Moths and lights - what do you use?

Submitted: Monday, Jun 04, 2007 at 23:03
ThreadID: 46288 Views:2909 Replies:14 FollowUps:10
This Thread has been Archived
Hi all, have just got back from a great trip up to Ningaloo, Millstream and Karijini. But we experienced the worst moths at night I have ever come across at Ningaloo (and the flys during the day were something else - first time in over 20 years I have bought a fly net for the hat!).

When using the fluro light over the camper tailgate kitchen, you could barely see the light for moths. I ended up turning the fluro off and using the worklight on the rear of the GU to try and attract the moths away. It worked to some degree, but running 2 engels off 1 battery plus the worklight for a few hours resulted in a flat 2nd battery the next morning.

I got to thinking and wondered if yellow fluro (or LED) 12V lights available and do they minimise bugs? At one stage I resorted to the red LED headlight and this seemed to work, but not really enough light to cook by.

Anyway, just wondering what others did when the moths are this bad. Interestingly, Millstream had virtually no flys or moths while Karijini had just enough to notice them, but had the Dingoes certainly howled there at night.

Cheers

Captain
Back Expand Un-Read 0 Moderator

Sponsored Links