It was great to meet up with Liam and Christian from Glo i Natur CIC and Rose from Torfaen County Borough Council at Blaenserchan Local Nature Reserve (LNR) for a morning of Six-belted Clearwing pheromone deployment. I attended with confidence we would be successful in attracting this moth as I had found them at this site previously and their food-plant of Birds-foot Trefoil is now so widespread success was almost a certainty. And so it proved as moths were attracted to the lure when placed throughout the valley.
Other species recorded were Bee, Southern Marsh and Common Spotted Orchids, Tree Pipit, Broad-bodied and Four Spotted Chasers, Emperor Dragonfly, Common Ground-hopper, Bloody-nosed Beetle, Heather Weevil and some unusual invertebrates that only Christian could identify.
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