No room for complacency (1 Viewer)

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Ken Noble

• Apr 25, 2004

• #1

Having wrongly called a brindled beauty as an oak tree beauty and a nut-tree tussock (see attached--first pic) as a lunar marbled brown, I'm proving my status as a novice!
So here's a few more I'm stuck on. And one in the next post. Most of the moths were outside the trap so I had to take the photos by torchlight, so sorry about the quality.
Ken

 

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Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Apr 25, 2004

• #2

and finally...

A lunar marbled brown this time???!

 

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Angus T

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• Apr 25, 2004

• #3

In order
Nut-tree tussock
Coxcomb Prominant
Possibly Brindled pug (i'll rarely be certain on pugs)
Scalloped hook-tip
Purple Thorn
and yes a Lunar Marbled Brown,

A lovely selection of moths!

 

Surreybirder

Ken Noble

• Apr 26, 2004

• #4

Thanks, Angus.
I had almost as many moths on the greenhouse as in the trap. Perhaps they see the reflection of the MV light in the glass and settle in a half-way point?
Reading recent threads on UK moths it sounds as if I should be leaving some eggboxes outside the trap (perhaps between the trap and the greenhouse). Has anyone else tried this?