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March 2009 moths (1 Viewer)

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Ken Noble
Last night was mild and cloudy, though rather breezy. The Orthosia species are starting to show in numbers:

Tortricodes alternella 7
March moth 3
pale brindled beauty 1
small brindled beauty 2
Common quaker 5
small quaker 29
Hebrew character 2
Chestnut 2 (nfy)
satellite 3

Ken
 

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A good turnout last night with the following species

1x Oak Beauty [NFG]
1x Chestnut
3x Common Quaker [NFY]
1x Clouded Drab [NFY]
2x Satellite
1x Agonopterix heracliana
3x Hebrew Character

pics in my blog :)
 
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Far too windy down here! The actinic bulb blew off the trap last night, luckily it didn't break. Tonight it's F8 blowing right in the garden. Can only get better ... I hope.

Nerine
 
Following on from my catch on the 7th a possible Lead-coloured Drab was confirmed, so very chuffed indeed! thats 11 new species for my checkbooks already this year, looks on course to be a good'un!
 
Hi Ken
Yes, here it is, theres a better pic on my blog, but this shows the feathered antennae better
 

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Last night was mild again:
Unknown micro (Agonopterix heracliana?)
Tortricodes alternella 4
March moth 3
Yellow horned 2
small brindled beauty 2
Common quaker 9
small quaker 41
Hebrew character 1
Chestnut 1

One of the yellow horned was very dark, though my photo doesn't really show this.
Ken
 

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A good night here with 2 new species for the garden and a new for year and yes very mild here too.

1x Twin-spotted Quaker [NFG]
2x Small Quaker [NFY]
1x Emmelina monodactyla
2x Agonopterix heracliana
1x Oak Beauty
4x Common Quaker
4x Hebrew Character
1x Grey Shoulder-knot [NFG]
2x Clouded Drab
1x Pale Pinion
 
I really thought i'd be in with a good chance of catching last night but i blanked yet again. I'll try again today as the weather seems to be similar to last night.
 
Just one moth in the trap this morning, despite the very mild conditions. It's a very dark Lead-coloured Drab. Not quite annual in the garden.

I've been getting a few A. heracliana/ciliella to lit windows and decided to check one out. After two days in the freezer it woke straight up and flew around strongly. One tough moth.
 

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I really thought i'd be in with a good chance of catching last night but i blanked yet again. I'll try again today as the weather seems to be similar to last night.

ditto, and yet the night before when it was almost below freezing i got a common quaker. just goes to show!

that's the only thing i've caught in march so far - did get a march moth on the last two nights of feb.
 
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I'm not getting anything either - nothing in the trap last night (apart from a whole load of tiny slugs) although the wind had dropped and it was fairly mild. I did have what I suspect might be Agonopterix heracliana on a lit window early yesterday evening. I'll try again tonight.

Nerine
 
This time last year I had had only 2 Quakers and a white-shouldered house moth, this year to date its 24 species and over 100 moths, how bizarre is that! the trap is the same aswell.

Last summer was pretty good for species though so maybe it might be a quieter time of year for me this year!

I live in a village with no immediate woodland.
 
I caught a tiny slug aswell!! Hopefully this year will be a good moth year, its been pretty good for some already (bennyboymothman?)
 
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