A Warm Spell..............

...............gave me a chance to turn the lights on again. Though as I write this, its back down to 2°C. Most productive was the nights of 15th and 17th, though macro moths are certainly slow. By this time last year I had double my current tally, so targets for the next week or so are Pale Brindled Beauty, Early Moth and Dotted Border.

March Moth

1 of 3 caught so far...........

688 Agonopterix heracliana

695 Agonopterix alstromeriana

1025 Tortricodes alternella

Combined catch for 15/16/17-02-12. Upper Caldecote Garden- 12 of 6 species

• 0688 Agonopterix heracliana  5 NFY
• 0695 Agonopterix alstromeriana 1 NFY 
• 1025 Tortricodes alternella 1 NFY 
• 1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1 NFY 
• 1663 Alsophila aescularia March Moth 3 NFY 
• 2259 Conistra ligula Dark Chestnut 1

Recent Micro Highlights Pt 3......

 I haven't trapped in the last 2 days as we went away to Aldborough in Suffolk for the weekend. The only mothing highlight was seeing a a Hummingbird Hawk-moth nectaring on Lavender whilst I enjoyed a lovely pint of Adnam's Southwold Bitter outside the Brudenell Hotel on the sea front.

Anyway, enough of that........ here's the last of the micros, to bring me more or less up to date. Just a few common ones I've yet to get a shot of- like Mother of Pearl.........

240 Case-bearing Clothes Moth Tinea pellionella

Probably.......8th July.

706 Agonopterix nervosa

Rare in VC30, only the 17th record, 8th July.

 898 Limnaecia phragmitella

Garden 1st, 10th July.

1159 Holly Tortrix Rhopobota naevana

Garden 1st, 10th July.

 1336 Eudonia pallida

NFY, 11th July.

695 Agonopterix alstromeriana

NFY, 15th July.

1245 Grapholita janthinana

NFY, 15th July.

Macro Drought.....

No new macros since 13th and numbers have been low. Still large amounts of Turnip Moth, Common Wainscot and Shuttle-shaped Dart. This must be the lag before the 'Autumn Collection' is launched!

On the 17th, 3 new micros turned up to keep me interested.............

Agonopterix alstromeriana (695)

 

Skin Moth Monopis laevigella (227) 

 Tinea trinotella (247)

 Riband Wave

Heart and Dart

Straw Dot