Saturday, 22 July 2017

MOBILE MOTHING

Now i have invested in a generator i took a set of tubes out mobile mothing on 21.7.17. It had been windy and rain for most of the day but a weather window from 2100 was on the cards. Sure enough the wind dropped off to nothing and it stopped raining.

I set up 4 x 30w actinic tubes on a sheet put over a picnic table in a woodland clearing with a friend who has just started to get into moths. 200 moths of 30 species dropped onto the sheet by 0200.

I have never seen so many Black Arches before, 30 male & 1 female covered the sheet. Other highlights and nfy moths were:- Blomer's Rivulet, Purple Thorn, Large Emerald, Mocha, Evergestis pallidata & Coxcomb Prominent.







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5 comments:

  1. GMT22 July 2017 at 10:28

    Welcome to the world of mobile nothing Mel. Looks a good set up!

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  2. GMT22 July 2017 at 10:29

    Mothing not nothing - darn autocorrect!

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  3. Mel Oxford22 July 2017 at 10:50

    Thanks George. Am looking foward to mothing in some different habitats and potting some new species....

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  4. Nick Felstead23 July 2017 at 03:48

    Hi Mel its a different world out believe me!
    I have seen E. pallidata a few times in the daytime, disturbed often from bramble but never actually trapped one yet.

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  5. Nick Felstead23 July 2017 at 03:49

    'Out there' I mean

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