Full moth traps – in February?!

Hello Everyone

With temperatures not dropping below 7 degrees C last night, the 2 traps I put out at the golf course last night had quite a few moths in them, even more than I had expected actually. There were 362 moths of 12 species. List as follows:

Small Brindled beauty – 136 (highest ever total beating the 71 seen one night in 2010)
March – 121
Tortricodes alternella – 72
Dotted border – 14
Yellow horned – 5
Chestnut – 3
Oak beauty – 3
Small quaker – 3
Spring usher – 2
Alucita hexadactyla – 1
Pale brindled beauty – 1
Acleris ferrugana – 1

Hope you had success if you did try. May try a trap at home in the garden tonight as it is forecast to be warm but there is some rain coming in so may not be as good.

Neil

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One Response to Full moth traps – in February?!

  1. Paul says:

    Nothing like your sort of numbers Neil, but I did get my first Common Quakers of the year last night.

    Paul

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