{"id":1961,"date":"2016-06-12T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hosting.schoolsays.co.uk\/~strettonhandley\/wildlife\/?p=1961"},"modified":"2016-06-14T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T11:23:55","slug":"moth-night-june-9th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strettonhandley.derbyshire.sch.uk\/wildlife\/moth-night-june-9th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Moth Night June 9th 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year\u2019s annual celebration of moth recording in the UK, Moth Night, took place over three nights (9th-11th June). We put a moth trap out in the school\u2019s Learning Garden for the Thursday night (9th June) and Year 3 children emptied the trap the following morning. The evening and night had been quite warm (minimum temperature 15\u00baC) so we\u00a0were rewarded with\u00a0a good catch; forty-five moths were trapped and\u00a0twenty-one different\u00a0species identified.\u00a0The children entered the results on the Moth Night web site (http:\/\/www.mothnight.info).<\/p>\n

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Entering data on the Moth Night website<\/p><\/div>\n

Small Clouded Brindle 1<\/strong>, Pale Tussock 3, Diamond-back Moth 10, Brown Silver-line 1<\/strong>, Small Phoenix 1, Silver-ground Carpet 1, Silver Y 1, Grass Rivulet 1<\/strong>, Small Square-spot 1, Flame 1<\/strong>, Common Carpet 2, White Ermine 2, Ingrailed Clay 2, Water Carpet 1, Middle-barred Minor 3<\/strong>, Beautiful Golden Y 1, Bee Moth 3, Common Pug 1, Green Carpet 3, Common Swift 5 and\u00a0Meadow Grey 1<\/strong>.\u00a0We also caught 2 big\u00a0Black Sexton Beetles.<\/p>\n\n\t\t