Hello again World! My prolonged rest from trapping may be ending at last, if forecasts of warmer weather turn out to be true. Life has been busy as ever and even the tireless commander of the Upper Thames Moths blog, Dave Wilton, has skipped the odd icy night recently. But I have a visitor tomorrow who has got the lucky chance of going on an ecological survey in Kenya and would like to see how the trap works. So I thought I had better do a dry run.
The results are above: nothing spectacular but it's nice to see a well-marked Pale Pinion, bottom right, which will have overwintered after hatching in the Autumn. The others, clockwise from top left, are a March moth which has got its months messed up as happens with all UK moths named after the calendar, a Brindled Beauty in its beautiful fur coat, a Brindled Pug wearing its similar but smaller raiment and a Hebrew Character - the last the most common moth in the eggboxes.
I did run the trap a month or so ago and got Brindled Beauties and Hebrew Character then too. But there are reports of Emperor moths on the wing locally and we won't have long to wait before things get more exciting.
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