Happy New Year everyone! Eight individuals of three species came to the actinic light last night and if my memory is correct that is the highest number of moths I've ever had in the garden on the first night of the year - I'm usually pleased to get just a single Winter Moth to open the new account:
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| Westcott 1st January 2023 |
The Red-green Carpet and Pale Brindled Beauty arrived as singletons while it was still raining quite heavily during the first few hours after dark, but the balance of Mottled Umber (6) turned up much later after the rain had stopped.
Looking back at the final couple of weeks of December, there was little of interest in the garden over that period and the species count for the entire month came to just nine: Mompha subbistrigella, Agonopterix heracliana, Acleris ferrugana/notana, Acleris hastiana, December Moth, Winter Moth, Scarce Umber, Mottled Umber & Satellite. We were away for a few days on the Wirral between Christmas and New Year where I did manage to find a Herald hibernating indoors. The final moth of the year was, needless to say, a Mottled Umber back at Westcott on the night of the 31st.
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| Acleris hastiana, Westcott 20th December 2022 |
Dave Wilton Westcott, Bucks
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