Tagged: Moth Trapping

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Some Lovely Moths

After fencing all day and a warm evening, it looked like a nice night for some moth trapping so out went the trap and then Morgan and I examined it this morning. There weren’t huge quantities in there but there was a nice selection including some more impressive ones. 7 x Shoulder stripe 1 x...

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April Moths in Wales

The weather is improving and as the forecast was for a warm,, dry, windless night I put the moth-trap out before heading off for a mountain bike ride in the Dyfi Forest. On the drive home there were bats flying everywhere. They must have been out catching moths and other insects so it looked as though it should be a good...

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Spring Moth Photos

Continuing my efforts to do some moth photography, aiming for more aesthetic photos rather than photos purely for identification and recording purposes, here are a couple of the more common Spring moths. It was a fairly chilly, breezy night last night so numbers in the trap were low. 3 x Shoulder Stripe 8 x Common...

Clouded Drab Moth photo 1

Photographing Moths

After the success of Sunday nights Moth Trapping I thought I’d have another go on Monday. The skies were a little clearer so temperatures dropped to 5.7ºC but with light winds we still had quite a good haul: 1 x Mottled Grey 20 x Shoulder stripe 3 x Emmelina monodactyla 7 x Dotted Border 4 x...

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March Moths in Ceredigion

I haven’t had the moth trap out much again lately, but after spending a weekend in the garden and even mowing the lawn, things looked good for a night of moth trapping so I put it out on Sunday evening. I checked on it a couple of times before going to bed and although conditions...

Ceredigion Moth Trapping 2011 0

Ceredigion Moth Trapping 2011

Well, it’s been a while but we managed to put the moth trap out last night for the first time this year. Up until now it has been either too wet, too cold, too windy or I’ve been too busy. Last night looked perfect though, not warm with temperatures dropping to just below 6ºC, but...

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Moths at the Porch Light

I haven’t put the moth trap out for quite a while now – Shame on me – but the weather hasn’t really been conducive and we haven’t had the time. Although as Anna says we should probably try to put it out once a week on the same night regardless of the weather as recording...

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Photos of the Moon

It’s not surprising my Moth Trap didn’t attract many moths the other night when it was competing with this.

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Photographing Moths

As it’s been pretty much a year since we started moth trapping, many of the moths we are now getting we have seen before. Whenever I get a new species of moth to the garden I take a photo of it. These shots have been ‘voucher’ shots all taken on the same grey coloured back...

Moth Statistics in Wales 0

Moth Statistics in Wales

It’s been about a year now since I first started trapping and recording moths. It’s amazing just how many species frequent our garden. We don’t trap every night, usually only once or twice a week, but the stats so far are higher than you would expect. Total number of Moths Recorded: 3,716 Total number of...