Woodpecker Class and Year 3 helped to empty the moth trap a couple of times during the Summer Term. They each chose a moth and did some great observational drawings. Year 3s uploaded some of their moth photographs to our ispot account to help identify their moths.

Trap set 16th June, 2014 (by the bird hide)

Total 8 species: 5 Buff Ermine, 6 Heart and Dart, 1 Blood-vein, 2 Silver-ground Carpet,  2 Mottled Beauty, 2 White Ermine, 1 Ingrailed Clay. A female Lime Hawk-moth was found on the playground after the trap was emptied on the 17th.

Trap set 20th July, 2014 (by bird hide)

Before emptying the moth trap, the children released a Peacock butterfly which they had found as a caterpillar and then successfully reared in the classroom.

Total 22 species: 4 Riband Wave, 8 Large Yellow Underwing, 1 Marbled Beauty, 4 Common Footman, 5 Dingy Footman, 1 Yellow-tail, 1 Common White Wave, 1 Snout, 3 Small Fan-footed Wave, 2 Heart and Dart, 2 Bright-line Brown-eye, 2 Lesser Yellow Underwing, 3 Scalloped Oak, 1 Dusky Pearl, 4 Uncertain/Rustic agg., 2 Common Rustic agg., 1 Smoky Wainscot, 2 Dark Arches, 1 Ingrailed Clay, 2 Early Thorn, 1 Coxcomb Prominent, Poplar Hawkmoth.