Lampronia fuscatella
Gravitarmata margarotana
Perittia obscurepunctella
Black-spotted Chestnut
Cydia pactolanaAs can be seen from the first picture, they both fit onto a cross-member on top of the suitcase heath trap kindly lent to me from the Boxmoor trust.
The light output is fantastic, and the first night I used it in woodland it outperformed the MV 3-1 moth ratio.
Tonight they are both laying across the funnel of my Robinson collar, in a vain hope of attracting something different and probably diptera related knowing my luck!
An hour to go until full dark, fingers crossed and pots at the ready in the morning.
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Hi Benny, do you rate this actinic set-up? I used to run a single bulb actinic a few years ago but it always a poor performer compared to the MV. However, if the 125W MV bulbs become extinct, would this be a credible alternative?
ReplyDeleteHi Steve, I have run numerous Actinic setups since I started mothing in 2006 and I rate this setup the best so far. Of course because of its high wattage it would not be ideal running it from a battery (which most Actinics are designed to do), but it did out-perform an MV in the field and it gives another lught source for moths to be attracted to. In fact my third trap is a blended 160w Robinson style trap, that again attracts different moths at times.
ReplyDeleteI very much doubt MV's will become obsolete, but will only get more expensive as the need decreases for them commercially.
Give Paul Batty an email, search paul batty mv, he sells lots of different setups.
All the best.
Ben