I have run the trap on Sunday night and Tuesday night and hopefully will run it again tonight.
On Sunday night the weather was quite cool and clear and so 5 moths was the only return for a lengthy spell of Mercury Vapor light.
But...things changed mid-week and instead of clear skies we got cloudy ones but then came the rain. Undeterred by this I still braved the trap up against the house with just a few eggs trays around it, as predicted by the morning everything was drenched.
28 moths of 17 species was a surprise indeed.
Highlights were 7 Plutella xylostella's (these are having a good year in my garden) a seldom seen Brick which I missed out on last year, a year first Sprawler and November Moth and two more cryptically patterned Acleris schalleriana.
Satellite was also a season first with one Orange Satellite and one White Satellite on each wing.
Catch Report - 12/10/14 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Blair's Shoulder-knot
1x Barred Sallow
Micro Moths
1x Amblyptila acanthadactyla
1x Epiphyas postvittana
1x Plutella xylostella
Catch Report - 14/10/14 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Brick [NFY]
1x Sprawler [NFY]
1x November Moth sp [NFY]
1x Lesser Yellow Underwing
1x Satellite
2x Yellow-line Quaker
2x Green-brindled Crescent
1x Snout
1x Common Marbled Carpet
1x Pink-barred Sallow
1x Grey Shoulder-knot
Micro Moths
2x Amblyptilia acanthadactyla
1x Epiphyas postvittana
2x Acleris schalleriana
7x Plutella xylostella
2x Acleris sparsana
Sprawler |
Satellite |
Brick |
Pair of Shoulder-knots |
Acleris schalleriana |
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