Night of 6/6/2014 – What happened to the good condtions forecast?

Decided to run 2 traps at home as well as attending the SMG event last night as the weather forecast was predicting potentially good conditions for a bumper catch of moths. As you can see from the report on the SMG event, was not a great night in the end there, so how did my traps fare at home? Pretty poor really, not much flying round the lights when I got home in the early hours so closed the traps up for later checking. Later on only found 37sp, with only 2-3 moths per egg tray. Think the clear sky must have really knocked the numbers down, although recently I would say here that numbers have dropped down from the earlier good catches. Best moth probably Broom-tip. Another queen Hornet too, my 5th this year so far!

Neil

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