&user_id=joemdo

Photographed four individuals and there were probably more around. I can't find any matches after looking through iNat and bugguide under Erythroneurini. Maybe in another group?
1) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122269378
2) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122269379
3) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122274138
4) https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/122274168

Set up a single sheet at a little green patch I like to visit for birding. I have looked for bugs here before too but this was the first time I set up a sheet. I used several blacklights: one bioquip powered by a battery with 12v outlet made for jumping car/inflating tires, three DJ blacklights connected to USB powerpacks. Most of the sheet visitors were small but there was a good amount of diversity. Without my macro lens it wouldn't have felt as fruitful.

I set the sheet up around 11:20PM, left and then came back to photograph everything around 2AM (I live nearby). Moon rose around 11PM and was around 95% illuminated, so I had a lot of light competition. Wind was weak when I set the sheet up but was non-existent by the time I came back.

All observations from this sheet: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?d1=2022-06-16&d2=2022-06-17&place_id=any&project_id=blacklighting-florida&user_id=joemdo

Visible in this observation of a sea urchin fragment posted by @camilyyy:
https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/344007393
It was on the underside in a tide pool

Bioblitz with Cami
All of our observations from today:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.80020640587213&nelng=-79.99685666449675&on=2024-01-01&place_id=any&subview=map&swlat=25.596412608360414&swlng=-80.20100495703825&user_id=camilyyy,joemdo

Poking around Kendall Indian Hammocks Park, mostly looking for stuff to do some macro photography. The rest of my observations from this area today: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?created_on=2023-05-18&on=2023-05-16&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&user_id=joemdo&verifiable=any