Clouded Drab moth
Early Grey moth
Common Quaker moth
Hebrew Character moth
Wolverhampton SJ90
12/5 A slightly better showing for the garden traps last night. Early Grey, Hebrew Character, LBAM, Common Quaker and Clouded Drab.
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Wolverhampton SJ90
3/1 Given the minimum temperature was only around 7C I was hoping for something more than 3 Common Quakers. It was a little breezy but still.
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Common Quaker moth
Hebrew Character moth
Juniper Shield Bug
Wolverhampton SJ90
3/2 At least not an empty trap, but I thought a few more might have given themselves up.
Two Common Quakers and a Hebrew Character.
A wee jewel-like Juniper Shield Bug might be nfg but I need to check.
Good luck 😉
Thanks Clare! 😁
Cheers Dave. It was feeling positively balmy here today so…😁
Cheers Steve! There’s been a lot of CBA going around this year. Still, onwards, upwards and sideways 😁
Finally, after a few months of serious can’t-be-arsednessness and soggy weather, both traps are out.
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Must be close to spring then…
Back on the Gambody Stingray. It’s a trial filling, priming and sanding ad infinitum 🙄 Bondo and elbow grease has helped eliminate the filament lines, but struggling to sand out all the wibbly ripples to get a smooth hull. I’m sure it will be worth the hours spent 😉
#3Dprinting #gerryanderson
Definitely not…😏😁😂
Uhm, I should maybe but my brain’s needed elsewhere atm 😁
Darn it! Another one just snuck its way into the house. This is how it starts isn’t it…?? 🤭
Lit up last night but absolutely nowt in the trap 🙁 Did spot my first snowdrop though 😁
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A tad brisk in the garden…🥶
And garden cat Tink is out in it 🙄
Ooh, that’s a shelf and a half! 😜😁
Cheers Kev! A very nice dram too 😉
Very nice too! 😋 Hope you have a fabulous 2026!
Here’s wishing you all the very best for the New Year from a slightly
worse for wear moth-er/painter 😁🥃
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I’ve had enough airbrushing in winter, dangling my exhaust through an open window…🥶 With a 3D print, a bucket, 4 HEPA/charcoal filters and polyester floof I’ve made an exit air filter. It’s meant to contain water rather than floof, but I suspect I’d just end up cultivating Legionnaires’ 🦠😳
I’m proper chuffed with it Ruth. Here’s to a cracking Christmas and New Year for you and yours!
Cheers Steve. All the best to you and yours for Christmas.
Cheers Clive, I was well chuffed! 😊
A wizened hand grasps tightly a glass of precious port in front of what appears to be a small nuclear reaction…😏
Isophrictis striatella - the Tansy Stem Borer
Merry Christmas all! The traps are away for the year (probably…) and lo, great jollity has broken out! 😁
This year’s highlight from my Wolverhampton garden was Isophrictis striatella (Tansy Stem Borer), a 2nd record for Staffordshire, the 1st being from Highgate Common, Kinver in 2011.
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I’ve just been offered a bunch of historic publications about the Lepidoptera of Staffs, I’m not sure I have room to give a home to all of them but I wondered if any VC39 #teammoth were interested in taking some? @sj84turner.bsky.social @lesevanshill.bsky.social @dominiccollins.bsky.social
Thanks, I’ll happily take that 😁😉
I thought this was bizarre in Sainsbury’s. Bottles of Jack Daniels are kept behind security screens while far more expensive and desirable single malts are all spread available and akimbo on the shelves…🤔
A tin of Marks and Spencer Smoked Pineapple Daiquiri. Tastes like Dettol disinfectant!
Looked intriguing so I tried it so you don’t have to.
Here are my extensive tasting notes:
“Dettol, only not as nice😳😬🤮”
URGENT Attention all macrophotographers!
Does anyone have an image of the sexual form of Andricus quercuscalicis - ideally laying on an English oak bud!!!!
Mottled Umber moth
Winter Moth
Wolverhampton SJ90
2/2. Singles of a smart Mottled Umber and Winter Moth. Looking back I’ve only ever had 3 Mottled Umbers including this one and just 4 Winter Moths, 1 a year since 2022.
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