12th March 2014 ... Garden Moth Traps latest

Not the best of conditions for moth trapping, the temperature was ok but clear skies and a bright waxing moon didn't help ... and then the fog arrived.
The early evening produced the first Small Quaker of the year and two Diurnea fagella appeared on the patio door window.
Agonopterix alstromeriana was found on the inside of the patio door window on the previous evening.
The county recorders, Andy and Melissa Banthorpe, inform me that the Pale Mottled Willow caught on the 9th March was the earliest record from VC30 and there are only 3 March records.

!!th March
1 x 0688 Agonopterix heracliana
1 x 0695 Agonopterix alstromeriana ... year first
1 x 1524 Emmelina monodactyla
1 x 1862 Double-striped Pug
6 x 2187 Common Quaker
1 x 2188 Clouded Drab
1 x 2243 Early Grey

12th March
2 x 0663 Diurnea fagella ... year first
4 x 1524 Emmelina monodactyla
1 x 2182 Small Quaker ... year first
1 x 2197 Common Quaker
2 x 2243 Early Grey
1 x 2259 Dark Chestnut

Agonopterix alstromeriana.. 11th March 2014

Diurnea fagella .. 12th March 2014

Small Quaker .. 12th March 2014