I've never had five species in January - let alone five macros. To cap it all I've had another Early Moth on a window this evening.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Macro Five
This January is unprecedented for me / my garden! Last night I had another couple of moths to lit windows - one was another Winter Moth, the other was this ....
I've never had five species in January - let alone five macros. To cap it all I've had another Early Moth on a window this evening.
I've never had five species in January - let alone five macros. To cap it all I've had another Early Moth on a window this evening.
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Last year I had only one trap session in Jan and caught 4 moths of 2 sp ( December Moth 3, Chestnut 1) This year I'm on 6 moths of 6 sp including 2 I didnt get at all in 2010. Cant be bad...
Last year I didn't record a single moth in the garden until 4th March, and had only picked up 5 macro species by the end of March!
In fact, prior to this year these are the only January garden records I have - all of singles and all at lit windows / domestic lighting other that the monodactyla which came to MV light.
06-Jan-2002 Winter Moth
13-Jan-2002 Winter Moth
26-Jan-2003 Emmelina monodactyla
27-Jan-2003 Pale Brindled Beauty
01-Jan-2004 Agonopterix heracliana
22-Jan-2006 Early Moth
Hehe, the race is on, although you will overtake me when your garden gets better during spring, as I have no garden!
6 species so far!
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