..........And after the south-western quarter of the country has been plagued with exotic immigrant species. I at last managed one of the expected and surprisingly, it's taken me three years to get it on the list- even though it's seen better days........
1395 Rusty Dot Pearl Udea ferrugalis
The night of the 12th was yet again very good, with a smattering of micros as well. No sign of any NFY macros at present, but hopefully time to get three more.
The result- 12-10-11- Twin 15w Actinic/UV and Twin 25w FUL Actinic Skinners- 43 of 22 species-
- 0874 Blastobasis lacticolella 1
- 0998 Epiphyas postvittana Light Brown Apple Moth 2
- 1048 Acleris variegana Garden Rose Tortrix 2
- 1395 Udea ferrugalis Rusty Dot Pearl 1 Garden 1st
- 1413 Hypsopygia costalis Gold Triangle 1
- 1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
- 1745 Larentia clavaria Mallow 1
- 1760 Chloroclysta siterata Red-green Carpet 2
- 1937 Peribatodes rhomboidaria Willow Beauty 4
- 2092 Agrotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 5
- 2107 Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 2
- 2109 Noctua comes Lesser Yellow Underwing 1
- 2232 Aporophyla nigra Black Rustic 3
- 2240 Lithophane leautieri Blair's Shoulder-knot 2
- 2252 Polymixis flavicincta Large Ranunculus 1
- 2263 Agrochola lota Red-line Quaker 1
- 2264 Agrochola macilenta Yellow-line Quaker 3
- 2267 Agrochola lychnidis Beaded Chestnut 2
- 2274 Xanthia icteritia Sallow 2
- 2375 Rhizedra lutosa Large Wainscot 1
- 2389 Paradrina clavipalpis Pale Mottled Willow 4
- 2441 Autographa gamma Silver Y 1
Hi Matt, RDPs are scarce up here with the best annual count only 10 in 2004. So far this year I've had 22! Now wheres the biggie...
ReplyDeleteIt's a great migrant year Stewart- except no one told Bedfordshire about it!...........very little here really, I haven't even had a Dark Sword-grass.
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