Before we started Derek read a prayer
Red Underwing
Orange Swift
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
Before we started Derek read a prayer
Red Underwing
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Marvelous! I especially love the moth hunting hound in the first photo.
Red Underwing is a corker! Haven't seen one for ages, but then I haven't been mothing for ages!
An Old Lady almost got eaten by the hound!
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
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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