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.