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Saturday 9 April 2016

New moth for Parish records

After emptying the portable trap last night, with disappointing results (just 3 moths: engrailed, clouded drab and common quaker) I left the garden trap until this morning.
The temperatures which had promised a lot had dropped with the cloud cover disappearing, so not too optomistic as I wandered down the garden path this morning. However, first egg box showed both common quaker and a hebrew character, not a bad start. After this though, just another common quaker and what looked like a red chestnut. This would be a new moth for parish records and, once having checked the field guides, I was positive of the id.
Moth number 575 for my parish records and the 2nd new one this year. The red chestnut was my 305th parish macro, so still plenty to find as I hope to get to 600 species this year.
3 shots of the red chestnut, below.



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