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Friday 24 June 2016

Busy Mothing period: Recent update

The list of moths for the year has now reached 199 species within the Little Hadham Parish. On the 21st June I set a new for year garden record of 58 moths of 36 species and this was almost beaten on the 22nd. Last night saw the bar move a little higher with 63 moths of 40 species. Still a long way to go to beat last years record of 210 moths of 82 species. Maybe a warm July night will get me close.
New for the year moths are daily at this time of the year and over the last 3 nights have been:
Micros:
Gypsonoma dealbana
Celypha roseceana
Agriphila straminella
Prays fraxinella (NFM, species number 596 for the parish records)
Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
Eudonia mercurella
Rhopobota naevana
(1 more TBC)

Macros:
Riband Wave
Rufous minor
Fern
Common footman
Common emerald
Elephant hawkmoth
Double square spot
Phoenix

Prays fraxinella

Common emerald


Phoenix

Flame

Elophila nympheata


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