Author Archives: Neil

Ran both a 125w MV plus the twin 30w actinic traps in the garden Thursday night, and between them they produced my highest species count of the year so far – 81sp. Best moth a Rosy marbled in the 125w, … Continue reading →

Ran 2 traps in the area I think is the best for moth variety on the site last night. There’s wet woodland, Oak/Birch woodland, heathland and reedbed all in the same small area and I’ve had 150+ counts of species … Continue reading →

Ran 3 traps at IGC last night, one of which was the twin 30w actinic. This trap had very few moths in this morning compared to the other 2 for some reason. Certainly the best number of moths seen this … Continue reading →

Ran 2 traps last night, first time this month, mainly due to a lack of enthusiasm in the first week because of the poor weather and I was on holiday last week. Nice to see an improvement, with more moths … Continue reading →

I’ve had a look at my records for the last 4 springs to show my results to compare to Raymond’s. I’ve only looked at the commonest 2 Orthosias (don’t have time to look at them all). Figures in brackets are … Continue reading →

Ran both 125w MV plus twin 30w traps in the garden last night, resulting in 29sp, my best species total for the year. I’ll check last year’s results but I’m sure even late May 2012 I had higher species counts … Continue reading →

Tried trapping twice this week, both times the wind seemed to pick up at dusk probably reducing the expected low numbers caught to even lower than I would have thought. Quite a few empty egg trays (apart from chafers, they … Continue reading →

Went back this morning in better weather to Cornard Country park to have a look at the Small yellow underwings I spotted last weekend. They were still flying in the same area of meadow with the good amount of the … Continue reading →