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Just getting back into trapping after a 'pause' (when I lent my trap to a friend). This oak lutestring was pretty much the only one that wouldn't be classified as ultra-common.
SE Surrey on night of 23rd.
Numbers noticeably decreasing now, 55 moths of 12 species last night including my first ever Black Rustic so well pleased with that. One of the species that I've been expecting since I started trapping but has taken a long time to show up.
Numbers here in Mallorca are still pretty good.
Last night 215 specimens of 62 species, plus 14 specimens still to identify.
Nothing outstanding but things like Porter's Rustic and Radford's Flame Shoulder were amongst the catch.
Martin
This evening on our house window - I think this is the first time I've seen one of these and I couldn't find it in the moth book. Thanks to reading a post by Honeym above I think it's a Box Tree Moth (another alien species presumably becoming common in the London area?)
This evening on our house window - I think this is the first time I've seen one of these and I couldn't find it in the moth book. Thanks to reading a post by Honeym above I think it's a Box Tree Moth (another alien species presumably becoming common in the London area?)
Yes it is is+ quite widespread around London. Saw my first free flying one yesterday behind the London Wetland Centre after seeing a potted specimen two weeks ago taken in Acton.
Recently it's also been recorded at Dungeness + Portland where it's thought to have flown from France where it's also established.
I can only agree with what aeshna5 says.
Some people I know have been getting double figures of this species in their traps and a friend had several larvae on his garden Box in Earlsfield.
Was the LWC one outside the perimeter? If not, I'll add it to me list as we've had several already at LWC.
It's recently been recorded here in the Balearic Islands where I am trapping at the moment.
Martin
I can only agree with what aeshna5 says.
Some people I know have been getting double figures of this species in their traps and a friend had several larvae on his garden Box in Earlsfield.
Was the LWC one outside the perimeter? If not, I'll add it to me list as we've had several already at LWC.
It's recently been recorded here in the Balearic Islands where I am trapping at the moment.
Martin
It was just outside the perimeter of LWC on the estate to the north- probably c30 metres from the boundary. Saw another today on the north side of Chelsea Bridge.