Wednesday 23 October 2019

Moth Report May 1st – July 31st 2019


LLNR Moth Report May 1st – July 31st 2019 - Gordon Redford

Emperor Moth

At Linford Lakes, a Robinson moth trap has been in use since 2017 to capture and record the numbers and different moth species present on the Nature Reserve - all the moths caught are released unharmed. In 2018, the trap was only used for the latter part of the season. 
The table below of monthly records for May, June and July in 2017 and 2019 shows that both numbers of species and total numbers of moths in 2019 to be considerably lower.

May
June
July
Totals
Year
No of Species 
Total Moths
No of Species
Total Moths
No of Species
Total Moths
No of Species
Total Moths
2019 
82
898
170
2824
196
3545
448
7267
2017
99
1597
194
4642
200
4339
493
10,578

However, despite the lower numbers of 2019, 20 moths previously unrecorded at LLNR (9 Macro and 11 Micro)  have been added to the Linford Lakes list.

Reported by Gordon Redford in The Magpie, October 2019, newsletter of MK Natural History Society.

Photo courtesy of Tony Bedford

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