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Nature

Moth-Trapping in Portland

Seeing as I’m a little obsessed with moth trapping at the moment I thought I’d share this from BBC Autumnwatch. They were moth-trapping in Portland, a place I know really well as I spent 5 years of my life studying its geology for a PhD. (Which I never quite finished). I did get pretty intimate...

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General / Nature

October Moths – This Weeks Moth Trapping

3rd October 2009 Our second night of Moth Trapping. It started out really windy so I lashed the trap to a breeze-block to stop it from blowing away. Not ideal mothing conditions, and that was further compounded by a full moon. The wind was forecast to ease overnight though so I was still hoping for...

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Nature / Photography

A range of moths

Not a great night for moth-trapping last night. Light winds and dry which is good, but the temperature dropped to 2ºC and we only got 5 moths. I think all 5 of them were Lunar Underwings (Omphaloscelis lunosa), but as you can see from the photos below there’s quite a bit of variation in colour...

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Nature

More Moth Trapping

Morgan and I have put the moth trap out a couple of times this month. The first night it was pretty windy but we did get 6 moths in the trap. We also put it out last night, but as there was quite a lot of rain forecast I brought it in at around 10.30pm...

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Nature

Ceredigion Moths

As you should know by now, a recent moth trapping night at Ynyslas Nature Reserve prompted us to look into buying a moth trap. Well, the trap arrived yesterday so we put it out last night and it worked, we had a nice collection of moths in the trap this morning. Along of course with...

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Nature

Buying a Moth Trap

I can’t claim to be an expert in the world of Moth trapping and moth traps, but I’m keen to get started and have been doing some research into the best traps to get so thought I’d share my findings here. Hopefully it will be of use to people in the same position as me...

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Nature

Moth Trapping in Ceredigion

The end of a busy weekend with no time for blogging, so here’s my first blog entry about what we got up to. It was National Moth Night on Sept 18th-19th. National Moth Night (NMN) is Britain’s celebration of moths and moth recording and started in 1999. As well as producing information about moths, an...

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Family / Nature / Wales

Things to do in Ynyslas Dunes

It looks as though we have a busy weekend ahead of us. My parents are visiting so Morgan is looking forward to seeing ‘Ninny and Grandad’ and we’ve been looking for things to do. There is quite a bit going on at the Ynyslas Dunes Visitor centre. On Friday evening they are organising a ‘National...

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Nature

Can I eat these?

I think this is the best day weather-wise that we’ve had all year. Perfect blue skies, 19ºC and a very gentle breeze. The sea is dead calm and there are very few people on the beach. Lovely. There are some tasty looking mushrooms in the dunes too, I wonder if they are edible? I really...