More new species after a warm day.

Last night (Friday) I tried one of my sites alongside the river Waveney that has produced poor results so far this year. Although the sky was clear the temperature stayed around 9 deg. and the results were reasonable with 10 species new for 2016 among the catch. These included Common Wave, Small Phoenix, Currant Pug, Puss Moth, Red Twin-spot Carpet and micros –  S. musculana, Garden Pebble, Elachista canapennella and C. proximella. Good numbers of Early Tooth-striped and Brindled Beauty came to the lights. 27 species in total and I expect the warm day contributed to the emergence of some of them. Sure to be more over the weekend.

Brian

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  1. Raymond Watson says:

    Yes things are beginning to look up a bit. My catches are now into the 20s for species counts and I have taken a Northern Drab (local saltmarsh form). Very late, but pleased me to see it, I wonder if the Orthosias might have a second attempt. Powdered Quaker seems to be doing well everywhere though.

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