Loving this thread! Makes me want to order a moth trap, though I think my other half will be less than impressed if I splurge more than 200 quid on a good one..
You can get good results just by using a £10 UV bulb and a white sheet. All my best moths just land on the rendered wall of my house by the trap. The trap is useful if you don't want to stay up moth watching and it picks up the very late flyers that even night owls like me can't stay awake for.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Mine is a bucket with a lid, with a hole cut in the top for a kitchen funnel, then a lampshade holder/fitting for the UV bulb that sits on top, about £40 in total to make
In August last year I posted that I'd found this caterpillar. I'd moved some old pots and ripped its web cocoon apart where it was stuck between two of them, probably not long after it had made it. They're normally very hairy caterpillars so I suppose the fact it was bald shows it was already starting to metamorphise. I set it up with somewhere to make a new cocoon in a bug box and left it in the shady corner of the greenhouse hoping it still had the energy to make it to mothhood. I've been checking the box every evening for a month or so now and finally it pupated into a brand new Sycamore Moth
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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