Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Numbers up

The garden traps brought a few more last night with the total catch up to 61 of 15sp.

0288  Caloptilia stigmatella  1 (NFY)
0303  Parornix anglicella  1 (NFY)
0483  Epermenia chaerophyllella  1 (NFY)
0688  Agonopterix heracliana  2
1497  Amblyptilia acanthadactyla  1
1524  Emmelina monodactyla  2
1663  March Moth (Alsophila aescularia)  2
1746  Shoulder Stripe (Anticlea badiata)  4
1862  Double-striped Pug (Gymnoscelis rufifasciata)  5
1917  Early Thorn (Selenia dentaria)  2 (NFY)
2187  Common Quaker (Orthosia cerasi)  16
2188  Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta)  3
2189  Twin-spotted Quaker (Orthosia munda)  1 (NFY)
2190  Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica)  16
2243  Early Grey (Xylocampa areola)  4

Epermenia chaerophyllella
Really pleased with this shot. It's not often a micro sits nice and still for outdoor photography in natural light - I'm finding that some moths still look too shiny with the ring-light I've been trying out.

Shoulder Stripe

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Shoulder stripe, you know better

Unknown said...

Sorry my mistake