Thursday, 16 July 2020

Moth attracted to LUN pheromone

I ordered the new LUN pheromone earlier this week, which arrived yesterday, so I thought I would try it out in the garden this afternoon, even though the weather and habitat weren't ideal.  I left the trap up for an hour or so over lunch and when I checked it, there were no clearwings, but a small micro, c4mm long, so not really tiny.  It was very active, so I cooled it in the fridge to try and get a record shot.  I struggled to even place it in a family.

I would welcome comments, in case I am missing something obvious, but I think it resembles Triaxomasia caprimulgella. One to retain I think.

Edit: of interest, I have just heard that T. caprimulgella was also attracted to the LUN lure in Devon last week, so this is a potential bycatch. Worth trying in local woodland maybe.


Adam Bassett
Marlow Bottom

1 comment:

  1. Hi Adam,

    I think you could well be correct with caprimulgella. There are only two records for Bucks (both from the Burnham Beeches RIS trap) so certainly one to retain for Peter!

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