WINE RACE 2016 .. MATTc380 .. TRENT 353 .. BEN 347 ...... Garden species:- Macros 357, Micros 365, Total 722

Sunday 24 April 2011

23rd April 2011.....Ticking along beautifully

The warm weather continues and already some people are moaning about being too hot....say no more...........The moths on the other hand relish the warmer weather and came out en masse last night... At 11pm it was still 15 deg and The Dells traps chalked up another garden "first" a cracking PALE OAK BEAUTY 1944 of the dark form humperti, wingspan...50mm


First of hundreds no doubt.....Pyrausta aurata




SCORCHED CARPET 1888 a nice addition to 2011






WAVED UMBER 1936 FFY








CYDIA POMONELLA 1261.....Codling Moth Last night:-


24 x Shuttle-shaped Dart


15 x Argyrotaenia ljungiana


3 x Epiphyas postvittana


3 x Endrosis sarcitrella


2 x Emmelina monodactyla


2 x Grey Dagger agg.


2 x Brimstone Moth


2 x Knot Grass


2 x Scalloped Hazel


Scorched Carpet *year first


Pyrausta aurata *year first


Flame Shoulder


Pale Tussock


Early Grey


Common Quaker


Powdered Quaker


Nut-tree Tussock


Ruby Tiger


Lime Hawkmoth


Tinea trinotella


Waved Umber *year first


Pale Oak Beauty *Garden first


Nutmeg


Cochylis dubitana


Incurvaria masculella


Plutella xylostella *year first


Hofmannophila pseudospretella


Cydia pomonella *year first


Muslin Moth


Esperia sulphurella


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GARDEN TOTAL:-


86 species......57 macro, 29 micro









3 comments:

  1. Three cracking macros there, Trent. Very nice.

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  2. Trent is that Pale Oak Beauty not of the form 'humperti dumperti' :)

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  3. DEAN....Cheers, I was over the moon with the P.O.B.
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    STEWART..... I don't know, but it WAS sat on a wall !

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