Daegan Inward - Entomologist

Deagan Inward is an Entomologist. He says "I feel priviliged to be able to work with the natural world. To be out there collecting these organisms, looking at them in the wild, to have travelled to these fantastic places to collect and understand them has been a dream come true."
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We were shown a demonstration of a "Insect Light Trap" for the study of moths by BNHS Group Leaders Dr V.Shubhalaxmi and Mr Vandan.Jhaveri. A white cloth, akin to a movie screen was set against the wall. A "Fluorescent Lamp" was attached at the top of the screen and brightly lit in the darkness of the night.This procedure of trapping moths for study and photography has to be done preferably on the eve of the "New Moon" when the night is at its darkest.The moths are attracted towards the light and settle on the white cloth, something amazing to a new-comer watching this procedure for the first time . The moths remain in a trance like condition and can be physically handled as well as photographed, totally refusing to fly away from the white sheet of cloth.Once the bright fluorescent light is switched off, the moths immediately fly away leaving the white screen totally blank, akin to the end of a movie in a theater. Dr V.Shubhalaxmi is an authority on the study of moths in India having received a fellowship from the "Humphrey Fellowship at Boston(USA)" for discovering a new moth species in Arunachal Pradesh.She is to lead an "Entomological Expedition" in 2011 to Arunachal Pradesh in trying to locate a specimen of this newly discovered moth and if successful will have the privilege of naming this moth! We were really lucky to have the guidance of such an esteemed entomologist in our midst and everyone was busy photographing the moths while Dr V.Shubhalaxmi explained in ...
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