Back to trapping, and under quite breezy, cloudy and mild conditions, I managed my best garden catch so far this year with a total of 143 moths of 30 species! including some lovely new for gardens.
Pick of the bunch was a lovely fresh Brindled Green and a really tiny Pale Mottled Willow.
Chuffed!
Catch Report -09-09-12 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Brindled Green [NFG]
1x Chestnut [NFG]
2x Snout [NFG]2x Vine's Rustic
18x Lesser Yellow Underwing
4x Willow Beauty
4x Willow Beauty
3x Angle Shades
3x Brimstone
1x Pale Mottled Willow
15x Setaceous Hebrew Character
3x Silver-Y
2x Garden Carpet
2x Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
1x Copper Underwing
1x September Thorn
1x Riband Wave
1x Straw Dot
3x Green Carpet
1x Orange Swift
31x Square-spot Rustic
25x Large Yellow Underwing
4x Light Emerald31x Square-spot Rustic
25x Large Yellow Underwing
Micro Moths
1x Carnation Tortrix Cacoecimorpha pronubana [NFG]
1x Agriphila geniculea
1x Emmelina monodactyla
3x Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana
3x Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana
5x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla
2x Mother of Pearl Pleuroptya ruralis
2x Brown House-moth Hofmannophila pseudospretella
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| Brindled Green |
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| Chestnut |
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| Pale Mottled Willow |
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| Carnation Tortrix Cacoecimorpha pronubana |