I continue to run my moth trap around 3 times a week here in Stevenage, North Herts.
I have mostly been using my Actinic, with pretty poor results, although night time temperatures last week did dip as low as 4c.
Last night however I ran the MV Robinson trap instead and was rewarded with 13 moths of 9 species, not a lot compared to some folk recently, but about as good as it gets here.
Highlights were two new species for the year, and 3 fresh season first Red-green Carpet, which were all differently marked.
Both new for years species were extremely washed out, not the same could be said for one of the Red-green Carpets though!
I also trapped two late micro moths, Celypha lacunana and Carcina quercana, the latter my latest record ever.
When I was potting up one of the Green-brindled Crescent's, it jumped into a defensive posture and stayed like it for quite some time, before flying off, four years ago, I experienced this defensive mechanism with a Satellite, and wrote an article in the Entomological Record & Journal of Variation.
I can only assume that it was playing dead and trying to avoid being the next snack!
Garden species count for 2020 now upto 487.
Catch Reports - Back Garden - Stevenage - North Herts
16/10/20 - 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
November Moth 2 [NFY]
Red-line Quaker 1 [NFY]
Chestnut 1
Common Marbled Carpet 1
Green-brindled Crescent 2
Red-green Carpet 3
Micro Moths
Carcina quercana 1
Celypha lacunana 1
Epiphyas postvittana 1
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