Garden Trap - 17-10-12 - Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Well what a cracking night! on returning from the circus I found not one but two Merveille du Jour's sitting on the trap, a garden first, and in the pouring rain aswell! By this morning I was rewarded with 27 moths of 17 species which is pretty good for my garden at this time of year I would have thought, but being my first year trapping here I won't know until next August if this year is a base to go on.

Also new for my garden was 2x Red-line Quaker's and a lovely Dark Chestnut.

I have always said that rain does not seem to put moths off at all, it is always wind and temperature, infact some of my best catches have been in the rain.

No photos yet as it is just too dark again! but photos of the previous night will be on my previous post.

 

Catch Report -17-10-12 - Back Garden Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

2x Red-line Quaker [NFG]

2x Merveille du Jour [NFG]

1x Dark Chestnut [NFG]

1x Large Ranunculus 

1x Common Marbled Carpet

1x Large Yellow Underwing

1x Setaceous Hebrew Character

1x Lesser Yellow Underwing

1x Angle Shades

3x Green-brindled Crescent

1x Satellite

4x Chestnut

  
Micro Moths 

1x Acleris schalleriana [NFG]

4x Light Brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana 

1x Emmelina monodactyla

Merveille du Jour's

Chestnut & Dark Chestnut

Red-line Quaker

Acleris schalleriana