I have been completely blown away by the amount of moths, and the variety I have managed to get just in the past month.  I have had 290 species since the last update for the year, and 83 lifers.  There are more than a handful of candidates for increasing both of those numbers that currently sit at a higher taxonomic ID level.  I initially came up the goal of passing 800 lifetime, and 600 for the year.  The former is probably a low number, and the latter about right for a stretch.  Currently sitting at 785/430.  There are 2 more potential first Michigan records sitting in those numbers also since last update.  

I ended up purchasing some cheap 10w blacklights, and they dramatically improved my numbers.  This convinced me to go more in, and I purchased 2 Entolights.  The effect they had is 10-fold.  There are some nights it was hard to get out the door.  I've had to adjust my setup to move the entolights away from the door so I don't have to fight through a cloud of bugs.  

I have a myriad of pics below that I've used as placeholders for posting on other sites, so they are a bit random.  I will try to do better with the next update of some narrative order to their placement.  

We haven't even gotten to prime moth time yet and I've already seen more lifers than last year.  An early warm up certainly led to this, as well as some less ambitious birding on my part.  One highlight was the potential find of a 1st Michigan state record for an entire genus, Asaphocrita.  A little more on that later.  

Tax Day on 4/15 turned out to be an amazing night for lifers.  From left to right in each row are the 6 lifers seen on 4/15:  Siederia walshella, Virginia Pseudexentara Moth (not super confident in the ID), Intractable Quaker, Transfigured Hydriomena Moth, Coleotechnites Flower Moth, and Distinct Quaker.

The next 2 days brought 3 more lifers with Mediterranean flour moth on 4/16 (first two photos) and on 4/17 Norman's Quaker and Columbia Pug