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The Patch, June 2017
The Patch is a private area of land that I am grateful to the landowner for allowing me to moth trap there. It has turned up some very interesting results. Despite the trap locations being only around 500 metres from … Continue reading
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‘The Life of Casta’
Psyche casta in fact. I have been pondering this species for some time, wishing to catch a male. I have collected numerous cases as they climb up posts, walls, plants etc to pupate and only ever found females emerging. I … Continue reading
June moths at home in Hollesley
Managed to find an opportunity to run through my records for my home and gather together a report. There is a great deal I could say and I am sure everyone else has found this June exceptionally good so I … Continue reading
Tangham 16th June
A spell of cooler weather allows time to take stock of this super June and also catch up on dissections some of which were necessary for this catch at Tangham. I visited the location where in 2014 I had captured … Continue reading
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Captain’s Wood 14th June
A bit of a lull in the hectic mothing now and perhaps later in the week so I’ll get one of my visits out of the way before the lengthier comments for others. I had a fairly good catch at … Continue reading
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Hectic Mothing
I would imagine in common with everyone else during this superb spell of mothing for June I am overwhelmed. I will post more in due course as I have some very interesting catches. However in the meantime here are two … Continue reading
Start of Summer
And an apology. In my last post I incorrectly identified the Elachista as E. utonella. It has now been correctly identified as E. scirpi. I have edited that post. Back to the start of summer. I thought it appropriate to … Continue reading
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Second half of May 2017
Yes, that was Spring. We now move on to Summer. It has a lot to live up to. I went out to Havergate Island on 24th so there was no trapping at home in Hollesley that night. I also visited … Continue reading
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Total Frustration
For those of you who hanker after the rare ones and those who get them. I have been through 2 two days of frustration and have now given up! On 28th May, which is the night when thunderstorms came up … Continue reading
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Hollesley Moths May 1st to 16th
Chose to post now as we are due two nights of persistent rain which gives a break in the mothing. Very welcome rain though as it was beginning to look like a desert here. The month started with a week … Continue reading
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