Back in the 1980's, my brother Duncan, our mate Rich Heddington, and myself were busy running regular moth traps from our family home in Chard. We caught and identified a large number of species over the years using a very powerful mercury vapour light trap borrowed from our secondary school. It pulled hundreds of moths on a good night with the added advantage that we always had a good tan! Thirty eight years later and I'm still looking at moths. This time courtesy of my friend Nigel Marven, who owns a twin actinic Skinner trap.
Last night we took the kids to stay in Nigel's family home on the east Devon coast, a prime opportunity to run the trap and my bat detector somewhere different.
Both provided good results with nine species of bat, including Leisler's, Lesser Horseshoe and a Barbastelle. The moth trap yielded 23 species of moths.
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| Beautiful location to run the moth trap. |
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Ruby Tiger - half-a-dozen of these
beauties in the trap. |
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| Leopard Moth |
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| Buff Arches |
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| Pebble Prominent |
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| Sallow Kitten |
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| Nut-tree Tussock |
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| Jake enjoying a book by head torch. |
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| Pale Prominent |
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| Flame Shoulder |
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| Oak Eggar, female |
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| Black Arches |
A stroll this morning produced good numbers of Comma butterflies along the local lanes with a single Painted Lady, six Holly Blues and four Wood Whites.
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| Pair of Wood Whites |
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| Holly Blue |
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