There is a huge diversity of moths found at REGUA, most of which remain unidentified. For several years a small group of amateur entomologists have been photographing and cataloguing the moths at REGUA, using mercury vapour light traps around the reserve. Specific identification is hampered by a lack of field guides for the region, however we are slowly building a comprehensive image library and database of the species present and their flight times.

In October 2013 we constructed the world’s first ‘moth wall’ in the lodge garden – a roofed concrete wall with a mercury vapour bulb and a black fluorescent bulb on each side. The moth wall makes it easy for guests at the lodge to help us with our moth research – by photographing the moths and emailing photos of any species not shown on our checklist to us for identification.

Seen a bird at REGUA not on the list?

If you find a new bird for the list, please submit a detailed description, preferably with photographs, video, and/or sound recordings, together with details of date and time, location, observers, weather conditions, and habitat to lee.dingain@regua.org.