It was nice to have Keith’s company at Lound Lakes SWT site this evening. Running five traps from 6.30 to 8.30 produced about 80 moths of 17 species and the temperature held up around 10 deg. For me, new ones for the year were Shoulder Stripe and Pammene giganteana which was well spotted by Keith as we were packing up one of the traps and a good record for the site.
Full list was:-
Diurnea flagella
Agonopterix heracliana
Agonopterix alstromeriana
Torticodes alternella
Acleris ferrugana
Pammene giganteana
Yellow Horned
March Moth
Shoulder Stripe
Pale Brindled Beauty
Dotted Border
Engrailed
Common Quaker
Clouded Drab
Early Grey
Satellite
Chestnut
It was also an opportunity to try out a new actinic trap I made that does not need a control box and I was quite pleased with the results.
Brian