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Recent content by smokenack

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    Makeshift travel trap?

    I take a WEMlite bulb, ceramic bulb holder and a good length of flex with me. It's all very light and doesn't take up too much space. My experiments with LED torches have shown them to be a complete waste of time though that was several years ago, they may be better now.
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    June moths

    Had my first Grass Rivulet a couple of weeks ago Ken. Always nice to see a new macro species. June has carried on where May left off, moth numbers way above what I would normally expect. I've recorded c.150 species so far this year as opposed to c.50 by this date last year. I'm sure that they...
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    May Moths

    After two nights of no trapping due to the rain back to normal last night with 8 moths of 5 species.
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    Micro

    FL 4mm. The apical dot is clearly defined pure white to the naked eye not diffused as the photo suggests. To 125mv in Southend on 16.05.17. Thanks
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    May Moths

    Extraordinary night last night, 16.05.17, 112 moths of 42 species. Quite ridiculous for my garden in mid May, the highest May species count in one night prior to this year was 19. Unlike most other people I'm having a very good mothing year. |:$|
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    April Moths

    L-album Wainscot by the trap this morning, a couple of months earlier than usual in my garden .
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    Caloptilia sp.

    Stigmatella, semifascia or something else? 29th March in Southend. Photo too poor for ID maybe? Thanks for looking Nick
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    March Moths.

    29th and 30th were also my best March nights ever. 46 moths of 9 species and 45 moths of 10 species. I've recorded 15 species so far this year of which 4 have been new for my garden. A really good start to the year so far.
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    Waring 3rd Ed

    Mine came yesterday. My wife asked 'do you really need another' and to be honest no I don't. An excellent guide but if you have either of the first two editions I wouldn't bother.
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    October 2016 GB&I

    16 E.postvittana and a Rusty-dot Pearl last night. A couple more nights and then that's me done until March. Winter trapping in my garden has always been a complete waste of time.
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    October 2016 GB&I

    Yes that's right Martin, I'll just be running a light outside my hotel rooms where possible for observation and photography. Any informatuon you can obtain would be appreciated. One of our guides last year in Mozambique said that I was 'fishing for moths' which I thought was lovely. Thanks Nick
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    October 2016 GB&I

    Still chugging along, 8 moths of 6 species last night. I've had my 2nd and 3rd Barred Sallow over the last week so that's been nice. Looks like I've missed out on the Convolvulus Hawk invasion |=(| I'll carry on until early November when I go on holiday to Madagascar for a couple of weeks plant...
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    October 2016 GB&I

    Had my first for the garden on th 7th. Astonishingly (at least to me) this would appear to be only the 2nd post 1990 record for VC18 although Brian Goodey in his Moths of Essex shows a few historic records for the vice county. I thought that it was a regular migrant as I often see it mentioned...
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    October 2016 GB&I

    After a very quiet start to the month last night produced a respectable 24 moths of 12 species including my first garden Acleris sparsana (please correct me if I have that wrong, FW 10mm) and a late Plumed Fan-foot which makes 26 for the year over 20 nights.
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    September Moths GB&I

    Numbers noticeably decreasing now, 55 moths of 12 species last night including my first ever Black Rustic so well pleased with that. One of the species that I've been expecting since I started trapping but has taken a long time to show up.
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