While the cat's away.....04/06

This morning I had to get away early to do some Beds Bird Atlas work in the North of the county. So in my haste, I left the kids in charge of recording numbers and retaining interesting species............And despite the kids being the tender ages of 7 and 6, they coped quite well. Even adding 2 more Macro species to the garden list! By the time I got back the fridge was full of over 20 pots of unidentified moths- a really good effort.

Clouded Brindle

Garden 1st.

 Barred Straw

Garden 1st.

The List, as compiled by Keely & Louie for 04/06- 133 of 29 species-

• 2321 Apamea monoglypha Dark Arches 28- Previous best 5! 
• 2089 Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 54- This beats my best record by 23! 
• 2333 Apamea anceps Large Nutmeg 9 
• 1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 2 
• 1428 Aphomia sociella Bee Moth 1 
• 1834 Eupithecia vulgata Common Pug 2 
• 1707 Idaea seriata Small Dusty Wave 1 
• 2337x Oligia strigilis agg. Marbled Minor agg. 4 
• 1981 Laothoe populi Poplar Hawk-moth 1 
• 2098 Axylia putris Flame 4 
• 1301 Grass Moth 1 ?
• 2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 1
• 2107 Noctua vulpes vulpes 'Fox' Underwing 3- Louie calls the reddish ones by this name!
• 1728 Xanthorhoe fluctuata Garden Carpet 1 
• 2126 Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 2 
• 2160 Lacanobia oleracea Bright-line Brown-eye 1 
• 1758 Eulithis pyraliata Barred Straw 1 Garden 1st 
• 1931 Biston betularia Peppered Moth 1 
• 1063 Celypha striana 3 
• 2302 Rusina ferruginea Brown Rustic 2 
• 2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 1 
• 2088 Agrotis clavis Heart and Club 3 
• 2387 Caradrina morpheus Mottled Rustic 2 
• 2381x Hoplodrina alsines/blanda Uncertain/Rustic 2 
• 2384 Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 1 
• 2327 Apamea epomidion Clouded Brindle 1 Garden 1st