Moth trapping - Besthorpe GP September 2nd 2024
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- An entertaining session from my first visit to this Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust reserve in the Trent Valley, with unprecedented numbers of Brimstones being the real highlight, despite trapping a county first in Dotted Fan-foot.
Thanks Trevor, excellent session. As always very enjoyable and well presented.
That's very kind of you to say Barry, thank you.
How wonderful to see! Thank-you for sharing your lovely world & knowledge.
You're welcome Steve.
Like holidaymakers flocking to a summer beach :)
That Bordered Beauty is just beautiful. Never seen one before. It's the epitome of Art Deco.
It really is a beauty isn't it?
What a great trapping session Trevor, I can see you returning to this place many times, I just love the way you present your video`s long may they continue, best wishes, Terry
Thank you Terry. And yes, I'll be back 😀
Super to see such numbers. There is hope for nature yet. Glad your efforts were so well rewarded.
Thanks Anthony. Yes, there's been signs of a number of species starting to increase again of late, and not just moths.
Fabulous session
It wasn't bad was it? 🙂
Never seen so many Brimmo's, I thought my 4 or 5 was a good showing! Excellent Bordered Beauty too, one that still eludes me.
I've not known anything like it either. Quite incredible really and I can assure you, that your first Bordered Beauty will be worth it. It's a beauty.
Some Wonderful moths there Trevor ,always think Brimstones are pretty and Bloodvein is wonderful as is the Burnished Brass Great nights Moth trapping xxxShaz 😊🦋🐛🦋🐛🕊
Thank you Shaz :-D
@@theramblingentomologist Too lazy for emojis hehe ,😅🤣😂 It would be wonderful for a video on Stag beetles ,if you reared some would it be wrong to put them in Sherwood Forest ..🤗🤫🥰
I'd love to see a Stag Beetle Shaz and it's one of the species I'll have to travel to see and I do have plans to, but one for next year. None available to rear unfortunately (not the UK one anyway) but yes, it would be wrong to chuck em in Sherwood and they wouldn't appreciate having them there anyway. You're going to tell me you trip over them in your garden now, aren't you? 😂😂
@@theramblingentomologist Hi Trevor well maybe you will see some living in my Dolls Houses on my you tube channel all tucked up for Winter in a four poster bed or the cot in the nursery....Sceptic peg I need advice is that the best place for them Lol xxxShaz 😅🤣😂Maybe we should start looking for them in our Oak wood next to our Allotment ..will let you know xxShaz I think they fly are they attracted to moth trap light ? ☺🤔
brilliant video as always trevor. I had a brown-spot pinion in 19th August which I though was very early! love the bordered beauty too
Yes, I watched that video last night Maxwell and noticed you had one too.
on another note, someone I know nearby has just had a convolvulus hawk in the trap this morning so I'm on my way up to see it now!
We've had a few here in Notts too, so there's a good chance of one turning up anytime.
Great call on the location. The Bordered Beauty is most certainly a beauty
Many were seen- fascinating 😮💯👌🙌
Lots of lovely Brimstones lots of craneflies also
A video that would be nice to see would be one about the logistics of how you actually trap - your setup and equipment, how you transport it, and how you clear the sheet at the end!
I don't actually know what more I could do to give people an idea of how I trap to be honest Stanley and I've actually included details about the set up I use, in a couple of previous trapping videos, but will do another one soon.
Transportation to site is just putting the generator, sheet and light in the boot of the car, which makes me breathless having Emphysema and isn't a good look on video 🙂 and at the end of the session, the sheet is just shaken over long grass in darkness, so the moths can safely fly off at their leisure. But I'll see what I can do.
Almost certainly teaching you to suck eggs, but have you read that paper in nature, I think it was early this year, where they think they have sufficient evidence to propose the mechanism of how flying insects are drawn to light. Worth it, on the off chance you haven’t. It’s an open access article in nature communications, 15, Article number: 689 (2024).
I'll have to have a look at that.
@@theramblingentomologist If their hypothesis is valid, a practical application could be a revised moth trap design, although doesn’t solve your hornet problem. What I found interesting was that identical behaviours were seen in both nocturnal and diurnal species when tested with artificial light. Although you probably knew this from your hornet experiences! I don’t recall trapping a single wasp or hornet, perhaps the wavelengths of modern light are different from the traps I used 50 years ago.