Last nights catch, just two moths, a Chestnut and a Hebrew Character.

Chestnut

Hebrew Character

Both in UV moth trap in my back garden, Sarnau (SA44)

Red-green Carpet

Last night we ran 2 small actinic lights in some woodland close to the coast at Wallog. One of the traps caught 11 Chestnut and no other species. The other had Chestnut (8), Early moth (2), Dotted Border, Satellite, and Red-green carpet. Normally only the females of Red-green carpet over-winter and are usually seen in low numbers in April and May. There are 8 other county records for January and February, is it possible that some of these were males?
Tony & Ina

Early moth

Red-green carpet

Satellite

Talybont in February

Well here's a contrast for you.
After the number of moths in woodland yesterday we had the massive total of three moths in the garden last night.  More frogs in the pond than moths in the trap! (Should have photographed the spawn).  We did however have Common Quaker that was not in the previous night's catch.
Ina and Tony

Chestnut

Common Quaker

Pale Brindled Beauty

Ynys-hir in February

The first mild night for a while was very kind to us as far as moths were concerned.
Two of Tony's target favourites turned up...(hope you like the alliteration!) Oak Nycteoline and Small Brindled Beauty.  Other species were Pale Brindled Beauty, Spring Usher, Dotted Border, Chestnut, March Moth, Oak Beauty, Mottled Grey, Clouded Drab, Hebrew Character, Satellite and 2 Pugs Double-striped and Brindled
Micro species; Tortricodes alternella (181 almost one third of the catch), Acleris literana, A.cristana, A.ferrugana and/or A.notana, Agonopterix ocellana and yeatiana, Ypsolopha ustella.
Thirteen macro species and 7 or 8 micros.  In total we had 547 individuals 254 of these were in a 6w bucket in woodland, habitat is everything.
Ina and Tony.

Acleris cristana

Acleris literana

Agonopterix ocellana

Agonopterix yeatiana

Clouded Drab

March Moth

Oak Nycteoline

Small Brindled Beauty

Small Brindled Beauty

A warmer night at last brought out more moths.  The high spot for us was our second Small Brindled Beauty, over two weeks earlier than our first two years ago from the same oak woodland.  There were six other species in this trap including Spring Usher, Pale Brindled Beauty, Dotted Border, Satellite, and the micro Tortricodes alternella.  The most numerous was Chestnut (57).

The four species in our garden trap included this early Hebrew Character.

Carolyn & Evan

Small Brindled Beauty

Satellite (white and orange forms)

Tortricodes alternella

Hebrew Character

Engrailed

Even though my success rate is low at the moment, I still check lights on buildings to see if they have attracted anything overnight. Today in Aberystwyth: two Early Moths and a surprise Engrailed:

Llanarth Garden

A milder night brought out a few moths :-

Pale Brindled Beauty

Mottled Umber

Winter Moth

An Early Moth from a few nights ago.