Moths can be a bit like buses…no Beaded Chestnuts recorded
in the parish then 82(!) turn up together…
It was almost the same with another new species, Pink-barred
Sallow, with an impressive 49 in the Magic Garden traps last night...
I actually wasn’t too hopeful coming out of a party Friday
night as it was clear and cold but in the end it was a good catch with almost
200 moths of 26 species including at least nine new ones for the parish. This
included this lovely Lunar Underwing…
Together with a Barred Sallow, a scarce moth this far north
in Yorkshire…
Red-green Carpet (stunner!)…
Dusky-lemon Sallow…
Green-brindled Crescent…
Red-line Quaker…
And Chestnut…
We also caught a couple of Green Carpets last night but
interestingly they were tiny…
Much smaller than the individuals we caught earlier in the
season. Is this a feature of the later fliers?
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