10th March 2012...New garden macro

Overnight min. temp. 3.8 deg, calm, mostly clear, bright moon 85%, waning.
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No early evening trap patrols due to dinner outing with friends, and following a nice meal and a few pints of Old Hookey I woke up on the lounge at 4.00am.
An early morning trap check revealed a new macro species for The Dells garden in the concocted Homebase Funnel Trap...............

1 x Homebase Plastic "Storage Solutions" Container ..... £5.00
2 x Large Plastic Funnels from e-bay.................................£6.00
PL 2-pin Actinic lamps/lampholders/Ballast etc...............£25.00
1 Garden first Yellow Horned..........................................Priceless !



Homebase Funnel Trap in action





YELLOW HORNED, Achlya flavicornis

Last nights catch:-
1 x 0663...Diurnea fagella
1 x 0688...Agonopterix heracliana
3 x 1524...Emmelina monodactyla
1 x 1659...Yellow Horned, garden first, Achlya flavicornis
5 x 2187...Common Quaker................... Orthosia cerasi
1 x 2243...Early Grey.............................. Xylocampa areola





21st March 2011...Home and away

The Home Wood Field Trip went well, the weather was perfect and all the equipment worked fine on its maiden outing.
This was the second such visit of what will be a regular monthly excursion.
There are no previous records from this comparatively young wood so we don't know what to expect.
25 species were noted of circa 140 moths, although there were probably more but we only counted maximums on view at any one time.
The full report will appear on Matts blog pages at http://thetrappingsofsuccess.blogspot.com/
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Captain Trappings, surveying the scene as the equipment is being set up.

A few fresh STREAMERS appeared early evening

Just a single YELLOW HORNED

SHOULDER STRIPE

ENGRAILED spp Best of the rest :-

Acleris literana

Oak Beauty

Red Green Carpet

Lead-coloured Drab

Acleris ferrugana/notana

Small Brindled Beauty

Brindled Pug

and the usual suspects were also present in numbers.

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On the Home front, I left the garden trap on with great expectations and was gutted with the result ! On the best night of the year to date, just the usual Common Quakers and Drabs etc.

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Garden to date :-

Last night......

8 x Common Quaker

3 x Emmelina monodactyla

One each of the following :-

Double-striped Pug

Early Grey

Clouded Drab

Hebrew Character

Agonopterix heracliana

Diurnea fagella

255 moths (175 macro, 80 micro) of 25 species (17 macro, 8 micro)