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Sunday 26 February 2012

More than I bargained for!

Like others, I've been taking advantage of the very unseasonal weather to pop the moth trap out in the garden. To be honest, I didn't expect to be as successful as I have been, with a total of 15 species recorded (and god knows how many individuals!) over the past 3 days, bringing the 2012 garden moth list to 20... a figure that wasn't reached until 22nd March last year. Perhaps a sign of things to come?
Here's the list so far:

Dark Chestnut
Chestnut
March Moth
Common Quaker
Small Quaker
Clouded Drab
Small Brindled Beauty
Pale Brindled Beauty
Winter Moth
Spring Usher
Tachystola acroxantha
Epiphyas postvittana
Carpatolechia decorella
Ypsolopha ustella
Tortricodes alternella
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla
Emmelina monodactyla
Agonopterix heracliana
Mompha subbistrigella
Acleris cristana

Small Quaker, 1 of 3...


Small Quaker w/ big brother, the Common Quaker...


Spring Usher...


March Moth...


Small Brindled Beauty, the most numerous moth in the trap at present...


Pale Brindled Beauty, a belated garden first...


A gang of 'Beauties'...


Clouded Drab...


Dark Chestnut, a first for the garden...


Carpatolechia decorella...


Mompha subbistrigella...



Ysolopha ustella...


Emmelina monodactyla...

Not exactly a moth, but the thin crescent of the moon was looking nice on Friday night...


Happy mothing!

2 comments:

  1. Wow I can't even compete with you Bill, a superb list of species, well done! Small Brindled Beauty is a good one a moth I get singles of now and then and very local in these parts.

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  2. I get an awful lot of Small Brindled Beauty in Wimbledon...I had 18 of them on Friday night!

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