FlyinginFordham: Despite the weather, they've still got to fly

Sunday night wasn't too bad here, the pick of the nights for at least a week and so the moths responded accordingly.

After all, the moths have to take flight to find a mate and breed, so they really are up against the clock, especially as we are now coming into the peak mothing season here in the UK.

Tuesday night was worrying, just 12 moths and last night I didn't even bother.

Back to the 7th and there was quite a bit of interest to the trap early evening and overnight.

It was originally 8 new ones for the year, pretty darn good given how average the conditions had been, but whilst photographing the moths in the garden, my son potted up a few more moths, he added a further 2 new species for the year! A Netted Pug & Light Arches.

Pick of the macros was a Delicate, the earliest I've recorded here by a month.

The best micro was pine feeding Dioryctria simplicella, a regular moth here but rather scarce nationwide.

And that was pretty much it up until now, the 11th!