Last night I ran
the trap after a warm and breezy day with highs of 18 degrees, the night was
expected to hold up at around 13 degrees minimum, in fact it went one degree
better than that and today we have hit 20 degrees which is just lovely for the weekend.
The Humming-bird
Hawk-moth continues to visit our Buddleia bush most nights here at around
5.30pm, in fact it has been so regular it's been turning up 10 out of the last
15 evenings including during the day-time today and occasionally early morning
at 6.30am which i've never experienced before.
Onto the catch
last night and it was pretty much breath-taking with 31 species by the morning.
11 Dusky Thorns
was just silly, the most i've ever recorded in one trap with my previous
highest just 4.
Black Rustic,
Large Ranunculus and Brindled Green were all new for the year and all 3 I
didn't record last year.
Beaded Chestnut
was also a new moth for the year and my earliest ever recorded by 1 day.
On the smaller
moth front, another Acleris laterana comariana was most welcome and which is
such a pretty little Tortrix with delicate scale tufts. They have done very
well in my garden this year with 6 records and out of those i'm hoping at least
one is Acleris comariana which will be a new garden record.
The one last
night which I thought was one.... is a form of Acleris variegana that i've
never seen before.
A second garden
record of Hypsopygia glaucinalis was also great to see after only recording
this species this year for the first time.
Catch Report
- 22/09/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Beaded
Chestnut [NFY]
1x Black Rustic
[NFY]
1x Brindled
Green [NFY]
1x Large
Ranunculus [NFY]
2x Angle Shades
3x Brimstone
Moth
5x Common
Marbled Carpet
11x Dusky
Thorn
1x Garden Carpet
1x Humming-bird
Hawk-moth (5.30pm)
27x Large Yellow
Underwing
5x Lesser Yellow
Underwing
2x Light Emerald
7x Lunar
Underwing
2x Pale Mottled
Willow
1x Sallow
5x Setaceous
Hebrew Character
1x Snout
1x Straw
Dot
3x Square-spot
Rustic
2x Turnip Moth
3x Vine's Rustic
8x Willow Beauty
Micro Moths
1 Epinotia
nisella [NFY]
1x Acleris
variegana
1x Amblyptilia
acanthadactyla
1x Celypha
lacunana
1x Emmelina
monodactyla
5 Epiphyas
postvittana
1x Hypsopygia glaucinalis
1x Ypsolopha
parenthesella
Acleris variegana |
Beaded Chestnut |
Black Rustic |
Brindled Green |
Epinotia nisella |
Hypsopygia glaucinalis |
Large Ranunculus |
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