Farnboro John
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Time for a bit of a catch up after a difficult week as my unit has been disbanded and I start at a new place on Monday - fortunately even closer to home. Managed to trap each night even though yesterday I was marking the end of the old gang with very considerable amounts of alcohol - just left it set up for Maz to just plug it in.
Found on the morning of 29 July:
18 moths of 13 species with a peak of 4 Shuttle-shaped Darts and only the second Lime-speck Pug of the year being the main so far identified interest. I do have photos of one moth I simply can't sort out, I'll put them up when my hangover is gone (mid-afternoon 31/7 it hasn't quite!) Edit: identified as Toadflax Brocade - tick! Thanks guys.
30/7 produced 24 individuals of 14 species. A Yellow Shell was unusual for me, Shuttle-shaped Darts reached 8, well ahead of everything else - the usual suspects in ones and twos.
Today (31/7) I checked the trap a good deal later than usual as I was trying to sleep through the worst of the results from the previous' day's excess. So some stuff may have figured a way out - only 19 individuals of 15 species were in it, with Common Rustic agg's 4 beating off all opposition. My first Copper Underwing (sp, though looking at the underwing it seemd to me it ought to be straight Copper Underwing) of the year was immaculately turned out, as was my first Marbled Beauty of the year, and a Ruby Tiger was nice as well.
John
Found on the morning of 29 July:
18 moths of 13 species with a peak of 4 Shuttle-shaped Darts and only the second Lime-speck Pug of the year being the main so far identified interest. I do have photos of one moth I simply can't sort out, I'll put them up when my hangover is gone (mid-afternoon 31/7 it hasn't quite!) Edit: identified as Toadflax Brocade - tick! Thanks guys.
30/7 produced 24 individuals of 14 species. A Yellow Shell was unusual for me, Shuttle-shaped Darts reached 8, well ahead of everything else - the usual suspects in ones and twos.
Today (31/7) I checked the trap a good deal later than usual as I was trying to sleep through the worst of the results from the previous' day's excess. So some stuff may have figured a way out - only 19 individuals of 15 species were in it, with Common Rustic agg's 4 beating off all opposition. My first Copper Underwing (sp, though looking at the underwing it seemd to me it ought to be straight Copper Underwing) of the year was immaculately turned out, as was my first Marbled Beauty of the year, and a Ruby Tiger was nice as well.
John
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