Wilder Kent Experience: Moth Morning at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve

Area Wardens Rosemary and Rob love seeing what moths are flying around at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve! This is a wonderful opportunity for you to join them as they unload their traps in the morning and identify the species that have been caught the previous evening.

You’ll learn all about the various trapping methods used to capture moths and how you can trap at home. With field guides provided, you will work your way through the moth trap, practicing and developing your identification skills as you go. We hope to catch species such as buff tip, iron prominent, jersey tiger and poplar hawkmoths.

If you’re a keen photographer, this experience also provides an excellent opportunity to take photos of the moths.

Toilet facilities are available in the Visitor Centre. A hot drink will be provided, and the café will be open for you to make additional purchase should you wish.

Our reserves team are used to working outdoors in all weathers, so we aim to go ahead with these experiences wherever possible. On occasion the warden may decide conditions are extreme enough to cancel the planned date, either because they'll be unable to deliver the event to a high enough quality or because it is unsafe to go ahead. If this is the case you will be offered an alternative date or refund. Unfortunately, we cannot refund tickets if the event takes place but you choose not to attend.

Please give us 30 days notice wherever possible if you are no longer able to attend. The small group sizes on these experiences mean cancellations have a large impact on the viability of the event, and it can be difficult to fill places at short notice or after an event has initially reached capacity. Thank you.

Kent Wildlife Trust members have exclusive early access to tickets for this event, from Wednesday 4 until Tuesday 10 March. Members will receive a code by email to unlock tickets. Tickets will be available for general sale from Wednesday 11 March.

Photo credit: Rosemary Holden