A few highlights from the past three nights trapping in the garden. Catches now are mainly Rustics and Yellow Underwings, for example, last night a catch of 500 moths of 63 sp could be broken down into 285 of them being 7 species of 'brown' the other 200 odd made up of 56 varied species.
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| To begin with, the first Old Lady of the year on my Sugar Table. |
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| Cloaked Minor, a garden first. Ive only seen one other some years back at East Chevington. |
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| Above two Ear Moth agg. They come in various shades. I had some checked over once and found Large Ear and Saltern Ear in the garden, but would like to know how common each are. |
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| Orange Swift |
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| Clavigesta purdeyi, another new one for the garden. Its a bit battered though. |
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| A lovely bright Lilac Beauty is always exciting. A localised species, Ive had a few here. |
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| Pale Mottled Willow is a common moth generally but not here, its just about annual. For a noctuid its quite flighty, this one is warming up for take off. |
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| Rush Veneer, a migrant moth that resembles a Caddisfly. |
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