stephenroughle3.bsky.social
Coding chemist, Scouser, amateur cornet/trumpet player, @CSDBrass, moths, uses same handle on xwitter. For stuff about KNIME see @DrKnimeNode http://mastodon.world/@SawstonMoth
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Whereabouts is "the Geoff hedge"?
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Definitely a night owl, but moth trapping has shown me that early mornings aren't quite as bad an idea as I thought they were, even if somewhere deep inside of still rather approach them from the other end (ie still being awake when they arrive and *then* crashing out!)
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Did you find that mute button? There's this guy who's heading fast up the list of people needing muted... 😆🥹🙈
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The disconnect tween UK public love of nature & Tory/Lab/Reform policies is bizarre.
All our "national parks" get truly derisory £60m annual budget.
One new car Thames crossing £9BILLION funding. 🙈🙈😪
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Dunno, but if you find it... There are a few candidates... 😆
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I'm guessing now isn't the time to post the photos of the caterpillars from my garden last year...?
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In addition to the moths, there was also a male Broad Centurion (Chloromyia formosa) and a female Sphaerophoria sp. hoverfly - both a bit bigger than the 3.5 - 4 mm of B. nigricomela! All photos straight from the Olympus TG-6 with no editing - great little camera!
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I half-hoped I might find one in the woods at Brands Hatch yesterday while the boy was watching cars. Still evades me... Very few records here in VC29
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It's finally cloudy here after seemingly months of clear skies, but. Yep.... The dreaded North (easterly!) wind doth blow... Again... Been a recurring problem for the last 3 years from about march onwards
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Decided I wasn't going to bother because it's even colder than last night, and last night didn't make double figures.... Then I lit up anyway... 🤷
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Leadeth me not into tempta.. ah, too late! Looking forward to reading it when it arrives!
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Does have a bit of the tenebrosana feel about it... 🍴⚔️🔪✂️🔬
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To be honest, I don't remember (it's whatever a well known large online retailer that sounds like a South American river sent me at the time) - probably best if it is though
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And amongs the hundreds of flying ants, also this Cinnabar moth, which posed obligingly, and Cochylichroa atricapitana
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I use a threaded rod with a nyloc but below the rain guard followed by a penny or repair washer, a tap washer (they're nice and thick and squishy!) then the perspex filled by another tap washer, another penny washer and finally a wing nut for ease of undoing
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Filicovora still evading me. Very few records in Cambs. I was the person who found verhuella new for county a few years back, and breeding at multiple sites the following year though...
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I always used to think it was "All the King's hire" when I was a kid. Remember walking round the house singing it as such, and eventually asking my mum what "the King's hire" actually was... It took a while for her to work out what I was talking about 😆
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Never noticed the eyes before! I had my first for the year last week too - need to do some catch-up posts
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Ok, you can stop now... 😆
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I certainly would never send a record in of something I'd seen over someone's shoulder unless I was 110% certain they weren't going to record it
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Yes - lepiforum.org/wiki/taxonom... - solid black is suspectana, albuginana is pale towards the wrong base, black towards the edges
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"Quick" check of the hindwings should do it. If only they were a bit better at stopping moving wings-open!
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Obsidentify seems to think they're *all* albuginana at the moment, and suspectana not even on the list when it's down to 98% certainty
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Trying to place where this is - I assume next to the punt ramp down from the higher level there goes out to Grantchester?
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Totally forgot about this today. Suppose it does mean the garden got some attention...
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Happy birthday!
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100+ Common Quaker I think is nearer my annual catch. Will have to crunch some numbers later
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That's quite a pint. I'm sure I read that a beer with Parrot in the name, brewed in Sheffield at about 14.5% was the strongest beer, but that was probably 30 years ago
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The more I read up on the the worse my understanding gets 🤔
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One in South Wales somewhere last night I think I saw on @migrantmothuk.bsky.social earlier
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I remember the first time I saw one of these on Mull - went on a walk up a valley with two quite small kids at the time and kept looking up at birds of prey in the sky and thinking "is that...?" - then we say one... no questions. It went dark for a few minutes as it flew over...
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Had one about a week ago which was my earliest by 5 days, but have had them right through to mid-April
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I can strongly advise against breaking your foot... #boot #crutches #pain