A couple of years ago I signed up to the Garden Moth Scheme following a mention on this blog. If anyone is thinking of participating this year the 2018 (Summer!!!) season starts this week. Basically you need to be able to commit to trapping in your garden for at least 27 of the following 36 weeks (preferably on a Friday night) with no gap of more than 3 weeks. I find the feedback interesting and also feel that the data collected is making a useful contribution to research.
Andy Newbold, Sibford Ferris, Oxon.
A Blog for moth recorders in Bucks, Berks and Oxon
Thanks for advertising this, Andy. I've now added the GMS website to the links on the right hand column.
ReplyDeleteThe latest research paper to come out using GMS data shows that night-time artificial lighting is indeed having a negative effect on moths - not surprising but good to see the data being used to provide evidence:
ReplyDeletehttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-018-0052-1