Tagged: Ceredigion

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Ceredigion Moths – A Varied Catch

The weather wasn’t great for moth trapping on Saturday night. It was raining when I put the trap out and then the wind picked up with gusts to 31.6 knots and average wind speed around 20-25 knots for most of the night. The temperature dropped to 13.8ºC, but there was still quite a varied catch...

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Moth Trapping – A Record Catch

I thought last night would be a good night for the moths. Temperatures stayed above 15ºC and when I put the trap out there was no wind and some light rain. The rain eased overnight and the wind picked up a little but there were still plenty of moths in the trap this morning. In...

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Moths from Ynyslas

Another good night for the moth trap last night. The weather was still, a little overcast and temperatures only dropped to 10.6ºC. In the trap this orning were 108 moths from 29 different species, which included 4 new garden records. 2x Scarce Footman* 1x Small Magpie 26 x Lackey 3x Wormwood Pug 2x Garden Tiger...

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Silky Wainscot

We had a couple of fairly standard nights in the Moth trap over the weekend. Saturday had the most moths in the trap and included a new on to me, the Silky Wainscot – Not rare in the county, but not common either just just a smattering of records. The full list from Saturday night...

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Moth Trapping

Another good night for the moth trap. Light winds and temperatures held up with a minimum of 9.6ºC so the trap was full this morning. Lots of micro moths but I’m not taking too much notice of those at the moment as I’m trying to familiarise myself with the macro moths first, but some of...

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More Garden Moths

As it was Father’s Day on Sunday and my present from Morgan was a collection of moth pots to allow me to store and identify the moths a little easier I put the trap out again on Saturday Night. When we returned from out Nightjar and Glow Worm Walk, Morgan and I had a little...

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Friday Night Moths

Not a bad night last night in the moth trap. Light winds, a tiny bit of rain and temperatures down to 8ºC. There was plenty in the trap and I went through the contents with a few people from the Ceredigion Moth Group at a meeting we had today (I’ll blog about that separately). There...

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Ceredigion Moth Group Meeting

Plans are a foot for a little meet up of the Ceredigion Moth Group on Saturday. It’s all fairly informal, just a get together to go through the contents of a couple of traps. Hopefully one from the dunes, one from the bog and my trap from the garden here. After that, we’ll probably have...

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A few new moths

We put the moth trap out a couple of times over the weekend and got quite a few moths in the trap, but nothing new. The average seems to be around about 60-80 moths at the moment from approximately 25 species. Last night looked like a good night so I put the trap out again...

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More from the Moth Trap

I moved the moth trap away from the Lilac last night and had a much more manageable catch which didn’t take long to go through: 2x White Ermine 1x Eyed Hawkmoth 1x Oligia sp. 2x Common Marbled Carpet 2x Broom Moth 3x Heart and Dart 12x Flame Shoulder 3x Setaceous Hebrew Character 10x Small Square-spot...