Numbers and the count right down at the moment, as well as the problem of Robins stealing some of my catch off the shed wall at 1st light. I had limited success last year putting out some of the kids rubber snakes! But the crafty birds seem to have wised up to this. Yesterday I saw a Robin dive in the trap and nick a Muslin Moth as I went to get my camera!
Despite all of this I managed 3 new for the year bringing the total to 80 species in the garden for 2011.
Cabbage Moth
1st of the year.
Nutmeg
1st of the year- 5 days earlier than last year, in VC30 early records for a good deal of species are falling all over the place....
Skin Moth Monopis laevigella 277
1st of the year.
The result- 31 of 13 species-
- Shuttle-shaped Dart- 11
- Hebrew Character- 4
- Flame Shoulder- 3
- Muslin Moth- 3
- Clouded Drab- 2
- Nutmeg- 1- Year tick
- Cabbage Moth- 1- Year tick
- White-shouldered House-moth- 1
- Skin Moth- 1- Year tick
- Brindled Pug- 1
- Pebble Prominent- 1
- Powdered Quaker- 1
- White Ermine- 1
