Even better at Monks Hole / Scale Marsh

Back at this site at St Olaves last night after a cool ,cloudy, dull, breezy day. I had no expectations regarding a catch for this night and could easily have turned back home on arrival after a brief inspection of the marshes, where I wanted to focus my trapping, which were quite exposed and not sheltered as I’d been hoping. Conditions were breezy, cloudy and around 11c, just a little lower than the daytime temperature. The woods were pretty still though, where Brian set up, so we stayed. One or two of the exposed marsh traps did little or nothing but a couple did ok with one doing particularly well late on in the night. At a couple of the woodland traps moths were in typical number for the time of season which was very nice to see. Among the macros were Alder Moth, Flame Wainscot, Light Emerald, Peppered, Lychnis, Birch Mocha, Purple-bar, Common-marbled Carpet, Ochreous Pug. Moths in large numbers were, Common White Wave, Orange Footman, May High-flyer, Brown Silver-lines, Scorched Wing, Green Carpet. The best moths were in the micros, though, with 16 species recorded including Clepsis spectrana, N. swammerdamamella, N. schwarziellus, Ancylis mitterbacheriana, Argyresthia conjugella. Nascia cilialis was the second best record to Lampronia fuscatella. In total, 72 species on the night.

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One Response to Even better at Monks Hole / Scale Marsh

  1. Brian says:

    I kept a fairly accurate tally of the numbers of each species and it was around the 300 mark, which is more like it should be for early June. And we worked late shift trying to put ID’s to all of them.

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