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Mothing in the New Forest
FINAL UPDATE: Back home, checked through the records. 12 species I’d not seen before, at least two of which are usually confined to the South coast and hinterland. Lesser Swallow Prominent The list of moths I’d not photographed before our New Forest 2022 trip is as follows: August Thorn, Black Arches, Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix, Cydia amplana,  Hedge Rustic, Lesser Swallow Prominent, Lesser Treble Bar, Light Crimson Underwing, Plain Wave, Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet, Rosy Footman, Six-striped Rustic. August Thorn Records now dispatched to Hampshire County Moth Recorder, Mike Wall. UPDATE: Seventh Night: A ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 20, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs

Mothing the New Forest
First night off-site with the LepiLED and a portable Robinson-type moth trap was in North Poulner in the New Forest. We ate fairly late but there were Pipistrelle bats circling the trees in the garden overlooking the valley long before dusk feel. Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix I lit up with the trap right under an oak tree, I had high hopes. Numbers weren’t huge, but there were a couple of species I had not seen before – Six-striped Rustic (Xestia sexstrigata, one of the many noctuid, or owlet moths) and Chequered Fruit-tree Tortrix (Pandemis corylana). The latter is also known as the Hazel Tortrix Moth, the Filb...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 20, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs

My new moths of 2022
UPDATE: 2 Sep 2022 We (I) took the LepiLED with a portable trap to the New Forest in August and added 12 or so moths to the list, when we returned from our trip, first night lighting up we saw a Convolvulus Hawk-moth turn up to nectar on the Nicotiana (garden tobacco plants) before diving into the home garden moth trap. Another turned up later that evening and another on night of 1st September. One of 2 or 3 seen in the garden this year for the first time – Convolvulus Hawk-moth It was four years in July 2022 that I had been mothing in our back garden with a 40W actinic/UV trap. In that time I’ve photographed w...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs

The new moths of 2022
It was four years in July 2022 that I had been mothing in our back garden with a 40W actinic/UV trap. In that time I’ve photographed well over 400 species of macro and micro moth. I keep logs for the County Moth Recorder, so it’s not only a photographic venture it’s citizen science too. The Blackneck at Devil’s Dyke, Cambs By 2020/2021 I felt like I had probably seen most of the species of moth that are in this area, but there are always surprises that turn up and in those years there were 31 and 37 species that turned up that I hadn’t seen before. It’s the middle of August and so far in...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 11, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs

Cambridge Folk Festival 2022
The annual Cambridge Folk Festival was on hiatus thanks to the pandemic and so a lot of people had missed out on their musical fix at Cherry Hinton Hall for three years…us? Full Fest wrist band Mrs Sciencebase and myself had not been back since 1991 having attended three years on the trot from 1989 when I first went up to Cambridge (working, not as a student, haha). Mrs Sciencebase wasn’t Mrs at the time, and Sciencebase itself was still a few years away yet. Suzanne Vega had hardly changed in 31 years We were excited to see all the new bands and performers and checked the lineup: Clannad and Suzanne Vega among...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 1, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Photography Source Type: blogs