Best night of the year so far.

With the temperature still around 15 degrees at dusk last night, I was confident the 2 traps I put out last night would finally produce a good catch of moths, and was happy to be proven right!
23sp seen here, with numbers of the commoner Orthosias building up with Small quaker the most abundant (82 seen). More interesting species seen included: Oak beauty (12), Yellow horned (9), Agonopterix umbellana, Caloptilia elongella, Herald, Ypsolopha ustella (3), Early grey, Diurnea fagella (7), Engrailed (2), Water carpet and Calybites phasianipennella (2). Nice to see traps full of moths and also to see some micros.
Hopefully with more warm nights this week other species may be seen.

Neil

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