Beccles Common

I ran my traps in the balmy heat on Beccles Common last night. This site has mixed woodland around the perimeter including large areas of birch, with gorse and broom on the sandy grassland where the golf course is.
Macro highlights were Gold Spot, Six-striped Rustic, Treble-bar, White-line Dart (many), Sallow Kitten, Vapourer and a few Grass Emerald from the gorse. An abundance of good mircos included Willow Ermine, Rush Veneer, Pyralis farinalis, Epinotia brunnichana, Hypatima rhomboidella, three Ypsolopha species – scabrella, parenthesella and what is possibly a sylvella as it had a very well-marked dark area (needs a second opinion). Also several Anacampsis and as they were all from under the birches, most probably blattariella. From the gorse area, Agonopterix nervosa & Batia lambdella. Just over the 100 species in 3 hours trapping, but as with others, the traps were literally heaving with moths and just about everything else with wings. The dust from the moth scales was so intense that it set me off on a bout of uncontrolled sneezing!

Brian

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