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

Wednesday 25 May 2011

24th May 2011...Let me Introduce to you........

.......The one and only Billy SHEARS.
From the famous 1967 album "Sergeant Peppered Moths' Lonely Heart and Club Band".........OK, suit yourself.
The temperature dipped to 5 degrees last night, so not much about, lets hope this cold spell gives way to some warm, humid nights soon.
I've had a few Tawnys so I was pleased to record my first garden tick for......
THE SHEARS 2147
24th May :-
3 x Willow Beauty
7 x Heart & Dart
3 x Garden Carpet
2 x Common Marbled Carpet
3 x Large Nutmeg
3 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
1 x Marbled Minor agg.
1 x Buff Ermine
1 x Dark Arches
1 x Small Waved Umber
1 x Turnip Moth
1 x The Shears ** garden first
1 x Aphomia sociella
1 x Endrosis sarcitrella
3 x Ephestia parasitella
1 x Argyresthia spp, probably conjugella ID pending ...Confirmed as "spinosella"
1 x Platyedra subcinerea
As a note of interest, 0808 Platyedra subcinerea, is listed as NA (nationally scarce)
To date I have recorded 4 in April and 27 so far this month
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179 species...118 macro, 61 micro

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