Extremely good numbers overall, even when discounting the locust-like Large Yellow Underwings.
No fun when every egg box has a pile of LYUs in each recess - there are 11 in this small space.
Another garden first micro was sadly not photographed before release -
Caloptilia robustella is relatively common and I hadn't realised it was a garden first.
Total catch a whopping 615 of 43sp.
- highest ever total of individuals in garden
(125W MV 238 of 34sp., 80W actinic 377 of 33sp. - highest total of individuals from a single trap in garden)
First for garden:
Caloptilia robustella 2
First for year in garden:
Rhomboid Tortrix (Acleris rhombana) 1
Pale Eggar (Trichiura crataegi) 1
Old Lady (Mormo maura) 2
Rosy Rustic (Hydraecia micacea) 1
Highest counts:
Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 350 [242 act, 108 MV]
Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes) 45 [34 act, 11 MV]
Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) 42 [23 act, 19 MV]
Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa) 31 [17 MV, 14 act]
Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 17 [11 MV, 6 act]
Other highlights:
Dark Sword-grass (Agrotis ipsilon) 1
Gold Spot (Plusia festucae) 4
Second Dark Sword-grass this year
Something oddly satisfying about having an Old Lady in your garden, even when they have obviously been around the block a bit like this one.
Pale Eggar
Rosy Rustic - a properly dull late summer noctuid
No fun when every egg box has a pile of LYUs in each recess - there are 11 in this small space.
Another garden first micro was sadly not photographed before release - Caloptilia robustella is relatively common and I hadn't realised it was a garden first.
Total catch a whopping 615 of 43sp. - highest ever total of individuals in garden
(125W MV 238 of 34sp., 80W actinic 377 of 33sp. - highest total of individuals from a single trap in garden)
First for garden:
Caloptilia robustella 2
First for year in garden:
Rhomboid Tortrix (Acleris rhombana) 1
Pale Eggar (Trichiura crataegi) 1
Old Lady (Mormo maura) 2
Rosy Rustic (Hydraecia micacea) 1
Highest counts:
Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 350 [242 act, 108 MV]
Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes) 45 [34 act, 11 MV]
Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana) 42 [23 act, 19 MV]
Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa) 31 [17 MV, 14 act]
Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) 17 [11 MV, 6 act]
Other highlights:
Dark Sword-grass (Agrotis ipsilon) 1
Gold Spot (Plusia festucae) 4
Second Dark Sword-grass this year
Something oddly satisfying about having an Old Lady in your garden, even when they have obviously been around the block a bit like this one.
Pale Eggar
Rosy Rustic - a properly dull late summer noctuid
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