Tagged: Moth Trapping

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Naturalist Weekend

I’ve just spent the weekend in Conwy. I decided to head up to North Wales as there was a North Wales Moth Recorders’ Meeting at the Pensychnant Conservation Centre. I travelled there on Saturday, stopping on the way to do a few geocaches and arrived in plenty of time for the meeting. After a coffee...

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Mottled Grey Moth

The moth-trapping season is just getting underway and although we’ve yet to catch any moths in the moth trap, we are getting some attracted to the porch light. As I’m still fairly new to moth trapping, most of the species I catch at the moment are new to me, so here’s a new one from...

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Moths at Last

So far this year my moth-trapping exploits have been a little disappointing. We’ve put the moth trap out a few times but have had no success. This has been made more frustrating by the fact that I have seen plenty of moths on the wing in front of my headlights whilst driving between Aberystwyth and...

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Spring Usher – Ceredigion Moths

I’ve put the moth trap out a few times this winter but with no luck, but last night I caught our first moth of the year near to the porch light. A Spring Usher (Agriopis leucophaeria). Not a bad looking moth and hopefully one that is ushering in the spring, although, we’ve woken up to...

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Ceredigion Moth Records

The Ceredigion Moth Group is up and running and we seem to be making some progress. I’ve set up a mailing list so that we can all keep in touch with each other and we have been sending our records from 2009 to the new County Recorder. I only had a fairly small number of...

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Ceredigion Moth Group

I attended the formative meeting of the Ceredigion Moth Group last night. Unfortunately there hasn’t been an active moth group in the county for quite some time and there hasn’t really been any structured recording of the species that we get. All other counties in England and Wales seem to have active moth groups and...

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No Moths

Its been a while since I put the Moth Trap out. The weather hasn’t been ideal and I haven’t had much time or I’ve been away, but I put it out on Tuesday night just to see if anything would come along. I thought we might get one or two, but the sub-zero temperatures didn’t...

What no Moths? Part 2 1

What no Moths? Part 2

Last night was the first dry, windless night we’ve had for a while so I put the moth trap out to see what we could catch. We awoke this morning to the first frost of the winter and not a moth in sight. The first night since getting the moth trap that we’ve caught nothing....

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What no Moths?

Don’t worry, I haven’t stopped moth trapping. I haven’t posted any lists of ‘this weeks moths’ as it has just been far too wet and windy to deploy the trap this week. Things should be fairly quiet on the moth front at this time of year, but I shall still be putting it out now...

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This weeks Moths

October 26th 2009 13ºC and damp. 1 Rush Veneer 1 Red-line Quaker 1 Angle Shades 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character 1 Large Yellow Underwing 1 Large Wainscot 1 Feathered Ranunculus October 29th 2009 13ºC, moderate winds 1 Black Rustic 1 Large Wainscot 1 November Moth New this week