This hobby is surging in popularity,and I can see why – it’s easy, relatively cheap, and is a window into a world of beautiful,abundant creaturesIt is encouraging to read reports of a growth of interest in moth-trapping in the UK. The practice may sound like the final resort for nerds but it has given me unflagging pleasure for 10 years, since an huge box on my birthday brought an inspired present from my wife.
It was a Robinson mercury vapour lamp, and the Rolls-Royce of moth traps. She knew that I had yearned as a boy for one to accompany my butterfly net and pieces of cotton wool soused in some diluted variant of chloroform. Those were Enid Blyton days when a 12-year-old could visit the chemist to buy small bottles made up of what you and the pharmacist both knew as “killing fluid”.
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Source: theguardian.com