Was surprised and delighted to find this Merveille du Jour in the trap on Sunday morning, my first in 4 years of trapping (I hoped they were around but were clearly until now very successfully avoiding the moth trap).
Also nice to see this fresh large ranunculus
Still no sign of the Clifden nonpareil's that seem to be turning up in everyone else's traps though (might be at least another years wait for me!)
Vikki Rose, Abingdon
Hi Vikki,
ReplyDeleteYour Merveille du Jour is rather early! I wouldn't expect to see it until the last few days of September with most records coming during October.
Yes I was surprised to see it so early too, but there was one other on Twitter over the weekend, so mine won't be the only early record :-)
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