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Monday, 5 September 2011

The Initiation

I went to my first ever real moth trapping session this evening with Derek, Andy, Roger and Grommit. 17 species , new ones for me being Orange Swift, Red Underwing, Flounced Rustic, Six-striped Rustic and on the micro front: Garden Pebble (in the obs), Light Brown Apple and Bramble Shoot.

Before we started Derek read a prayer



Red Underwing


Orange Swift

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5 comments:

  1. wolfy6 September 2011 at 01:05

    Marvelous! I especially love the moth hunting hound in the first photo.

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  2. Lee Dingain6 September 2011 at 08:21

    Red Underwing is a corker! Haven't seen one for ages, but then I haven't been mothing for ages!

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  3. Peter Alfrey6 September 2011 at 22:59

    An Old Lady almost got eaten by the hound!

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  4. Des McKenzie,7 September 2011 at 01:33

    Pete, nice one. Not long into moth-trapping events myself (some few years now), enjoyable or what? They keep on coming, loads to learn, and a challenge on occasion.

    I'm guessing that birders will help map macros with aplomb before long, lepidopterists being relativley uncommon - and butterflies / moths being properly irresistible. Besides, it ain't often you can regularly expect five or more new spp. on a casual jaunt (unless you tick bacterium).

    Some notable once once said something like 'the study of lepidoptera is the study of variation;

    Get in.

    Des McKenzie

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  5. Peter Alfrey7 September 2011 at 07:51

    Hi Des,
    Definately good fun.
    Good to recapture that early excitement on the local patch again too.
    I am trying to 'do' the moths, butterflies and botany at Beddington before I move on to the anything else alive- so potentially and endless job :-)
    Nice1 Des
    Peter

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