Conditions yesterday evening were ideal, so I set out 4 traps on one of my sites hoping to get a few long awaited autumn species. Not many minutes after switching on, the hornets started to arrive. I can usually cope with a half dozen or so in a trap but they came in to one of the 125mvs faster than I could catch them and it was proving to be very uncomfortable as they were bombing in over my shoulder so I switched that one off. Inspecting the other 125mv which was 200 yards away, this was also fast filling up so that had to go off also. The other two actinic traps had a few hornets that I was able to cope with and these produced 33 species of which Sallow, Centre-barred Sallow, Large Wainscot, Lunar Underwing, Brown-spot Pinion, Beaded Chestnut and A, rhombana were some of the autumn species I’d been hoping for.
So it was a matter of what might have been if it hadn’t been for the hornet distraction!
Brian
Dont forget to drop off your dissections Brian.