One before the rains

Having watched the weather forecast showing a move to rain and northerly winds I decided to trap on 25th. Routine traps in my garden and wandered out to the Rendlesham Forest again where I provided a feast for the midges! Catches were not as good as might have been hoped for with 72 species at Rendlesham only two above that at home, though differing considerably. Very few Treble lines in the forest. Conifer feeders were Grey Pine Carpet, Spruce Carpet, Barred Red, Rhyacionia pinivorana and Cedestis subfasciella. No Pine Beauty though nor Pine Hawk-moth that I have taken at home this year. Common moths included Orange Footman, Buff-tip, Cream-spot Tiger, Brown Silver-line, Scalloped Hazel, Scorched Wing, Scoparia ambigualis, Carpatolechia proximella and Elachista canapennella. Interested to find the Coronet as a regular here and Tangham. Please to trap a Phyllonorycter trifasciella (the first I have seen) along with Argyresthia conjugella despite not having noticed the food plant in the vicinity. Also of interest were a Shoulder Striped Wainscot, a Clouded Bordered Brindle, a couple of Mompha raschkiella, several Monopis laevigella and four Coleophora species: striatipennella, albicosta, caespititiella and alticolella.

Catches in my garden were relatively straight forward but did get my first Brachmia inornatella for my site, a dark (not really melanic) Pale Oak Beauty and the first Lunar Yellow Underwing of the year.

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