Catch Report - Friday 10th April 2009

Well after setting up my trap, I went to turn my bulb on and ....o dear..nothing just a dim glow coming from the MBT bulb Argh so I set up my dangling 40w Actinic over the catchbox and waited in anticipation as to what might turn up!
I didn't have to wait long as a Moth blundered about, the colouration was of nothing i'd seen in Spring before, so it was QUICK with the pot and to my surprise a pristine Dotted Chestnut sat still for abit then went mad, in the fridge he went to settle down for his photoshoot!

Abit of research suggests the Dotted Chestnut has not been recorded in Essex for a few years now, so I was over the moon. More associated with Woodland I'd never expect one turning up to the garden trap!

Equally interesting were another 3 new for year's.

Something is telling me to stick with the Actinic for abit now :)

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1x Hebrew Character
1x Dotted Chestnut [NFG]
5x Common Quaker
6x Early Grey
1x Small Quaker
4x Early Thorn
3x Diurnea fagella
1x Twin-spotted Quaker
1x A.acanthadactyla
3x Emmelina monodactyla
1x Twenty Plume Moth [NFY]
1x Brimstone Moth [NFY]
1x Brown House Moth [NFY]
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