A Fine Figure of Beauty

Still an absence of cloud in the sky at the moment (looks like that will be rectified in the next few days), but the warm temps continue to bring my fantastic new trap into its own.  Last night, I got the most species in the trap this year (30), which included another new moth to me, and yet another garden tick in addition.  Poplar feeders are quite a scarcity in my garden, so it was nice to get my first ever Figure of 80, alongside my first Pine Beauty for the garden, just a few days after seeing my first adult at Hagthorne. 

28th May:
6 Shuttle-shaped Dart
5 Common Marbled Carpet
5 Brimstone
3 Buff-tip
2 Scalloped Hazel
2 Orange Footman
2 Poplar Grey
2 Common Carpet NFY
1 Lobster Moth NFY
1 Treble Lines NFY
1 Pine Beauty NFG
1 Peppered Moth
1 Pale Prominent NFY
1 Grey Pine Carpet
1 Silver-ground Carpet
1 White Point NFY
1 Red Twin-spot Carpet
1 Pebble Hook-tip
1 Marbled White-spot NFY
1 Flame Shoulder
1 Small Seraphim
1 Vine's Rustic NFY
1 Common Pug
1 Figure of 80 NFM
1 Pebble Prominent
1 Red-green Carpet
1 White-pinion Spotted
1 Green Carpet
1 Angle Shades
1 Silver Y

Common Carpet

 Pebble Hook-tip

Figure of 80 (the mark which gives the moth its name is upside down)

Silver Y

Vine's Rustic

White Point

Pale Prominent

Treble Lines

Lobster Moth

Pine Beauty

Marbled White-spot

I'm sure some of you guys are trapping (Billy, Angela, and Ken!), lets hear how you're doing!

The Dark side

I'm sorry I can't make the 200th blog post more dynamic than trapping in the garden, but its fitting to at least get a garden tick. In decent conditions, numbers were actually a bit down, but luckily quality was good, with several year ticks, a second record, and the new garden species. The new one was the respectable county record of Dark Spectacle (although the reason there are so few records is due to confusion arrising from the changing of nomenclature!). I also got my second record of Suspected, and bizzarely, just like my first record, involves two individuals.

2nd August:
7 Dunbar
7 Shuttle-shaped Dart
6 Large Yellow Underwing
6 Riband Wave
4 Common Rustic
2 Common Carpet
2 Clay
2 Suspected NFY
2 Willow Beauty
1 Rosy Footman
1 Small Phoenix
1 Knot Grass NFY
1 Common Footman NFY
1 Slender Brindle
1 Lesser Yellow Underwing NFY
1 Dark Arches
1 Ear Moth
1 Uncertain
1 Scalloped Oak
1 Small Fan-footed Wave
1 Svensson's Copper Underwing NFY
1 Dark Spectacle NFG

Common Carpet

Suspected

Knot Grass

Dark Spectacle