Trust that you are all well, fully recovered from the festivities & looking forward to an exciting & successful mothing 2015.

1. For your info: over the Winter the branch has bought another 2 6W WatDon bucket traps & associated equipment to act as starter kits. Main intention is to lend them out as kickstarters to people who are interested in mothing but unsure that they will like it enough to buy their own traps. However, they will also hopefully be available for other uses too.
Similarly, we have restored to working condition 2 AngLeps 15W Heath traps.
If you have something that you might like to borrow 1/some for please get in touch.
2. Spurred on by Ron I'm also playing around with some DIY attempts at building traps & as suggested in 1 or 2 threads I think that I will ask Scott Shanks if he can set up a part of the forum specifically for discussing equipment. If he can I shall then move all the related threads there assuming that that is what the majority want.
P.S. we hope to be arranging a Mid-summer Moth Madness/Mania/Mayhem etc. etc. night on Inchcailloch in Loch Lomond. I've been lucky enough to trap there with the National Park Rangers a couple of times - usually we have had 4-5 traps out but there are so many different habitats that we would love to get 10+ to cover more. Again, if you think that you may be interested please get in touch.