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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nerine" data-source="post: 1592469" data-attributes="member: 3922">Hi socksitisThis is my third year trapping moths.  For two years I used an actinic heath trap only.  My kind C.R. has lent me an MV robinson trap this year.  I don't normally use the two together but being National Moth Night (and the conditions were good)  I wanted to get as many species as possible so I put the actinic up by the house and the robinson at the bottom end of the garden by the trees.On this night I had 16 species with the actinic and over 40 species with the MV.  Turnip Moth and Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing were the only species in the actinic not trapped by the MV.  I would imagine the Turnip and B-b YU arrived at the actinic first before they could get to the MV bulb - I don't think it was because they preferred it!I haven't noticed any big difference in the type of moths caught in the two traps.  Some people say you get more geometers with an actinic but I haven't noticed this.  You certainly catch many, many more moths with an MV bulb giving you the chance of more species and also a larger number of each species e.g. on NMN I caught 14 Large Yellow Underwings with the actinic and 47 with the MV.I found the actinic brilliant for the first two years when I was just learning.  I'm still learning but (sometimes) I can cope with a larger catch so I quite like using the MV and the neighbours haven't complained about the flood-lit garden thank goodness!I hope I've answered your question. Nerineps A thought: It may be that Hawk-moths are more attracted to a brighter bulb - I've had Small Elephant, Striped, Pine and Convolvulus this year all to the MV and all new to the garden.  Just Privet and Poplar to the actinic (and MV too.)</blockquote>

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