Feeding the Bats
I put the moth trap out last night and then went out and sat by it. It seemed more as though I was feeding the bats though as there were loads of them about, swooping down and flying under the pergola and then circling around the moth trap.
I didn’t get to see them close up but there were at least two species of bat, one small black one and a much larger browner coloured one.
Some of the moths must have got through though as the trap had the following in it:
- 2x Shoulder Stripe
- 1x Brindled Pug
- 1 x Buff Tip*
- 1x Fox Moth*
- 2x Garden Carpet
- 1x Purple Bar
- 1x Hebrew Character
- 2x Small Square-spot
- 3x Shuttle-shaped Dart
- 2x Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
- 1x Flame Shoulder
- 1x Rustic Shoulder Knot
- 1x Barred Carpet
- 1x Common Pug
- 1x Red Twin-spot Carpet
The Buff tip was in a pretty sorry state and did look as though it had at least been chewed a little bit by a bat!
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- Fox Moth
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- Common Pug
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- Red Twin-spot Carpet
