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A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard
Small, obscure moths are Curtis Eckerman’s favorites: “I love seeing the little jewels that you can’t normally see.”
Micromoths—a broad descriptor that can include noctuids and moths in other families—have wingspans under twenty millimeters long, but are worth viewing through a magnifying glass or camera to admire their vivid colors and patterns. “The average student today could tell you all sorts of things about the plains of the Serengeti and interactions between zebra and lions, because National Geographic and Discovery and Disney brought it to us in high definition,” Eckerman says. “But they know far less about what’s in their own backyard than the previous generation, because they’re just not interacting with it.” Over the years, he’s stopped talking about faraway exotic animals in his courses; he instead makes lessons relevant by focusing on local fauna students have actually seen: coyotes, gray foxes, grackles, moths.
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