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Wednesday, 27 October 2010

An Umber of Autumn Moths

In what will probably be my last garden trapping this year, wet and cloudy conditions produced a better-than-expected ten moths last night. Amongst these were a new one for the garden and another couple new for the year. The garden tick was a couple of nice Mottled Umber.
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26th October:
3 Red-line Quaker
2 Mottled Umber NFG
1 November Moth sp. NFY
1 Yellow-line Quaker
1 Feathered Thorn NFY
1 Blair's Shoulder-knot
1 late Common Marbled Carpet
and the remarkable micro, Acleris cristana
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Garden Macro Year List: 215, Garden Macro Life List: 233
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Acleris cristana
Blair's Shoulder-knot

November Moth (Epirrita) sp.

Feathered Thorn
Two different forms of Mottled Umber

2 comments:

  1. Hi Sean

    The top micro is one of the 120 odd named forms of Acleris cristana, nice!

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  2. Cheers Ben. Yes, its a wierd looking thing isn't it! Edited.

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