This year I decided to overhaul my lists. For some time I have suspected their inaccuracy and I wasn't wrong!
In my garden lists, it turned out that I had omitted three Macros and
27 Micros! There are still a few outstanding gen dets for
2017. But, at the time of writing this, my life totals are
382 Macros and
377 Micros, so a healthy total of
759 species; not bad considering I only started recording in
2009.
I have also switched my life lists from the limited Blogger pages to externally linked Google Sheets (tabs in the right hand column). I should have done this years ago, as it gives far more information and is much easier to edit. I'm glad I did it, but it was a bit of a saga, mainly due to the huge changes that have taken place in recent years. Taxonomic order, names and the switch from
Bradley/Fletcher to the '
ABH 2013 Checklist' codes have certainly caused headaches!
In
2017, I recorded
481 species (
475 Macro,
206 Micro) from
5518 records on
200 trap nights, down from
220 trap nights last year. June was my most productive month, with
262 species caught from
24 dates. Unsurprisingly, January was the least productive, with just three species from two dates.
The year's top ten most abundant species were-
73.291
Mythimna pallens Common Wainscot 900
63.115
Acentria ephemerella Water Veneer 894
73.342
Noctua pronuba Large Yellow Underwing 871
73.359
Xestia c-nigrum Setaceous Hebrew Character 809
73.325
A
grotis puta Shuttle-shaped Dart 717
73.317
Agrotis exclamationis Heart and Dart 538
63.080
Chrysoteuchia culmella Garden Grass-veneer 467
73.244
Orthosia cerasi Common Quaker 401
73.099
Hoplodrina ambigua Vine's Rustic 379
73.249
Orthosia gothica Hebrew Character 312
Common Wainscot
Moving up from 9th place. A 203% increase on last year!
Micros
This year I recorded
206 species, this was only the fifth best total after the record breaking
230 last year. I recorded
18 new species. Gen dets were all carried out by David Manning.
35.036
Chrysoesthia sexguttella-
23/04- 16th county record
04.076
Ectoedemia decentella-
28/05- 8th county record, Gen det. DVM
12.012
Triaxomera parasitella-
28/05- 20th county record
49.138
Cochylis molliculana-
16/06- 26th county record, probably overlooked
20.022
Argyresthia bonnetella-
17/06- Common
35.148
Carpatolechia fugitivella-
19/06- 19th county record.
04.072
Bohemannia quadrimaculella-
19/06- 2nd County record after the first in 2015
37.007
Coleophora flavipennella-
19/06 Gen det. DVM (Not pictured)
37.053
Coleophora betulella-
19/06 Gen det. DVM (Not pictured)
49.094
Phtheochroa sodaliana-
21/06- 2nd county record after the first in 2014
35.159
Exoteleia dodecella-
26/06- 13th county record
49.180
Piniphila bifasciana-
29/06- Common
49.269
Eucosma campoliliana-
17/07- Common
15.003
Caloptilia populetorum-
18/07- 3rd county record
49.225
Spilonota laricana-
18/07- Gen det. DVM (Not pictured)
37.033 Coleophora trifolii- 19/07- Common
35.117
Scrobipalpa atriplicella- 16/08- 21st county record, Gen det. DVM
15.040
Phyllonorycter messaniella- 27/10- Common (Not pictured)
Chrysoesthia sexguttella
Ectoedemia decentella
Triaxomera parasitella
Cochylis molliculana
Argyresthia bonnetella
Bohemannia quadrimaculella
