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Top Moth from National Moth Night for me: an iridescent Green-brindled Crescent |
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Common Marbled Carpet |
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Another favourite: Ruby Tiger with a long-snouted caddisfly |
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Snout and another caddis |
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And another; the good old Burnished Brass (f.juncta) |
Here by contrast are the figures from Friday's trap, which I must also remember to send to the organisers of National Moth Night - and do let me encourage you to do likewise. I will try to be more on the ball next year and flag the event up in advance.
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New for the year: Autumnal Moth |
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Red-green Carpet |
35 Setaceous Hebrew Characters
31 Black Rustics
10 Large Yellow Underwing
8 Lunar Underwing
5 Red-line Quaker
4 Square-dot Rustic
4 Lesser Yellow Underwing
4 Sallow
3 Green-brindled Crescent
2 Autumnal Moths
2 Centre-barred Sallows
2 Beaded Chestnut
2 Straw Dot
One each of Red-green Carpet, Common Marbled Carpet, Burnished Brass form juncta, Rosy Rustic, Ruby Tiger, Snout and Silver Y.
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Silver Y, a seasonal immigrant in great numbers |
There were also three 'carpety' moths which I have yet to identify - probably faded Common or Dark Marbled Carpets but I wonder if one of them is a Streamer; and two 'grey-y' gents, or ladies, as my granddaughter would no doubt call them, whose ID I also need to track down. Here they are:
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These are the two 'grey-y' ones. I think they are two more Lunar Underwings:
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2 comments:
Wait a minute, isn't moth season ending, according to your own posts?
Is this apparent abundance of moths an illusion caused by your posts not mentioning the "boring" moths? Or does lumping several days' catches into one post make the moths seem more common?
My own insect-recording has been quite successful lately. The pool has caught a small handful of interesting insects. The "prize" among these is a notonectid backswimmer, which has stayed for at least three days and eaten drowned bugs without being killed by chlorine. Experiments on its predatory tendencies are so far unsuccessful but still pleasant.
Cheers
Ah, you can never predict safely, as you no doubt know. Hurricane Ophelia has attracted warm air up from Spain and Portugal, so we are doing nicely.
Glad your visitors are proving interesting
All best
M
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