Monday 18 September 2017

Merton, Oxfordshire

Along with the usual early Autumn moths in the garden Skinner 2x30W Actinic trap last night, a Cypress Pug:


2 comments:

  1. Hi Chris, I had one here over the border in Westcott last night too. Fifth garden record since 2009 but perhaps more significantly the third year in a row here, so it is presumably becoming established locally now. Always nice to see a pug that's easily identified!

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  2. Thanks Dave. First for me since I started trapping (coincidentally 2009). I see from the books/web that it is a species that is moving North having first been identified in the South-West late 50's. I wasn't quite sure if it had reached us yet, but from your comment it obviously has. Maybe at last a pro for Leyland hedging :)

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