National Moth Night!

Twas NMN last night. We had our trap (above) up and running (as we do every night) in the hope that we could capture some target species. Well, kinda slow last night. As The Moth Man and J-Rock opened the trap the best moths turned out to be the Vapourer (below) and the Canary-shouldered Thorn (above). So in mothing land not a very good (aka slow) night.

In observance of this night we also went out and 'glooped' some trees. Gloop is a sweet sticky substance you paint on trees. The recipe is pretty simple - rotten bananas, beer, treacle - and let the whole mixture fester for a few weeks. Certain moths love it but none were going for it last night save for the odd Crane Fly and Earwig. We found a few moths just flying around which were quickly caught by J-Rock using the Frannie Move. What's the Frannie Move? It's where you see a moth flying around, no net is at hand, you quickly grab the moth out of thin air, identify it, then let it go. Very handy if you are in the pub, down the town or in the car!