It was lovely to get going with events again this year and we started at Llandinam Gravels. Not a site that I had been able to find before (!) but fortunately a number of brave souls found us at the end of a long muddy track. It is an interesting site as there is the river Severn along one side, with a field planted with young trees and then older woodland running behind us, so it was possible to put the traps in varied locations, and there was even a handy pheasant cage to set the white sheet up on.
Phil managed to catch a moth just as we were setting up. A lovely little Adela reaumurella, which was a good start.
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| Adela reaumurella |
Peter Williams arrived just as the moths were coming in from the traps, and as ever treated us to some master classes in the differences between Lunar Marbled Brown and Marbled Brown (time of year), the Quakers, the Pugs and the Thorns. We were fortunate enough to have a good variety so it was possible to compare directly.
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| White-Spotted Pinion |
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| Purple Thorn |
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| Pale Prominent |
The moths slowed down by about 11:30pm, and it felt quite chilly, so we potted up the stragglers and packed up. The mystery micro which turned up at the end of the night was later identified as Dyseriocrania subpurpurella.
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| Dyseriocrania subpurpurella |
A total of 3 micros and 27 macros were recorded. The full list is available here. Thanks to the Dunn family for most of the above photos. It was really good to see some new faces at the event, and hopefully we will see them again! Many thanks to Peter as well for braving the cold. Don't forget our next event is at Gregynog on Saturday 21 May, and it's in memory of Douglas Boyes, so do come along to support us.
Thanks for the report Julie - yes a good turn out for the first event of the year. Thanks to everyone in the 'events team' for getting so many traps up and running. I look forwards to the next event.
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