Just noted Liz's post: I had 21 Brindled Beauties last night, but 41 on the 21st April, so definitely a good year here (Llangeitho): this with my home-made approx. 4 watt LED light.
Others that appealed to me from last night's catch included singles of:
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| Least Black Arches |
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| Square Spot |
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| May Highflyer |
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| V-pug |
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| Red Twin-spot Carpet (I believe) |
75 moths of 23 species in all.
Is it a Brindled year? I caught 35 at Rhos Pil Bach with only an 18w synergetic on 24th, a cold clear night!
We ran a Robinson trap at Ynys-hir on Wednesday night and despite the very cold wind yesterday morning we recorded 23 species (only 2 of them micros). New to us this year were Brimstone Moth, Red Sword-grass, Oak-tree Pug, plus those below.
Tony & Ina
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| Frosted Green |
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| Purple Thorn |
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| Scalloped Hazel |
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| White-pinion Spotted |
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| Small Phoenix |
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| Clouded Silver |
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| Golden-rod Pug |
Good numbers of Great Prominent (11) and Engrailed (12) came to light in woodland in the Rheidol Valley on Friday night. Singles of Frosted Green, Early and Purple Thorn, Water Carpet, Grey Birch, Brown Silver Lines, Shoulder Stripe and Least Black Arches, and two Lunar Marbled Brown. And perhaps a faded Early Tooth-striped, released from a spider's web, with an ant attached to its leg. Only micros were Esperia sulpherella.
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| Engrailed |
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| Least Black Arches |
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| Grey Birch |
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| Frosted Green |
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| Possibly Early Tooth-striped, now ant-less |
A moonlit night revealed only 12 macro species, but included our first Pale Prominent and Lunar Marbled Brown for this year.
Carolyn & Evan
A Hummingbird Hawkmoth visiting the Pulmonaria in my garden yesterday...
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| Hummingbird Hawkmoth |
What we thought would be a good night produced only 53 moths of 14 macro species (not a micro in sight). New for us this year were: Lunar Marbled Brown (11), Brindled Beauty (4), Great Prominent (3), Pebble Prominent, Spruce Carpet, Lobster Moth, Brown Silver-line. Although the more common Spring species, Common Quaker, Small Quaker and Clouded Drab, were still present, their numbers were greatly reduced since our last visit 3 weeks ago.
Tony & Ina
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| Lobster Moth |
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| Brown Silver-line |
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| Great Prominent |
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| Brindled Beauty |
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| Pebble Prominent |
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| Spruce Carpet |
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| Lunar Marbled Brown |
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| Lunar Marbled Brown |
