A matter of light and death

It's been a rather nice weekend. Have done lots of jobs round the house and garden, have cooked some nice food and even managed a few beetles. Pretty much a perfect combination 😁

The overnight temperatures were running at about 14-15 degrees so I decided to pop on the MV trap on Friday and the Actinic on Saturday. Moth numbers were reasonable and included a rather fresh Eyed Hawkmoth which is not annual in the garden, but it was the beetles which stole the show. An increasingly common occurrence.

It's funny that I now sit and go through the trap first thing and my favourite bit is looking through all the detritus at the bottom for the tiny beetles that just might be there.