3 mild nights in a row with little wind have produced an amazing abundance of winter Moths in the local Woods, I had 3 / 4 winter moths round the house earlier last week so on my way out on Sat night I grabbed the head torch just in case..As I entered the woods a moth flew past me and then another soon after,, within 10 paces I had seen 11. .Every tree was covered in Winter Moths most around the base and up to 6 feet but on some they went so far up I could not count them. I went round at least 150 trees a mix of 50% Beech, 40% Oak and 5 % Sycamore and 5% other(including Elm, Nettle, rosebay willowherb, Bramble, Elderberry ,Hawthorn and various grasses) every single tree/bushwinter moths on it , I estimated about 10,000 moths .They were erupting from the ground as I walked through the leaf litter and seemed to be
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