Thursday, 20 February 2014

Some wet beauties

Great stuff, finally ran a trap away from garden as part of my monthly survey at Harcourt Arboretum and got plenty of personal firsts for 2014 last night despite wet conditions. 12 species included: Chestnut, Dotted Chestnut, Hebrew Character, Small Quaker, Common Quaker, Pale Brindled Beauty, Oak Beauty, Spring Usher, Red-green Carpet, March Moth, Torticodes alternella and Agonopterix spp (probably heracliana but TBC). Numbers not great with just 33 moths but a welcome start. Marc Botham
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  1. Dave Wilton20 February 2014 at 11:24

    Nice one! I had a Common Quaker in the garden last night so things are definitely starting to move now.

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  2. Marc Botham23 February 2014 at 11:53

    Yep, I'm rearing to go. My garden's still not doing well at all. Despite going outside in just a t-shirt last night because it was so mild, no moths in trap. Mind you I keep having to shelter the trap as the wind is just relentless up on the ridgeway, so perhaps there are moths around but they can't get anyway near the trap :).

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