MBT..............OMG! :0)

They say a picture says a thousand words but even these photos don't express my astonishment and sheer joy at just how well the new MBT lamp performed.....put it this way...within 10 minutes I had a Dark Arches on my foot and a Poplar Hawk on my arm, the trap was constantly being 'buzzed' by 3 or 4 moths at a time and from my vantage point(sat in a cumfy garden chair 15 feet away!) I watched moth after moth fall into the trap. I put a sheet out under the trap which also had a regular supply of moths landing on it that could be easily 'encouraged' into the trap and the amount of species I didn't recognize was mind boggling(I didn't manage to get photos of everything but I got quite a few).

I put the new lamp on the 'Skinner' trap and it was out from 9:50pm till 3:30am.

Tonights log

2 Poplar Hawk

5 Dark Arches

3 Lesser Yellow Under-Wing

7 Orange Underwing

4 Mother Of Pearl

3 Silver-Y

4 Riband Wave

2 Phlyctaenia Coronata

5 Marbled Beauty

1 Smoky Wainscot

2 Dot Moth

1 Magpie

1 Brimstone

5 Early Thorn

2 Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing(see photo above)
1 Poplar Grey

1 Dun-Bar(see photo above)

3 Shuttle-Shaped Dart(see photo above)

1 Pebble Prominent(see photo above)

3 Heart & Dart(see photo above)

1 Cabbage Moth(see photo above)

1 Campion(see photo above)

17 Uncertain

37 assorted micro moths

112 moths!, what a wonderful night!

I would like to thank Ben at Essex Moths blog for recommending the MBT lamp and supplier http://bensale-essexmoths.blogspot.com/ (I hope you realise Ben you're just making things more difficult for yourself now I'm getting even more moths for you to identify! :0)

And I would like to thank Paul Batty for all his help and advice and for supplying the lamp quickly and cheaply(£31.90 inc P&P) http://www.pwbelg.clara.net/mercury/mbt/index.html