Today was a first - a moth morning hosted by a combination of the council, Friends of Portsdown and Cumberland House Museum at Fort Widley.
Two traps were placed the previous night, both actinic, one Robinson, one Skinner.
In total about a dozen people and enough moths to keep us busy for an hour and a half or more.
The best for me were two new moths - Gypsy Moth and Ruddy Carpet - plus Sallow Kitten and Rosy Rustic which were moths I've not trapped. Orange Swift, Yellow Shell, White Point and Yellow-barred Brindle were best-of-the-rest.
There were plenty of the harvestman Phalangium opilio in the traps.
