It didn't stay long, maybe a minute.

I seem to recall leaving the young cats and some unhatched eggs on a tree but don't recall what species. I'm not much of a lepper I guess ;-)

I'm mainly a beetle photographer but I usually use a moth sheet with my mercury vapor lights so it's not outrageous for a moth or two (hundred sometimes) to arrive. I used to shoot moth sheet visitors in situ but now I just grab the beetles and shoot them at home in my light arena so the moth images have fallen off drastically.

I do not have my own Web site but if you do searches for "Organ Mountains" and "Organ Mts." on this site, you will see most of what I've posted from a couple New Mexico trips. You can also visit my flickr.com page to see beetles and other insects (a few leps) from my 2004 trip to eastern Ecuador. Many of my California finds are from the tiny town of "Cool," another bugguide search term that should fetch a bunch of my images along with a few hundred "cool" bugs :-)

I hope to retire and move to Ecuador in 2011 to find and photograph undiscovered species, documenting their life cycle whenever possible.

You know, there is a Chinese curse that goes "May you have an interesting life," and I guess I have been cursed alright. Or blessed, since I've enjoyed the journey thus far. To see other details google "Jim McClarin." It's almost all about me.

From your personal page it looks like you have an idyllic cottage location for communing with nature. Will watch for more of your postings.