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Andy Adcock

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I've been trapping at my place in Nottingham for 15 years now and every year, I ponder if this will be my first tickless year.

Well it won't be this year after this beauty dropped in, can't believe it's taken so long to get one.
 

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If ever there was a gift that kept on giving, moth-ing is surely it! I'm spending my third summer at a site in north-east Cornwall where I trapped intensively in 2017. I'm not running a trap this year but I've already picked up a dozen new macro species just in the porch lights out front including a couple of crackers like Great Prominent, Engrailed and Mottled Beauty.
 
I'll miss Russia for mothing.

Our location amidst damp heath, ensured an array of habitat specific species that are very tough to see in the UK.
 
Can you believe I got another last night!

Definitely a different insect, no damage to the left wing.

I’ve only ever had one in c15 years of trapping!, adjacent to ride and broad-leaved woodland, as an aside andy do you get White Prominent at your Russian address?

Cheers
 
I’ve only ever had one in c15 years of trapping!, adjacent to ride and broad-leaved woodland, as an aside andy do you get White Prominent at your Russian address?

Cheers

Very sadly no Ken.

We're surreounded by Birch but much of it is set amidst swamp forest which I think, has an effect on some species, especially those whose pupae, winter underground as here.
 
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