Although he grew up in southern California, Dr. Chuck Sexton migrated to Austin, Texas in the mid-1970’s to attend to graduate school. Since that time, he has become a professional wildlife biologist and he’s spent almost his entire career based in Central Texas. In 1987, Sexton received his doctoral degree at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied the impacts of urbanization on birds. With the legendary naturalist Greg Lasley, he was Texas regional editor for American Birds for many years. Working for the City of Austin in the 1980s and 1990s, Sexton helped design and implement the nationally recognized Balcones Canyonlands Conservation Plan and he’s has had a hand in various important conservation projects. Following a 16-year stint with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as the wildlife biologist at the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, Sexton retired from that position in 2010. His decades-long interest in butterflies and moths has blossomed in retirement and he has now published over a dozen articles on moths and moth identification in professional journals. An active eBirder and iNaturalist, Sexton continues to lecture and lead field trips, as he will do at Mega Moth this September.