Friday Night Moths

Not a bad night last night in the moth trap. Light winds, a tiny bit of rain and temperatures down to 8ºC. There was plenty in the trap and I went through the contents with a few people from the Ceredigion Moth Group at a meeting we had today (I’ll blog about that separately).

There was quite a different collection of moths in the trap compared to last time I put it out with 10, possibly 11 new garden records for me:

  • 1x Bordered Sallow*
  • 2x Large Yellow Underwing
  • 1x Mottled Rustic*
  • 1x Yellow Shell*
  • 8x Lackey*
  • 11x Heart and Dart
  • 1x Green Carpet
  • 4x Elephant Hawkmoth
  • 1x Angle Shades
  • 1x Silver Y
  • 1x Small Elephant Hawkmoth
  • 1x Middle-barred Minor
  • 1x Flame
  • 3x Clouded-bordered Brindle
  • 2x Oligia sp.
  • 1x Ling Pug*
  • 1x Wormwood Pug*
  • 8x Dark Arches
  • 2x Shaded Pug
  • 4x Flame Shoulder
  • 1x Marbled Carpet
  • 1x Archers Dart*
  • 1x Brown Rustic
  • 1x Setaceous Hebrew Character
  • 3x Pale-shouldered Brocade
  • 1x Small Square Spot
  • 1x Foxglove Pug
  • 1x Small Seraphim
  • 3x Broom
  • 1x Pale Mottled Willow*
  • 1x Striped Wainscot
  • 1x Gold Spot
  • 1x Heart and Club
  • 1x Dusky Brocade

Here are some of the new ones, although I didn’t get photos of all of them today.

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Alan is a Freelance Website Designer, Sports & Exercise Science Lab Technician and full time Dad & husband with far too many hobbies: Triathlete, Swimming, Cycling, Running, MTBing, Surfing, Windsurfing, SUPing, Gardening, Photography.... The list goes on.

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