I'm down to one trap now which will continue henceforth.
My garden is a tad too small to support two traps and it takes so much time to log it all.
Not only that, looking at past records has convinced me that there is no gain species-wise, but the numbers of common species goes up and it gives me no pleasure to record an extra 30 Large Yellow Underwings or Hebrew Characters.
This year has been poor with many expected species missing from the year list but last night produced a third record of Frosted Orange for the garden....
0015 Orange Swift
0647 Hofmannophila pseudospretella
0658 Carcina quercana (Below)
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| 0658 Carcina quercana, sprucing up an antenna with its foreleg |
0874 Blastobasis lacticolella
0998 Epiphyas postvittana x 2
1048 Acleris variegana
1309 Agriphila geniculea
1348 Parapoynx stratiotata (Below)
1524 Emmelina monodactyla
1728 Garden Carpet x 2
1776 Green Carpet
1906 Brimstone Moth
1937 Willow Beauty x 3
2087 Turnip Moth x 2, (Below)
2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart x 3
2107 Large Yellow Underwing x 27
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing x 3
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character x 18
2134 Square-spot Rustic x 16
2306 Angle Shades
2353 Flounced Rustic x 11
2364 Frosted Orange *year first
2384 Vine's Rustic x 12
2389 Pale Mottled Willow x 6
2441 Silver Y
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