It was a perfect night for moth trapping last night up here so I ran the two traps, checking at 3am there were only fourteen species between them and a total count of seventeen moths. The first moth spotted on top of the first trap checked being Mullein. Best moth of the night being Puss moth. First season records for me also being Poplar Hawk and Spectacle. The most peculiar record was of a Broad Bodied Chaser dragonfly larva which had crawled five feet across gravel from the nearest shallow pond to the second trap and climbed to the top of the side of the box to complete its metamorphosis.
Keith
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I’d agree it seemed a better night. In the garden trap I had a few species – Pale Tussock, Spectacle, Mullein, Grey Pine Carpet, Cabbage, Turnip and a few others already seen this year.