Tuesday, 11 March 2014

More moths from Finemere on Sunday evening

I spent two hours in Finemere woods, Bucks on Sunday 9th March, and got a reasonable haul with my 15 watt actinic trap which comprised:- Yellow-horned (6); Red chestnut (2); Satellite moth (1); Early grey (1); Small quaker (18); Common quaker (6); Clouded drab (4); Hebrew character (1); Oak beauty (1); Small brindled beauty (10); Pale brindled beauty (1); Spring usher (1); Shoulder-stripe (1); March moth (3); Engrailed moth (12); Tortricodes alternella (25+); and Diurnea fagella (2) - a total of approx. 95 moths in two hours in the woods, which contrasted sharply with the 1 Common quaker in my Aylesbury garden m.v. trap that was on all night! Proving woodland beats the town any time for moths!
Dave Maunder

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4 comments:

  1. Dave Wilton12 March 2014 at 11:52

    Do you mean Yellow Horned and Shoulder Stripe?! :)) You'll be encouraging the younger generation into bad habits with those hyphens!

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  2. Unknown12 March 2014 at 13:41

    My apologies, Dave

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  3. Dave Wilton12 March 2014 at 16:36

    This is the main drawback with not having Wendy to vet everything and correct our little mistakes, as she used to do on the web-site. We all need to take a little more care with our spelling (me included!!).

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  4. Marc Botham12 March 2014 at 19:35

    Guilty also - seems I've imprinted it on my mind that it was actually Yellow-horned. Duly noted :)

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