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Wed 27th August 2008 20:12 by Ian Mathieson
What a difference the siting of the trap has made recently. My garden is quite long and narrow and twice in the last week I have trapped at one end whilst on another occasion I trapped about 40 yards nearer the house. The weather was reasonably similar on all three occasions and whilst I had 93 macros with 26 different species on the night it was nearest the house I had 756 and 868 macros with a similar number of species on the other two nights. This included catches of 268 and 278 Flame Shoulders and over 240 Setacious Hebrew Characters in total. These are the largest totals I have ever caught and are no doubt attracted by the huge amount of honeydew being secreted there by blackflys. The downside of the large numbers of moths was that they were joined by over 200 wasps on both occasions. Last night,inspired by the picture of the Butterbur, I placed my trap in a stand of the foodplant that I have had my eye on for a few years a mile or so away from my house. Although I caught a few moths that are less usual in my garden I obviously didn't catch a Butterbur but it was interesting to see just 1 Flame Shoulder and not a single Setacious Hebrew Character nor a single wasp in the trap.
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