23rd March 2012... The Dells garden

Overnight min. temp. 3.8 deg
The warm sun in the garden today produced 2 Esperia sulphurella and an unfortunate common lizard which the cat caught and brought into the house.
It had shed its tail during the encounter, and remarkably lived to see another sunny day....................



Common or Viviparous Lizard,  Zootoca vivipara

 A couple of minutes after placing it in the sun on the front patio paving slabs, it scuttled off  without its tail, which will regrow.

MOTHS :-
Temperatures remained above 8 deg C until midnight and the highest count of moths to date were recorded in and around the garden traps....49 moths of 12 species.
Esperia sulphurella and Brindled Pug were added to the year list plus a Mompha type to be ID'd..................

0649...Esperia sulphurella 2, year first
0695...Agonopterix alstromeriana 1
1524...Emmelina monodactyla 14
1852...Brindled Pug Eupithecia abbreviata 1, year first



Brindled Pug, Eupithecia abbreviata

 1862...Double-striped Pug Gymnoscelis rufifasciata 4
1917...Early Thorn Selenia dentaria 1
2182...Small Quaker Orthosia cruda 4
2187...Common Quaker Orthosia cerasi 12
2188...Clouded Drab Orthosia incerta 6
2190...Hebrew Character Orthosia gothica 2
2243...Early Grey Xylocampa areola 3

Not sure of this one.....
I thought maybe Mompha propinquella  at first, but Epermenia chaerophyllella is also similar...........
Comments are always welcome.

Now officially confirmed as Epermenia chaerophyllella.... Thanks Skev ! That is new for the garden and brings me ever closer to that 500 species total.