France 2022

I took the moth trap on this year's family holiday to the South of France. We stayed on the Mediterranean coast near the Spanish border, but to be honest, the campsite wasn't particularly good for wildlife compared to previous campsites.

The site itself was very built up, and the surrounding area, although looking promising on Google maps, was a bit light in diversity. I did see the following highlights...

Turkish Gecko

Lang's short tailed blue

Coypu

Red-rumped Swallow

Southern Wartbiter

The moth trap included:

Praying Mantis

Bright Wave

Portland Ribbon Wave

Blair's Mocha

Vestal (central France)

Oak Processionary

Small Marbled

Scarce bordered Straw

Tree lichen Beauty

Marbled Green

Pearly Underwing

Turnip

Long legged Tabby

Delightful Marbled

Handmaid

idaea cervantaria

achyra nudalis

parascotia nisseni

stemmatophora brunnealis

oncocera semirubella (Central France)

acrobasis tumidana

Which looking back, wasn't a bad tally of moths, was expecting huge numbers for some reason, which just didn't materialise. Definitely worth sneaking the moth trap out with the camping gear again though.

The return sea crossing had a couple of Storm petrels, Arctic Skua, and Great Skua.