27th June 2014 ... Peachy !

Still getting cool nights in Bedfordshire and wet from the afternoon rain.
No small micros were trapped or seen nearby and the macro catch was unsurprising except for a Peach Blossom, only the second record for the garden ....
1652 ... PEACH BLOSSOM

Best of the rest ...
Small Blood-vein
Barred Yellow
Common White Wave
Privet Hawk-moth
Buff-tip
Broad-barred White
Small Ranunculus
Angle Shades
Light Arches

above ... 2322 ... LIGHT ARCHES

1st July 2011....2 new garden species

After a nights communial trapping at the RSPB headquarters, The Lodge, it was great to check the garden trap at around 3 am and find two new species.
RUDDY CARPET on the shed wall, below the 15 watt actinic fluorescent followed by...............

........ a very attractive PEACH BLOSSOM Garden totals :-

298 species....181 macro, 117 micro

Time and commitments have prevented us from doing a nights trapping in Home Wood for June, so tonight we are going to dump an MV skinner in there and collect in the morning.