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| Spring Usher, Bernwood Forest 25th January |
A Blog for moth recorders in Bucks, Berks and Oxon
Monday, 26 January 2015
Mild night but few moths
The long run of frosty nights locally probably put paid to getting much from last night's brief mild interlude. I ran a single MV light in Bernwood Forest, Bucks for a few hours from dusk and got just 14 moths of six species, rather fewer than I'd anticipated: Winter Moth (1), Pale Brindled Beauty (1), Spring Usher (2), Mottled Umber (4), Satellite (1) & Chestnut (5). Meanwhile, back home at Westcott, Bucks the garden actinic managed only Chestnut (1) & Dark Chestnut (2). Still, at least something turned up to break the monotony! Dave Wilton
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Similar results for me Dave, so reassuring in a way. I put 2 MV traps and an Actinic out overnight at Harcourt arboretum last night having seen the forecast and needing to complete Jan survey. I also spent an hour after dark searching tree trunks for female moths. In that hour I managed to see just 3 moths of any description: 1 x male Winter Moth, 1 x Ypsolopha ustella and 1 x Agonopterix heracliana agg. The traps were extremely poor. 1 MV had a single Chestnut underneath it, the second had a single Chestnut in it with a Spring Usher and a Pale Brindled Beauty both outside. The actinic trap however did a little better with 15 Chestnut, 4 Mottled Umber, 1 Winter Moth, and 1 Pale Brindled Beauty. I really was expecting it to be considerably better, and certainly had hoped for Early Moth. Odd. Winter has been pretty poor in my experience.
ReplyDelete1 Fly and 2 Gnats were my garden results - still only seen four moths this year.
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