2nd April 2014 ... Saharan Dusty Wave

Another warm evening saw moth numbers increase to 57 of 14 species.
Had to dust off the perspex sheets in the traps as a mixture of unacceptable London pollution combined with an acceptable (yeah right) level of European pollution, and just for good measure, a wave of dust from the Sahara desert joined them on a light easterly breeze covering the traps and my vehicles with a light orangey-brown coating.
The cars can wait.

Out of Africa ... my car bonnet

Trap results:-
0483 ... Epermenia chaerophyllella, x 1
0688 ... Agonopterix heracliana, x 1
0998 ... Epiphyas postvittana, x 2
1524 ... Emmelina monodactyla, x 9
1862 ... Double-striped Pug, x 14
1917 ... Early Thorn, x 1
2063 ... Muslin Moth, x 1, ... year first

Diaphora mendica, Muslin Moth, male

2182 ... Small Quaker, x 2
2187 ... Common Quaker, x 11
2188 ... Clouded Drab, x 6
2190 ... Hebrew Character, x 4
2243 ... Early Grey, x 2
2389 ... Pale Mottled Willow, x 2
2469 ... Herald, x 1, ... year first

Scoliopteryx libatrix, The Herald

The first Hedgehog was seen snuffling around the garden last night (2nd April)