Given the temperature didn’t drop below 15 degrees last night, my trap here was pretty empty, with 46 moths of 12 species present. Thought there might be more about but I see from the Atropos ‘flight arrivals’ blog that the same was noticed at many other sites across the country last night too. I guess its just down to the lateness of the season now, there just aren’t the species numbers out there to catch anymore (around here anyway, seems to be plenty still around Bawdsey in Matthew’s traps). Nothing unusual seen in the catch, of interest to others maybe but common here were 4 Streak. Single Setaceous hebrew character is a late record for me. Only seen 2 November moth agg. so far this year, more to come later I’m sure. Commonest moth still Chestnut with 20 seen.Were there low numbers in other people’s traps too?
Neil
I left the trap out all night because of the forecast of very mild conditions but I think it stayed clear right through the night. A Silver Y soon after dark made me optimistic but in the morning there were only 10 species in the trap including Red-green Carpet and Feathered Thorn. I was hoping for more.
Mark
Yet to see a Chestnut here Neil!