From the garden moth-trap

Chilly chilly it's evening time.
Ray Davies.
Cold easterlies are affecting us right now and the air has a distinct chilly feel to it.
Some more autumn moths of late:-
First record of Stigmella hybnerella in garden ...

BF99 Stigmella hybnerella, mine on Hawthorn. 7th Oct '15

BF34 Ectoedemia occultella, mine on Birch, 12th Oct. '15

BF2375 - Large Wainscot - 12th Oct. '15

BF2263 - Red-line Quaker - 10th Oct. '15

A year first Brick ...

BF2262 - Brick - 11th Oct. '15

BF2258 - Chestnut - 11th Oct. '15

BF2240 - Blair's Shoulder-knot - 11th Oct. '15

BF263 - Lyonetia clerkella, 10th Oct. '15

BF2473 - Beautiful Hook-tip - 9th Oct '15 ... Latest County record for VC30

BF2245 Green-brindled Crescent f. capucina - 9th Oct. '15

11/11/11....Migrants

Overnight min temp. 10.1 deg...20mph gusts, drizzle and rain from 11pm until midnightish.
Thursdays very bright full moon resulted in a blank for the traps, but last night was a different story.
No sign of the moon, heavily overcast and apart from an hour of rain it was a good night.
13 moths of 11 species were recorded.
Also another garden first was added to The Dells species list, not from the traps but from a phone call.
I sent an unidentified moth to the recorders that had been refridgerated since 15th september.
After a gen det it turned out to be a male Garden Dart which brings the 2011 macro total to a tantalising 249 species. Thanks to Andy and Melissa Banthorpe, whose help over the last 3 years has been invaluable.
Last nights haul :-

BRICK

SATELLITE



DARK SWORD-GRASS



SILVER Y

RUSTY DOT PEARL





RED-LINE QUAKER

BLAIR'S SHOULDER-KNOT



NOVEMBER MOTH agg.

plus
Turnip Moth
Blastobasis lacticolella
Epiphyas postvittana x 3

3rd Oct 2011...Red line, Yellow line

Minimum overnight temp...12.9 deg, Breezy
A good night for the garden year ticks with 3 additional macros.
18 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
12 x Pale Mottled Willow
8 x Large Yellow Underwing
7 x Lesser Yellow Underwing
5 x Lunar Underwing
2 x Sallow
1 x Brick... year first

THE BRICK

3 x Willow Beauty
2 x Turnip Moth
1 x Brimstone Moth
2 x Black Rustic
2 x Yellow-line Quaker... Year first

YELLOW-LINE QUAKER

1 x Garden Carpet
1 x Mallow
2 x Blair's Shoulder-knot
1 x Red-line Quaker... Year first

RED-LINE QUAKER

2 x Angle Shades
1 x Square-spot Rustic
1 x Large Ranunculus
1 x Red-green Carpet

RED-GREEN CARPET

4 x Epiphyas postvittana
2 x Emmelina monodactyla
1 x Eudonia angustea
1 x Phyllonorycter leucographella


PHYLLONORYCTER LEUCOGRAPHELLA 

1 x Endrosis sarcitrella
1 x Cacoecimorpha pronubana
1 x Red-barred Tortrix or similar
3 x Depressaria species... TBC

The Dells garden year total is now 415 with a few pending ID's
242 macro and 173 micro
The wine bet is now a run race with Captain Trappings sitting on an unassailable lead, unless a miracle occurs. Three loaves, 5 fishes and about 30 moths would do !


ALL IN ALL IT'S JUST ANOTHER BRICK ON MY WALL

I.D. confirmed(thanks Ian) The Brick

MORE PICS OF BRICK ?? (confirmed )