Thought I was going to miss out on Frosted Green this year, but the first one turned up last night along with Swallow Prominent, another new for the year. But numbers again very low, just 20 moths of 11 species in 2 & half hours trapping, including 3 nice fresh Brindled Beauty but no micros again. Shoulder Stripe, Early Tooth-striped & Powdered Quaker were all new for the site. The occasional drizzly rain didn’t help and once again, as has been the norm for this month, everything got soaked.
A year ago (23rd April) on this same site I recorded over 30 species.
Brian
I am feeling very left out at the moment with exceptionally poor catches of only 2 to 4 Orthosias. Praying for a decent night which is thunderstorm free. Got a second pair of swallows returning though to join the other pair in my garage. No swallow prominents though. Nothing of interest in moths!