Bernwood Forest

A couple of MV traps run in Shabbington Wood last night for the usual three hours performed much as expected with Small Quaker and Common Quaker dominating the catch, those two species alone producing well over 1,000 individual moths.  As I've already mentioned this season, some of them were small in size and this is well illustrated by the two Common Quakers below:

Common Quakers, Shabbington Wood 28th March

There was actually little else to shout about apart from a couple of early Lunar Marbled Browns, with only one micro and few geometers turning out, but then again it did get chilly very quickly.  Combined totals for the 21 species caught were Diurnea fagella (5), Yellow Horned (1), Frosted Green (16), March Moth (2), Brindled Beauty (1), Oak Beauty (41), Dotted Border (6), Engrailed (1), Lunar Marbled Brown (2), Red Chestnut (8), Pine Beauty (1), Small Quaker (772), Blossom Underwing (17), Lead-coloured Drab (10), Common Quaker (383), Clouded Drab (39), Twin-spotted Quaker (20), Hebrew Character (14), Early Grey (3), Satellite (1) & Chestnut (1).   

Lunar Marbled Brown, Shabbington Wood 28th March

Dave Wilton
Westcott, Bucks