I thought I would try again for Yellow-legged Clearwing and I was pleased when a clearwing came into the VES lure after about 30 minutes...only it was a Orange-tailed Clearwing. I had totally forgotten that this species comes to the same lure, so an unexpected bonus. Less thrilling was that the moth made a run for it before I had got any photos at all.
Also found in the day time was a larva of The Vapourer which had hitheto been unnoticed on the garden rose and was seemingly also attracted to the lure? A pretty cool caterpillar and the first for the garden.
Overnight trapping was dominated by micros with a strange absence of the commoner macros that were present in abundance a couple of days ago.
The eleven new moths for the garden over the day took the list to over the 150 mark. In a good year at Corbett Street I would be pushing 300 but 2016 hasn't been too great so far so I expect a somewhat lower return.
[146] Batia unitella
[147] Orange-tailed Clearwing
[148] Large Fruit-tree Tortrix
[149] Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix
[150] Pseudagyrotoza conwagana
[151] Marbled Orchard Tortrix
[152] Homoeosoma sinuella
[153] Endotricha flammealis
[154] Shaded Broad-bar
[155] Dot Moth
[156] Vapourer
Also found in the day time was a larva of The Vapourer which had hitheto been unnoticed on the garden rose and was seemingly also attracted to the lure? A pretty cool caterpillar and the first for the garden.
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| Vapourer Orgyia antiqua |
Overnight trapping was dominated by micros with a strange absence of the commoner macros that were present in abundance a couple of days ago.
The eleven new moths for the garden over the day took the list to over the 150 mark. In a good year at Corbett Street I would be pushing 300 but 2016 hasn't been too great so far so I expect a somewhat lower return.
[146] Batia unitella
[147] Orange-tailed Clearwing
[148] Large Fruit-tree Tortrix
[149] Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix
[150] Pseudagyrotoza conwagana
[151] Marbled Orchard Tortrix
[152] Homoeosoma sinuella
[153] Endotricha flammealis
[154] Shaded Broad-bar
[155] Dot Moth
[156] Vapourer
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| Pseudagyrotoza conwagana |
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| Homoeosoma sinuella |
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| Batia unitella |
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| Large Fruit-tree Tortrix Archips podana |
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| Barred Fruit-tree Tortrix Pandemis cerasana |
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| Marbled Orchard Tortrix Hedya nubiferana |
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