The warm, humid conditions that we experienced yesterday prompted Jenny to put the moth trap out last night (not that she needs an excuse).
We checked it's contents this morning to find that she'd had a good catch, with personal highlights being numerous garden tiger and drinker moths.
The drinker is certainly a species associated with reedbeds, as it's larval foodplant can be common reed and we had at least two other reedbed specific species in Jenny's haul. These were southern wainscot and silky wainscot. The latter species is particularly interesting in that it's larvae are partially carnivorous, feeding on insects and the pupae of other wainscot moths.
The image below shows Jenny in her natural habitat, along with volunteer Jim Parsons.
You can see images of some of the other moths that Jenny caught in our photo section.