{"id":1678,"date":"2014-05-15T15:32:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2014-05-16T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T15:37:00","slug":"moth-trapping-buff-ermine-and-muslin-moth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"Moth trapping: Buff Ermine and Muslin Moth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The moth trap has not been very productive recently because of the poor weather. Last night was clear but low temperature and an almost full moon meant that I trapped only two species: buff ermine (a single male) and muslin moth (two males.).\u00a0Buff ermines mimic ermine moths, which taste unpleasant to birds. In this way, they reduce their chance of being eaten.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1679\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1679\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1679\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1679\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1679\" alt=\"buff ermine moth\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BUFFERMINE.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BUFFERMINE.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BUFFERMINE-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/BUFFERMINE-360x300.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">buff ermine moth<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1680\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?attachment_id=1680\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1680\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1680\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1680\" alt=\"muslin moth\" src=\"http:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MUSLINMOTH.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MUSLINMOTH.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MUSLINMOTH-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MUSLINMOTH-360x300.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">muslin moth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moth trap has not been very productive recently because of the poor weather. Last night was clear but low temperature and an almost full moon meant that I trapped only two species: buff ermine (a single male) and muslin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/?p=1678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[94,93,92,96,95,57],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wakefieldnaturalists.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}