22nd May 2011...Micros rule ok

It was the micros that grabbed the limelight last night, with 4 new ticks for the garden list.
I didn't get too involved with the micros last year so I am expecting quite a few common garden "firsts"

AGLOSSA PINGUINALIS 1421....year first "Large Tabby"

CLEPSIS SPECTRANA 0993...garden first "Cyclamen Tortrix"

CELYPHA STRIANA 1063....year first, common in garden last year.

BLASTOBASIS LACTICOLELLA 0874... year first for this familiar micro 22nd May:-

6 x Large Nutmeg

9 x Heart and Dart

1 x Flame Shoulder

3 x Vine's Rustic

1 x Uncertain

3 x Mottled Rustic

1 x Willow Beauty

3 x Marbled Minor agg.

2 x Setaceous Hebrew Character

2 x Green Pug

1 x Common Pug

1 x Cinnabar

3 x Dark Arches

2 x Shuttle-shaped Dart

2 x Turnip Moth

1 x Blastobasis lacticolella * year first

2 x Aphomia sociella

2 x Epiphyas postvittana

1 x Emmelina monodactyla

2 x Platyedra subcinerea

1 x Aglossa pinguinalis * year first

2 x Ephestia parasitella f. unicolorella

1 x Clepsis consimilana

1 x Celypha striana * Year first

1 x Clepsis spectrana ** garden first

TALLY :-

177 species......117 macro, 60 micro