Long awaited Autumn species

Finally some moths to perk up what has been a long, dire, period. Although conditions still not ideal. Some nights I have switched off the traps early like on the 4th when I caught a Satellite. On the 5th 46 species including podana, White-spotted Pug and Knot-grass. But the real flurry came on the10th with 48 species including; Dark Arches( not seen for ages), D. forficella, Shore Wainscot, Sallow, Brindled Green, Brown-spotted Pinion, Lunar Under-wing, Black Rustic and Yellow-line Quaker. Back on August 27th 2 Red Under-wings the highlights, these are the only nights trapped at home during this poor spell since my last blog.

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One Response to Long awaited Autumn species

  1. Neil says:

    Well done on catching some autumnal species Keith.
    Its been pretty awful here this week, many cold clear nights so just haven’t bothered to trap. Cloud all day yesterday until evening then it disappeared, much to my annoyance! Ran 2 traps anyway in the woods to see what was about. Not much different since I last trapped, I am really starting to wonder where the autumnal species are. Only new species that I would call autumnal was a single Feathered ranunculus. Only 22sp in 2 traps, rubbish!

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