Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Catch Report - 26/03/12 - Farmland/Back Garden - Hertfordshire

Warm sunny cloudless days, followed by cold and clear nights with ground frosts for the last 3 mornings, yesterday morning I was scraping ice from the car! this morning, slightly milder at around 4c.
Not much variety on the moth front, with only another Lead-coloured Drab to get excited about bringing my garden total to 10 this year.


Catch Report - 26/03/12 - 125w MV Robinson Trap - Back Garden/Farmland


Macro Moths

12x Twin-spotted Quaker
1x Lead-coloured Drab
75x Small Quaker
26x Common Quaker
46x Hebrew Character
45x Clouded Drab
1x March Moth
1x Oak Beauty
2x Satellite
3x Red Chestnut


Micro Moths

None recorded!


Left: Clouded Drab Right: Lead-coloured Drab










Red Chestnuts
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3 comments:

  1. Trent Duval27 March 2012 at 11:13

    Ben, I still struggle with Clouded and Lead-coloured.
    Apart from the obvious male antennae, what are the best field marks ?
    Cheers

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  2. Bennyboymothman28 March 2012 at 00:13

    Ermm
    Rounded wing-tips
    3 or 4 Black dots on the wing (not always present)
    and a gingery colouration just above the kidney mark.
    I always thought they were smaller, but this pic proves that wrong!
    no probs.

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  3. Trent Duval29 March 2012 at 13:58

    Cheers Ben,
    Plenty of Cloudeds in the garden.
    I actually had a good look at one last night in Matts trap.
    None so far at The Dells

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