30th/31st May 2011....Another month gone.

New micro from 29th May....ID confirmed as ...
TRIAXOMERA PARASITELLA 224... a garden first 31st May 2011.............................................

Stupid weather ! The last two nights, believe it or not, were colder than mid January.
Not a great deal in the traps, but the month ended on a high with a year first PRIVET HAWK-MOTH 1976 31st May 2011 :-
3 x Garden Carpet
1 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
8 x Heart & Dart
1 x Large Nutmeg
1 x Brimstone Moth
1 x Common Footman
2 x Willow Beauty
1 x Lime-speck Pug
1 x Privet Hawk-moth * year first
1 x Treble Lines
1 x Mottled Rustic
2 x Emmelina monodactyla
2 x Ephestia parasitella
2 x Clepsis consimilana
1 x Cnephasia agg.
2 x Endrosis sarcitrella
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30th May 2011 :-

Plenty more of these to come...the very common COMMON FOOTMAN 2050 1 x The Snout

2 x Brimstone Moth

1 x Turnip Moth

12 x Heart & Dart

2 x Large Nutmeg

2 x Common Footman * year first

2 x Willow Beauty

1 x Treble Brown Spot

1 x Swallow Prominent

1 x Pale Mottled Willow

1 x Vine's Rustic

2 x Uncertain

1 x Double-striped Pug

2 x Pugs probably Common

3 x Emmelina monodactyla

1 x Ephestia parasitella

4 x Endrosis sarcitrella

1 x Chrysoteuchia culmella

Garden Total to date:-

197 species....124 macro, 73 micro

Tonight I confidently predict I will get my 200th species for the year !

NO wind or rain, and temperatures staying in double figures all night. (^_*)