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weeks,” she told the children as she prepared to leave.
Mrs. Dobrovir said that if there were six centimeters or more of moths in the trap, she would only record their depth, but for anything less, she had to hand count them. “That’s the most onerous part of this job,” she said. “The wings tend to fall off; I just count the fuselages.”. The plastic bag was sealed, labelled S-45-1 to indicate the site from which the moths had been collected, and tucked into a shopping bag behind the truck seat.
The second site of the day was near Piedmont Church on Route 681; another three centimeters worth of moths were collected here. Then on to a site further up the road where a small child watched through a screen door as she crossed the road, climbed a bank, entered the woods, and collected another five centimeters worth of moths.
At the fourth site, on up Boot Hollow, dogs danced around her feet as she passed a house where no one seemed to be home. “Dogs haven’t been as much of a problem as I thought they would be,” she said. “There is one dog I have to watch out for, and there are three sites where I put on gaiters before going in because I’m concerned about snakes.”
The trap was attached to an old abandoned apple tree that was growing new leaves. Mrs. Dobrovir expressed some concern about the oak trees in the Shenandoah National Park which are now showing the pale green of new leaves. “It takes a lot out of a tree to grow new leaves,” she said. She wasn’t sure that the trees would get enough from the new leaves in the time left this summer to make up for the energy used producing them.
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