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Use of Pheromones for Clearwings

  Primary Lures Flight Dates Species Flight Time Food Plants
  API 2/6 - 2/7 Hornet 07:00 - 11:00 Black Poplar, Aspen, Lombard var
  Unknown 1/7 - 3/7 Lunar Hornet 15:00 - 17:00 Sallow, Williow
  TAB 4/5 - 2/7 Dusky Unknown Aspen, Poplar, Willow
  TIP 4/5 - 2/7 Current 11:00 - 13:00
15:00 - 16:00 		Currents
  VES 4/5 - 1/8 Yellow-legged 08:00 onwards Oak Stumps, Sweet Chestnut and Birch stumps
  TIP 2/5 - 3/6 White Banded 07:00 - 10:00 Alder, Birches
  SCO 1/7 - 4/7 Welsh 10:00 - 14:00 Downy Birch
  MYO & TIP 1/7 - 4/7 Sallow Unknown Sallow
  VES 2/5 - 4/6 Orange-tailed Unknown Wayfaring Tree, Guilder Rose
  MYO 3/6 - 4/6 Red-bealted 10:00 - 12:00 Apple, Hawthorn
  FOR or
MYO or
TIP		 4/5 - 4/7 Red-tipped 09:00 - 16:00 Willows.
Comes to flowers
  CUL or
MYO 		2/5 - 1/6 Red 11:00 - 13:00
Night Sweep 		Large Downy & Silver Birches
  API 4/6 - 2/8 Six-belted Evening Birdsfoot Trefoil, Kidney Vetch & Horseshow Vetch
  HYL ?/6 - ?/7 Thrift 10:30 - 11:30 Thrift
Place lure close to the ground
  MYO 4/6 - ?/7 Fiery Unknown Docks

Flight Dates are weeks/month
Allow ten minuets at least for a lure to pull from the area, often it works very quickly
Actual Kent Dates?
Fiery is fully protected so you are not allowed to look for it!

More complicated lure mixes:

Yellow-legged: VES + HYL, VES + TAB
Red-belted: MYO + API
Re-tipped: TIP + VES, MYO + TIP + VES
Fiery: MYO + TAB, MYO + API, MYO + TAB + API

This checklist is also available in PDF (Adobe) format. To save the checklist to your PC right click on the PDF icon, below, and choose the option "Save Target As"

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