Moths on the last moth night
Mid-summer moth nights - the moths start arriving just when the people start leaving to go home to bed!
We had an entertaining night - I hope - but there was little caught in the traps before about 11.00 pm. Malcolm spotted something escaping just after the last of you left to go home! - then I left the traps going all night - it was obviously going to be dry - and got the last train. Malcolm Bridge is a moth enthusiast and member of Butterfly Conservation who came along to help David entertain, educate and identify anything we caught. He brought some moths caught the night before in his garden further south of the river than Roots and Shoots. Between the two of us, slides of astonishing moths, cups of tea and a surprisingly challenging bats and moths game we got everyone through to about 11.00 pm. The next morning these are some of the moths I had in the trap in the Wildlife Garden - none particularly unusual but all with beautiful, delicate markings:
This first one is a "Heart and Club"
and this is a Pale Mottled Willow
This first one is a "Heart and Club"
and this is a Pale Mottled Willow