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Sunday 7 May 2017

New moth for parish records

The last few days have seen a very slow increase in moth numbers, still low numbers mind. After 4 days of no moths (24th -27th April) I have taken several new for year species and this morning, in a total of 4, one new for parish records, a Mullein.
New for year species have been:
Common white wave (28th April)
Bright line brown eye (29th April)
Elaschista rufocinerea (1st May)
Flame shoulder (1st May)
Oak tree pug (3rd May)
Powdered quaker (5th May)
Common pug (6th May)
Mullein (6th May)
Nematopogon swammerdammella (6th May)

These additions take the year total to 62 species, made up of 46 macros and 16 micros. Even with the poor weather over the last fortnight, this is more than the total at this point for 2016.

Flame shoulder

Powdered quaker

Powdered quaker

Mullein

Mullein

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