For NMN I ended up carrying out my monthly survey at a local woodland site on Friday night and heading down to Thatcham to join Berks Moth Group on Saturday night. Friday provided a few nice moths with several Merveille du Jour and another Clifden Nonpareil. Numbers weren't great but there were a few surprises including fresh Light Emerald, several fresh Straw Dot and a fresh Yellow-tail. I had feared that I had missed Oak Lutestring this year as I normally catch it much earlier in the year and hadn't caught one in 2017 so far, so a fairly fresh one of these also came as a welcome surprise.
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| Just another Clifden Nonpareil! - 13-10-17 VC22 |
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| Yellow-tail - one of quite a few species squeezing in extra broods this year - 13-10-17 VC22 |
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| Oak Lutestring 13-10-17 VC22 |
Like many moth-ers around the UK, yesterdays storm got me excited and I switched the actinic light in the south facing part of the garden for an MV trap last night hoping for something special. I got fewer moths than I have had for a while and the one decent moth, a Vestal, was in a little actinic trap I put under a tree near the house expecting to catch very little at all!
Marc Botham, Didcot
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| Vestal - Didcot, 16-10-17 |
I've tried for it but I think I've missed out on Oak Lutestring this year :-(
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