What appeared to be a colder night than late actually turned out to be a good moth night, with 32 species represented, of 45 moths. New for the year were smoky wainscot,
Epiphyas postvittana and
Gypsonoma sociella.
Other surprise moths were two 2nd generation early thorns and 3 nut tree tussocks. Waves were well represented with riband wave, dwarf cream wave, single dotted wave and treble brown spot, as well as a least carpet.
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| early thorn |
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| short cloaked moth |
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| Yponomeuta evonymella |
These additions take the running total for 2014 to 147 macros and 66 micros, and in total, I have trapped 1297 moths in the garden this year.
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