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Tuesday 17 November 2015

Latest moth record for 2015

A visit to Millennium Wood yesterday gave views of the common Emmelina monodactyla as well as scarce umber. Latter is also a common moth, but not one I find regularly in the garden trap, so good to add this species to the year list. Constitutes 215th macro moth record for the year.
Later on, a visit to the trap at dawn showed it had been (for mid November,) a successful evening, with both mottled umber (shown below) and feathered thorn present.
Now up to a most satisfactory 5888 moth records for the year, made up of 424 different species. Be lucky to pass both 6000 and 430 species now, with very little left to find and with windy, wet and cold weather predicted, might be getting towards the end of the season. No plans to stop trapping yet, though!

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