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BEN
My name is Benjamin Mark Woodard. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, and have lived there all my life. I am now 15 years old. I come from a family of six; two brothers, a little sister, my parents of
couse, and myself.
In addition to mothing, I ride my unicycle on a daily basis, down trails and off jumps. I
can play the piano, and I play soccer and football. I also enjoy playing ping-pong with my dad.
I am currently attending in south side public high school as an eleventh grade
student. However for the first seven years of my academic career, I was home
schooled, and for eighth grade i was enrolled in western pennsylvania cyber school.
Adam
Hey, all! My name is Adam Ryan Schroeder, and I have also lived my entire life in the country outside of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
I come from a family of 5.
Besides mothing, I love sports, everything from baseball to football to hockey, and
I am the biggest Steelers fan around.
I also am into old cars. My dream car is a 1968 AMC AMX.
Someday, I hope to be a play-by-play announcer for sports, any of the above
mentioned, but preferably football.
I also attend South Side High School, after going to Rhema Christian School for 1st-8th
grade. This year I will be a junior.
How We Moth
The process starts in morning, when we pepare "moth bait." Moths like to sip it
during the night. The recipe is as follows
1 cup of brown sugar
1 cup of sryup
5 oz of beer (preferable stale)
1/3 cup of honey
rotten fruit if you have it
Let it ferment until evening, then we spead it on a couple trees; It is best if the trees are along trails. After that
is done, we turn on our lights, a 175 watt mercury vapor light, a bug zapper with the zapper grid disabled
(see our home page for directions), and a few halogen lights. the mecury vapor is most effective and can be bought at
your local hardware store. Behind each light, we hang a sheet, the sheet acts as a landing pad for the
moths.
When that is done, we go inside until 10 o'clock, and then we begin to moth! We take our nets outside to the lights,
and catch any moths we want to identify or photograph then we bring them to our "moth habitats"
(we use portable mesh laundry hampers that were bought at IKEA, but they can probably be found elsewhere as well). We then
bring out our ID books, figure it out, and take pictures the next day. After that we release the moths, and do it all over
again. It is important that you don't run the light every night, or you could mess up the moths whole life. They weren't meant
to spend their whole lives sitting on a big sheet. Many will just linger in the area if you run the light every night.
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