8th March 2012 ... Garden update...First D-s Pug

Overnight min. temp. 5.2 deg. Bright full moon mostly cloud covered
A good catch with 18 moths of ten species.
The spiders in my garden were a good sign that the moths would be flying.... all out early evening spinning new webs, but I may re-locate some of them as they soon learn to congregate near the traps.
The first Double-striped Pug was expected along with a steady increase of Orthosia spp. plus two year first micros.
The next 3 or 4 nights look to be ideal in Bedfordshire as long as the rain holds off.
  
1862 Double-striped Pug ... year first .. Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
2182 Small Quaker...................................Orthosia cruda
2187 Common Quaker x 5.......................Orthosia cerasi
2190 Hebrew Character............................Orthosia gothica
2243 Early Grey........................................Xylocampa areola
2258 Chestnut...........................................Conistra vaccinii
0668 Agonopterix heracliana  x 5
0663 Diurnea fagella ... year first
1342 Eudonia angustea ... year first
1524 Emmelina monodactyla

Eudonia angustea




Double-striped Pug ...Gymnoscelis rufifasciata

 


Diurnea fagella




Agonopterix heracliana