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Friday, 8 May 2020

Great new mothing accessory!

I thought you might like to see my new piece of kit. It's a pop up mosquito tent that I place over my trap(I cut the bottom out) in the morning before I open up the trap. It is fantastic at stopping all those interesting moths that always get away too quickly before being identified!
I had a good night last night with 45 moths of 15 species. Including 4 Lobster moths, Pebble Hook Tip, Green Carpet, Orange Footman and Marbled Brown.

Lorna Woolhouse, Checkendon, South Oxon
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3 comments:

  1. Dave Wilton8 May 2020 at 20:54

    That's a novel idea! If you can find a way to peg it down it would also be a useful method of keeping the birds at bay from dawn until you are ready to go through the trap.

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  2. Steve Trigg8 May 2020 at 22:05

    I like the little stool! Better then kneeling or bending over double.

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  3. Tim Arnold9 May 2020 at 12:35

    I have another way of avoiding a lot of kneeling or bending over: I use the kind of folding table that is sold in DIY stores for use when wallpapering, and I lift the trap onto it for emptying. However, I really like Lorna's mosquito tent - in the summer I lose quite a few moths when I try to photograph them and I think that some escape between the time that I close the trap before dawn and when I start to empty it after breakfast.

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