Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
October 18th 2009 My Dad was here so we put the trap out to see what we could get. *= New to our trap. 1 Dark Sword Grass * 1 Angle Shades 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character 5 Red-line Quaker 1 Large Wainscot 1 Black Rustic 5 Lunar Underwing 1 Feathered Ranunculus October 21st 2009 A...
Another week and more moth trapping. 10th October 2009 It looked like a good night so after last nights successful trapping we put the moth trap out again. Temperatures remained mild, only dropping to 13.8ºC and there was no rain and relatively light winds; Westerly, gusting to 20 knots.. 1x Angle Shades * 3x Silver...
I’ve been doing quite a bit of moth-trapping lately. Usually it just involves placing a moth trap in the garden overnight and then investigating the contents in the morning. The identification, counting and photographing of the moths can take a while sometimes, but generally its a fairly laid back affair. Last night was a lovely...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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