{"id":2726,"date":"2009-10-11T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T05:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2009-10-11T06:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T05:55:48","slug":"moth-trapping-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/moth-trapping-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Moth-Trapping in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as I&#8217;m a little obsessed with moth trapping at the moment I thought I&#8217;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). 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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). 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