Still the occasional Dingy and Scarce Footman, Common and Garden Carpet. Have the Red Underwing, Frosted Orange, Feathered Gothic and lots of Vine’s Rustic and Snout but not got into the Chestnuts or Autumn Quakers yet. All the Yellow Underings; Lunar, Lesser, Large, Least, Broad-bordered and Lesser Broad-bordered still around. Pleased to pick up a Square-spotted Clay. And a few but not many micro’s around; Breckland Plume, Chilo phagmitella, Bactra robustana, Clavigesta purdeyi, and Cochylidia implicitana to name some nice ones. Silver Y decreasing from its peak. Looks like some warm weather on the way for a while.
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What’s a Breckland Plume
Crombruggia distans is called Breckland Blume in Colin Hart’s book and the new micro book. Should I use the scientific name for all micros?
It’s up to you. I doubt I’ll know what you’re talking about if you use English names for micro-lepidoptera – but others might.
I too have taken all the ‘yellow underwings’ this week including three specimens of Orbona. In the much reduced catch this morning (70 species) were late examples of Swallow Prominent and Poplar Hawk-moth. Still a few straminella, tristella, falsella and geniculea hanging around. Feathered Gothic in good numbers and a few Dusky and Canary-shouldered Thorns, Frosted Orange and Centre-barred Sallow adding to the colour.