Monday 7 December 2015

Curious object


From above

From one end

Spurred on by a visiting six-year-old, I put the trap out for the first time in several weeks and was rewarded this morning with a male Mottled Umber and a Red-green Carpet, both in very good condition. The eggboxes also contained this curious object - an egg hatchery? A cocoon? - and I wondered if anyone knew what it might be? My rather grubby thumb gives scale of a sort, below.  Martin Wainwright, Thrupp, Oxon
From the side
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2 comments:

  1. Dave Wilton7 December 2015 at 19:49

    No idea what it is, Martin, but would be worth keeping to see what it produces. I'd suggest cutting around it and removing from the egg-box, though, just in case it is something you wouldn't really want in your trap!

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  2. Martin Wainwright8 December 2015 at 10:18

    Many thanks Dave - I shall follow your advice. Thanks too for encouraging December trapping. I'd pretty much stopped but am about to post a couple of queries from last night. All v best M

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