10th Aug 2011...Improving

Overnight min temp :- 13.3 deg.....windy
Nothing exciting in the traps but at least it was 5 deg warmer and looks to be even warmer tonight with the wind dropping.

COLEOPHORA HEMEROBIELLA

BLASTOBASIS ADUSTELLA

TOADFLAX PUG

GELECHIA SENTICETELLA

PHYCITA ROBORELLA

The wind didn't blow anything exotic into my garden but numbers were up and 41 species were recorded.

24th July 2011...Garden latest

Overnight minimum temp....8.8 deg
Still cold but the temp hung around at 13 deg until late evening and the moth count was higher.
Of the 90 macro moths caught, 30% of them were Shuttle-shaped Darts.
The Catch:-
34 x Shuttle-shaped Dart
2 x Willow Beauty
2 x Buff Ermine
2 x Brimstone Moth
5 x Scarce Footman (No Common Footman)
3 x Ruby Tiger
1 x Silver Y

SILVER Y

2 x Marbled Beauty
1 x Lesser Yellow Underwing
1 x Heart & Dart
3 x Dark Arches
7 x Riband Wave
3 x Cloaked Minor
1 x Early Thorn


EARLY THORN

 2 x Red Twin-spot Carpet
2 x Yellow Shell
1 x Grey Dagger agg.
1 x Mouse Moth
1 x Bright-line Brown-eye
1 x Brown-line Bright-eye
1 x Dusky Sallow

DUSKY SALLOW

1 x Scalloped Oak
2 x Double Square-spot
1 x Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2 x Uncertain
1 x Smoky Wainscot
1 x Large Yellow Underwing
1 x Nut-tree Tussock


NUT-TREE TUSSOCK

 1 x Agapeta hamana
5 x Crambus pascuella
2 x Argyrotaenia ljungiana
3 x Hofmannophila pseudospretella
1 x Pyralis farinalis
3 x Pleuroptya ruralis
1 x Aphelia paleana
3 x Eudonia mercurella
1 x Cnephasia spp.
6 x Acentria ephemerella
1 x Acleris forsskaleana
2 x Yponomeuta evonymella
1 x Yponomeuta malinellus
1 x Coleophora hemerobiella NFG

COLEOPHORA HEMEROBIELLA

2 x Celypha striana
3 x Chrysoteuchia culmella
1 x Gelechia senticetella
1 x Bryotropha terrella
1 x Pyrausta aurata
Garden year tally:-
330 species, 195 macro, 135 micro