Surreybirder said:
Quiet again last night. I used my actinic trap and caught a few common sp. But my best moth was another suspected hoary footman caught at the security light at the front of our house.
I tried to photo the palps of a copper underwing agg - always a challenge with an autofocus camera. I don't know what this is but every one I've had checked has been Svensson's.
Ken
Ken
Following the chat we had about Svensson's/CU and photographing the palps, I promised you a picture. Last night I caught a CU, and am enclosing three photos:
1) Dorsal view, wings closed
2) palps - clearly pale. As I said, photographed face-on, with the camera barrel on the desk, and flash
3) Dorsal view, wing open: very obligingly it landed like this on the balcony wall when I let it go, showing some 'copper'. Stayed for a few minutes like this.
I'm also adding a Scarce Bordered Straw I caught last night, coz they're uncommon in the UK and you may not have seen one. I also got my first ever Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing last night, too. Pretty moth!!
I'm off to the Norwich again tomorrow for another 2 weeks on the UEA campus, so I hope I might get another haul of new species like I did in early July!!
Tonight's poor - I've only managed a Flame Shoulder and a Rustic so far. It was changeable all day - suuy, rainy, windy...and is only 16C now!!
very best
David