The weather has turned again today once more, another storm this time coming up from France, in fact I think the wind today was worse than last weeks storm!
There is a glimmer of hope from tomorrow as the temperature recovers from todays measly 8 degrees high.
By Thursday it could feel quite warm again so I will hopefully partake in another field trip.
Last night was rather good with 20 moths of 14 species, with 3 new ones for the year.
Scorched Carpet was nice, as was a rather smart looking female Incurvaria masculella (With fine antennae and the ventral white dot like oehlmanniella, care is needed with this pair).
One moth was particularly interesting, my earliest ever Bryotropha species which I think is most likely to be basaltinella, if so it'll be a new species for my garden.
The moth will be dissected by Colin Plant shortly.
Still no Brindled Pug here... but lots of Oak-tree.
Cold tonight and possibly down to 2c with a horrible wind, i'm out.
Moth garden list for 2024 stands at 69 species
08/04/24 - Back Garden - Fordham - East Cambridgeshire - Actinic Trap
Macro Moths
Scorched Carpet 1 [NFY]
Double-striped Pug 3
Hebrew Character 1
Muslin Moth 1
Nut-tree Tussock 1
Oak-tree Pug 2
Pebble Prominent 1
Swallow Prominent 1
Micro Moths
Incurvaria masculella 1 [NFY]
Agonopterix alstromeriana 1
Bryotropha sp 1 (pos basaltinella) TBC not added to year list
Emmelina monodactyla 2
Epiphyas postvittana 3
Mompha subbistrigella 1
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| Bryotropha sp |
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| Incurvaria masculella |
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| Scorched Carpet |
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