Saturday 23 February 2019

Early Spring Moths

A warm night in the last week of meteorological winter produced 13 macro species from our usual two traps.  These included the first of our two favourite early spring moths - Oak Beauty and Early Grey, this melanic Engrailed and a very dark-coloured Chestnut. Also new for this year were March and Early Moths.

Carolyn & Evan
Oak Beauty
Early Grey
Engrailed
Chestnut

1 comment:

  1. Early Grey do start to appear in late February but there were only 16 county records in February up to last year. It is amazing how species manage to co-ordinate their emergence, Pete had his first for the year at Llanarth last night.

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