When looking back at the highlights from each year, yes, there are plenty moths of note for the trap, be it mobile or in the garden. However, I am always struck by how many of my highlights are from methods other than the light trap: this includes pheromone lures, dusking, daytime searches, larvae, pupae and of course mines with a fair bit of rearing thrown in too.
So, hopefully these highlights will help to encourage those who haven’t done so already, to consider life ‘beyond the moth trap’…
Endothenia nigricostana (c) Dave Shenton
Emperor Moth (Saturnia povonia): to EMP lure, Pegwell Bay CP
Psyche casta, female: ex case
Micropterix tunbergella: daytime sweep netting
Kent Moth Group - this website now closed 