Despite the heavy rain it was the mildest night of the year so far. I'm guessing a fair few months escaped before the morning check but there were a few interesting ones left over including four new for the garden:
[278] Agonopterix heracliana
[279] Syndemis musculana
[280] Brown Silver-line
[281] Lychnis
The Brown Silver-line was the first I've caught in Cottenham - a common species elsewhere but not round here it seems. Its larval food-plant is bracken which goes some way to explaining their scarcity in the fens.
Lychnis is however fairly regular in the area though and one of the more surprising absences last year in the garden
The was the first trapping result of the year with really any micros so I was a bit out of practice. The tortrix S. musculana I've only recorded once before in the village:
While this, to me at least, looks good for Agnopterix heracliana:
A couple of more micros new for the year:
[278] Agonopterix heracliana
[279] Syndemis musculana
[280] Brown Silver-line
[281] Lychnis
The Brown Silver-line was the first I've caught in Cottenham - a common species elsewhere but not round here it seems. Its larval food-plant is bracken which goes some way to explaining their scarcity in the fens.
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| Brown Silver-line Petrophora chlorosata |
Lychnis is however fairly regular in the area though and one of the more surprising absences last year in the garden
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| Lychnis Hadena bicruris |
The was the first trapping result of the year with really any micros so I was a bit out of practice. The tortrix S. musculana I've only recorded once before in the village:
While this, to me at least, looks good for Agnopterix heracliana:
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| Agonpterix heracliana |
A couple of more micros new for the year:
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| Notocelia cynosbatella |
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| Garden Pebble Evergestis forficalis |
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