Ran both a 125w MV plus the twin 30w actinic traps in the garden Thursday night, and between them they produced my highest species count of the year so far – 81sp. Best moth a Rosy marbled in the 125w, a scarce species at this site. Other notables for IGC included Pammene albuginana, Small elephant hawk (4 – seems to be having a good year), Taleporia tubulosa, Heart and club (first for year), Blastodacna hellerella, Alder moth (dark form) and Monopis crocicapitella. On my theme of Heart and darts, 7 seen, mainly in the actinic. My only migrant a single Plutella xylostella, and that may have only ‘migrated’ from my vegetable patch where they can be a common sight!
Seeing the numbers of species and moths that the recorders have been catching on the coast in the last week seems to give more evidence to the theory that the torrential rain of last year that fell over this site in the summer did have an impact on the moth populations here. Time will tell as the summer progresses, maybe the moths are a bit slower coming out inland. Certainly not getting any of the canopy feeding tortrix yet that are normally abundant here.
Neil
Rosy marbled