At least I trapped a new for year species in the form of a Small Waved Umber, making 94 species now for this year which is still 22 ahead of this time last year.
Tonight looks warm after highs of 23 degrees today and I have been informed from the experts at the weather centre, that it is not due to dip below 10c... we'll see :)
I did have another hour wander around the local area today, and initially struggled to battle with the wind again, with the branches swaying and my net flailing around, it wasn't looking good!
Fortunately I found a nice calm area out of the breeze and straight away, I noticed moths flying just on the extremity of a large patch of Bluebells, they were of course the Tortrix moth,
Hysterophora maculosana. I netted at least 6 with more flying around and picked the most vibrant coloured one to bring back hom for a photo, i'll take him/her back tomorrow to the favoured spot.
I also netted a single Bucculatrix species and a Stigmella that keeps racing around the pot (no photo yet), the Bucculatrix i've had under a hand lens and tried to turn it into cidarella (a moth I took once in Bedfordshire), but it is just a dark ulmella, nevertheless a new species for the year.
Garden species count for 2020 now upto 94.
5 moths of 3 species to 125w MV Robinson Trap min 4c at 5:00am
Catch Report - 06/05/20 - Back Garden - Stevenage - North Herts
Macro Moths
Small Waved Umber 1 [NFY]
Micro Moths
Emmelina monodactyla 3
Daytime Wander - 07/05/20 - Great Ashby field margins - North Herts
Adela reamurella 20
Bucculatrix ulmella 1
Elachista rufocinerea 1
Esperia sulphurella 1
Hysterophora maculosana 6
Hysterophora maculosana 6
Incurvaria masculella 1
Phyllonorycter maestingella 3
phyllonorycter quercifoliella 1
Stigmella sp
Syndemis musculana 2
Bucculatrix ulmella |
Hysterophora maculosana |
Small Waved Umber |
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