Monday, 27 August 2018

Garden Catch 25/06/18 - Trapping every night brings new species

I seem to be trapping every night currently with these extremely warm conditions, and not just during the daytime, where highs of 28 degrees have become the norm lately.
With partly cloudy skies and no wind, catches have been huge for my small sub-urban/semi-rural garden.
The large and impressive Swallow-tailed Moth is a sight to behold each year, they always do very well in my garden and always remind me of Trpoical species of Uraniidae, some of which I was lucky to see in Thailand in 2011.
Engrailed was back as a smaller second generation and a few more common species bolstered the list to only 3 new species for the year mind, but with 72 species in total it was a pretty good catch.
 
Garden species count for 2018 now upto 270.

Here are the new for year species.


Catch Report - 25/06/18 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 250w Clear MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

Double Square-spot
Single-dotted Wave
Swallow-tailed Moth 2

Micro Moths

None Recorded!

Single-dotted Wave

Double Square-spot

Acentria emphemerella in there 10's!

Swallow-tailed Moth