Thanks to the more than 45 friends who braved the dismal weather forecast and joined us at the Annual MothBall. The weather held with only 0.22 inches of rain fell during the day and only 0.02 inches after 9:00PM.
Most exciting is the increase each year of university students and their friends (from Cambridge, Amherst, Northampton, and Worcester) who made up almost 2/3 of the group. A lot of great sightings, interesting conversations and fun. The final teams called it a night @ 2:45 am. Can’t wait until National Moth week 2027 when we’ll do it again 🙂
Over the course of the night, participants uploaded almost 700 observations to iNaturalist covering almost 200 different species! Click here to view all of the observations from MothBall 2026 on iNaturalist.