I have hardly trapped at all this autumn. We had a couple of warm nights a fortnight ago, but due to various reasons, I could not trap, which was rather frustrating. I managed to trap once last week, but the result was fairly poor, with just one true autumn species, a Lunar Underwing. However, with the weather taking a turn for the warm, I trapped last night and it was a brilliant haul. I got almost all the autumnal species I expect to get during the period in one go! Best was a brand new species to me, of a gorgeous Autumnal Rustic, which was much smaller than I expected.
September 26th:
12 Large Yellow Underwing
5 Lunar Underwing
3 Snout
3 Common Marbled Carpet
3 Svennson's Copper Underwing
3 Copper Underwing
2 Large Ranunculus NFY
1 Brimstone
1 Square-spot Rustic
1 Grey Pine Carpet
1 Spruce Carpet
1 Oak Nycteoline
1 Setaceous Hebrew Character
1 Pink-barred Sallow NFY
1 Black Rustic NFY
1 Barred Sallow NFY
1 Brindled Green NFY
1 Autumnal Rustic NFG
Pink-barred Sallow
Lunar Underwings (variation)
Large Ranunculus
Brindled Green
Black Rustic
Barred Sallow
Autumnal Rustic
Hi there and thanks very much for your help with my Blair's Shoulder Knot. I think I've got all the others now, though I usually blunder somewhere along the line. Great moths on your blog! Warm wishes Martin W
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