Many Micros

During 2019, a relatively new moth recorder in the north-east of Leics. set out to add lots of dots to the VC55 map. He did an incredibly fantastic job of it, running traps throughout the year spread out across the region, plus checking leaf-mines, adding dots to many previously innaccessible and/or underrecorded tetrads. Inevitably during this process he came across a lot of micros that were not immediately identifiable to him, and some these were collected and labelled for future scrutiny. I say some, but I think there are a good couple of 100 or more. Anyway, I offered to have a go at picking out anything identifiable without gen det, and segregating others for priority gen det. That was right at the end of November, and I knew it would not be something I could pick up immediately. As it happens, with the family break at Centreparcs the start of December, work commitments and Christmas they've been sat on my desk awaiting attention.

The main problem with these is going to be that they've been saved in small paper parcels, and some have more than one specimen inside. And I've got three plastic tubs full of them. I'm going to delve in this weekend and make a start; it will be interesting to see what's in there!

Anyway, whilst doing that I will be continuing to cause myself hearing damage with more of this type stuff what I have been listening to this week: