6th May 2011...Getting good

Thanks to the "Spanish Plume" we are now enjoying warm wind and a lot of moths.
The Dells garden recorded 8 new species for the year including one new record,
TOADFLAX BROCADE 2223 is only the 4th record in VC30 and a new record for my square, TL14.

TOADFLAX BROCADE 2223

SYCAMORE 2279

GREEN PUG 1860

WILLOW BEAUTY 1937

COMMON WAINSCOT 2199

RUSTIC SHOULDER-KNOT 2334

LARGE NUTMEG 2333 Last nights tally:-

20 + Shuttle-shaped Dart

6 x Pale Mottled Willow

5 x Turnip Moth

5 x Garden Carpet

4 x Heart & Dart

4 x Bright-line Brown-eye

3 x Setaceous Hebrew Character

2 x Small Waved Umber

2 x Waved Umber

2 x Lime Hawkmoth

2 x Brimstone Moth

2 x Marbled Minor agg.

2 x Willow Beauty *year first

3 x Large Nutmeg *year first

2 x Rustic Shoulder-knot * year first

Scalloped Hazel

Cabbage Moth

Sallow Kitten

Pebble Prominent

Sycamore *year first

Grey Dagger agg,

Green Pug * year first

Silver Y *year first

Common Wainscot *year first

Toadflax Brocade ** Garden first

MICROS

7 x Aphomia sociella

4 x Argyrotaenia ljungiana

4 x Argyresthia trifasciata

3 x Endrosis sarcitrella

3 x Epiphyas postvittana

3 x Platyedra subcinerea

2 x Tinea trinotella

2 x Cydia pomonella

2 x Epiblema cynosbatella

2 x Ephestia parasitella unicolorella

1 x Depressaria heraclei

1 x Emmelina monodactyla

1 x Evergestis forficalis

GARDEN TOTALS:-

119 species.....81 macro, 38 micro