I'm not sure that it actually is mid-winter quite yet but there's some sort of solstice on 21st December - goodness, tomorrow I mean - so we can't be far away by any definition. Not the most prosperous time of year for moths, then, but they are still about. Before it turned cold again, I put out the trap for a second and third night after my last post and a very small handful of visitors turned up.
Two to be precise, both Winter Moths and both in good and rather attractive condition. The sceond one obligingly spent the night inside the plastic cowl and so I was able to photograph its underside, although I'm sorry that the picture is a bit blurry. The cowl is very battered after many years of use.
I put the trap close to a wall with a lot of ivy in leaf nearby in the hope that hibernating moths might be lured out. No luck this time but my moth-minded granddaughter and her brothers roll up here on Sunday night so we'll all have another go then.
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