An Angle Shades joins the guests for Christmas dinner (1 Viewer)

For years I have set my moth trap on Christmas Day and New Years day, in an attempt to catch a macro moth on either of those days, and every time I have failed, with just Light Brown Apple Moths on both days the best I could muster.

This year my interest in mothing has waned a bit, and I haven't trapped since June, and wasn't planning on doing tonight. So today we were just setting the table for Christmas dinner, and there it was, on the curtain, an Angle Shades, presumably emerged from hibernation. No doubt, like buses, they'll all now come at once...... maybe I should put the trap on tonight after all.

I put my trap out in the garden Christmas Eve as it was fairly mild, I also hadn't trapped since early November so had began to forget what a moth looked like.

Anyway,Santa brought me a Winter Moth !


Damian

I had an Angle shades at light on New Years Eve.

I don't believe they hibernate, but do appear indoors in houses that have Geraniums inside. One of the foodplants. Especially Geraniums brought in from outside for the winter