The latest "best night of the year so far" started with some sweep netting on my overgrown front lawn.
Tall grasses and a lot of Ox-eye Daisies are present and our micro recorder suggested a sweep as he had found some of the scarcer Dichrorampha on his ox-eye.
One Dichrorampha, probably "plumbagana", turned up with a Carnation Tortrix, an unidentified micro and a garden first Nettle-tap....
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| 385 ... Anthophila fabriciana ... Nettle-tap |
After recording a big selection of moths throughout the evening around the traps it was time for shut-eye and a check inside the traps in the morning.
The tragic part was after I had checked the house end trap, I moved on to the BBQ end trap.
Bearing in mind the skinner trap near the barbie has a 23mm slot, it was amazing to see a House Sparrow had forced it's way into the trap. Not only that, two more appeared from behind egg boxes !!!
I released the flock ? (how many birds make a flock ? more than two ?) and checked the trap....it was carnage !
One set of wings belonged to a Privet Hawk-moth, with several Heart and Dart and many others.
New for Year moths .........
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| 216 ... Cork Moth ... Nemapogon cloacella |
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746 ... Chrysoesthia drurella
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1392 ... Udea olivalis
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| 1958 ... Clouded Silver ... Lomographa temerata |
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| 1955 ... Common White Wave ... Cabera pusaria |
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| 1902 ... Brown Silver-line ... Petrophora chlorosata |
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| 1768 ... Grey Pine Carpet ... Thera obeliscata |
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| 1991 ... Elephant Hawk-moth ... Deilephila elpenor |
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| 1682 ... Blood-vein ... Timandra cornae |
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