Start of September at IGC – numbers going down.

Numbers of moths in the traps here have steadily declined as the week has progressed, from 80sp in 2 MV’s on the 3rd down to 49sp last night in the twin 30w and an MV. Surprised to find lower numbers in the traps this morning considering how warm it had been yesterday. Even Light emerald that has been very common here dropped to only 10 caught rather than the 50+ I had been getting.
Still plenty of brown coloured species of moths being caught, with only a few minor highlights for the site seen including my first Heath rustic for the year (3rd), another Centre-barred sallow, Crambus hamella, Ling pug (I would consider this a late sighting), Peppered (again I would say this is a late record), Square-spotted clay and an Old lady (in an MV trap). Feathered gothic numbers have been much better this year than previous years with a high count of 30 seen on the 3rd.
No Sallows apart from Centre-barred have appeared here yet, and no Brindled green but I’m sure they won’t be far away from appearing now. Ivy flowers now starting to swell so won’t be long now before its time to start checking those.
Only other sighting I’ve had this week was the discovery of 2 larvae of Beautiful yellow underwing on Heather.

Neil

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