A very pleasing catch last night Warm and breezy conditions are the flavour recently with highs of 18 degrees and a mixture of sunshine and showers but with these warm conditions finally moths are rearing their heads again and after a few poor catches recently of just a handful of moths, it was all systems go this morning with 28 moths of 18 species. 3 new species were added to the yearly list and other highlights included three migrant species, Scarce Bordered Straw (the 2nd for the garden), Silver-Y (47th this year) and Udea ferrugalis (5th this year). The Scarce Bordered Straw was a vey tiny individual and could well be a British grown off-spring and not a true migrant at all.

With the warmth continuing to push in from the near continent things are set to be even milder ino the weekend.

Traps out people as it's also National Moth Weekend.

Catch Report - 10/10/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap

Macro Moths

1x Brick [NFY] 1x Blair's Shoulder-knot [NFY] 1x November Moth sp [NFY] 2x Barred Sallow 2x Chestnut 1x Dusky Thorn 1x Feathered Thorn 3x Green-brindled Crescent 5x Large Yellow Underwing 1x Lesser Yellow Underwing 1x Mallow 1x Scarce Bordered Straw 2x Shuttle-shaped Dart 1x Silver-Y

Micro Moths

1x Acleris sparsana 1x Blastobasis adustella 2x Epiphyas postvittana