The Bagsy Blog: Tigermoth

Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Tigermoth - Steve Hackett

A jaunty little lullaby to accompany you though our latest offering.

Tigermoth Link from Hackett's third album Spectral Mornings

It has been wall to wall Moths all over the weekend and it will be of little surprise to hear that most of it was shared with our friend

DAVE FOOT

Before his arrival there was a quick look for the pair of

LITTLE OWL

which are still both on station

and looking well.

At 23:45 on Friday there started one of the most furious Thunder Storms in recent years, which included torrential rain and at one point HAIL! Good job then that we had left the Rain Guards off of half of the traps

with the irony being that those 3 were 'dry as a bone' next morning while the others, which I have to admit as being MINE, required a Ballast Pump to recover the Insects. Despite the weather overall the Collective Haul was a huge success with with 540 Macros being taken at Merritown Heath of 109 Species, while PCF produced 344 Macros to 75 Species. As might be imagines there were 'hundreds' of photographs taken over our 2 day hunt, which are still needing some attention, so for now we will just bring you the most interesting ones which were all additions to the

Parley Court Farm Macro Moth List.

Dave spent the latter hours of Saturday and the first two of Sunday searching for Moth Larvae, so was up a little later than myself but meeting up at 05:30 there was something a little special awaiting him. I had done the rounds to turn off the traps and finding en-route 3 species clinging to the Horse Stable wall. The first to be seen was too high up to reach while the others were readily identified as Barred Straw and the Macro Small Magpie. The stool used to mount the horses (not by me I hasten to add) was utilised and the 'stranger' was captured and I even surprised myself by identifying it before Dave's arrival.