8th June 2011...garden traps update

Quite a productive night with 2 garden firsts and 3 new for year moths trapped.
The blacklight flourescent in the patio window came up trumps as I potted a garden first FERN and a year first BARRED YELLOW by simply opening the door and leaning out with a specimen pot, I had to get out of my chair though.
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THE FERN 1782

SMALL ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH 1992... garden first

A year first BARRED YELLOW 1765

A year first SCARCE FOOTMAN 2047... not so scarce in my garden

First appearance this year for DOUBLE SQUARE-SPOT 2128 Last nights list :-

2 x Brimstone Moth

5 x Willow Beauty

4 x Common Footman

2 x Scarce Footman * year first

1 x Riband Wave

21 Heart & Dart

1 x Barred Yellow * year first

1 x Small Elephant Hawk-moth ** garden first

2 x Garden Carpet

3 x The Flame

5 x Dark Arches

1 x Yellow Shell

1 x Setaceous Hebrew Character (dark)

4 x Mottled Rustic

3 x Uncertain

1 x Heart & Club

2 x Turnip Moth

1 x Buff Ermine

1 x Bright-line Brown-eye

1 x Large Yellow Underwing

1 x Common Swift

1 x Double Square-spot * year first

1 x The Fern ** garden first

6 x Various Pugs
1 x Aphelia paleana

1 x Endrosis sarcitrella

1 x Pempeliella dilutella

1 x Eurrhypara hortulata

1 x Udea olivalis

2 x Aphomia sociella

1 x Eudonia mercurella

1 x Eudonia angustea

1 x Parapoynx stratiotata

Garden running total :-

231 species.....140 macro, 91 micro

The Wine bet.....Holding my own and pulling ahead slightly