31st March 2014 ... Garden Moth Traps latest

Min. overnight temperature .. 9 deg C, calm and cloudy with a brief light spell of rain..
No great numbers of moths in the traps but the nightly species list is gradually getting longer.
Oak Nycteoline was a good catch for the garden as was Brindled Beauty, both rare at The Dells.
Catch List :-
0006 ... Eriocrania subpurpurella, x 1, ... Year first

Eriocrania subpurpurella 

0483 ... Epermenia chaerophyllella, x 2,
0688 ... Agonopterix heracliana, x 2
0998 ... Epiphyas postvittana, x 2
1524 ... Emmelina monodactyla, x 10
1862 ... Double-striped Pug, x 17
1906 ... Brimstone Moth, x 1, ... Year first

Brimstone Moth

1917 ... Early Thorn, x 1
1927 ... Brindled Beauty, x 1, ... Year first

Brindled Beauty, Lycia hirtaria

2182 ... Small Quaker, x 4
2187 ... Common Quaker, x 3
2188 ... Clouded Drab, x 3
2190 ... Hebrew Character, x 3
2243 ... Early Grey, x 4
2256 ... Satellite, x 2
2423 ... Oak Nycteoline, x 1, ... Year first

Oak Nycteoline, ... Nycteola revayana

The first Caddis for 2014, however I have no idea what species it is, but it is very early ...

15th Sept 2012 .... Garden Traps

The traps held no surprises this morning, still plenty of tired looking Yellow Underwings and other brown creatures.
A fresh looking Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing was noted just as I thought they had given up this year.
The desert of brown had the odd oasis, Brimstone Moth, Garden and Common Marbled Carpets and a Burnished Brass.
I'm not sure of the status of Burnished Brass to date as there appears to be strong evidence of a split, so maybe Cryptic Burnished Brass, as some are calling it, will soon be appearing on records.
If anyone has any comments on this....feel free.
Nothing seems to be Cryptic about this one.....

Common Marbled Carpet, for the past few years have all been the version with the big orangey red blotch on the forewing, but this year they have given way to the darker forms......Pic very much brightened to show pattern.

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Caddis Flies !
Not so many now but my traps get full of them during the elusive Summer,,, not a clue what species this is, but I may "get into them" someday, even though ID is a mare with some species and gen det is required.