Spring Moths
It’s been ages since we put the moth trap out. The last time was back in August last year. Terrible I know, but the weather hasn’t been kind and we’ve been busy so finding an evening where it wasn’t going to rain and when Morgan and I would hjave time to go through the trap in the morning has been difficult.
We did finally put it out last night though and there were a few Spring moths in it this morning. Nothing too exciting , but it’s good to see that they are still out and about when the lights are out. In the trap this morning were:
- 2x Early Grey
- 1x Shoulder Stripe
- 9x Hebrew Character
- 2x Powdered Quaker Quaker
- 1x Clouded Drab
- 1x Common Quaker
- 1x Mottled Grey
- 1x Red Chestnut
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- Mottled Grey
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- Mottled Grey
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- Red Chestnut
By matter of conmparison I thought I’d look back to see what we were getting at this time of year in previous years and things do indeed seem fairly similar.
24th April 2013
- 4x Shoulder stripe
- 1x Red Sword-grass
- 6x Hebrew Character
- 1x Early Thorn
- 2x Small Quaker
- 1x Clouded Drab
- 1x Early Tooth-striped
23rd March 2012
- 2x Early Grey
- 1x Common Quaker
- 2x Hebrew Character
6th April 2012
- 1x Angle Shades
- 3x Clouded Drab
- 3x Early Grey
- 1x Early Thorn
- 1x Emmelina monodactyla
- 17x Hebrew Character
- 1x Mottled Grey
- 7x Powdered Quaker
- x6 Red Chestnut
- 1x Red Sword-grass
- 8x Shoulder stripe
- 1x Small Quaker
4th April 2010
- 1x Early Grey
- 1x Pine Beauty
- 1x Small Quaker
- 4x Hebrew Character
- 1x Common Quaker
- 1x Red Chestnut
All in all a fairly consistent haul of Spring Moths throughout the years, although 2012 seemed like a good year.
