Number of species:
This month: 7
Wednesday 23 - Thursday 31 December 2009
Not quite the perfect end to the year, there was a slight let up in the cold weather over Christmas but I didn’t quite manage to get the trap out - can’t think what it was that distracted me…
Friday 18 - Tuesday 22 December 2009
Ta - dah!!!. Up and running agian - what a relief.
Thursday 17 December 2009
Snow, followed by sleety rain, clearing, -1°C, light breeze.
Ever the optimist, I figured that, in spite of the snow, the cloud cover might keep the temperature sufficiently high for a bit of moth activity. This morning I had difficulty even opening the trap as it was covered in a film of ice and all the components were frozen together - did catch something though!
Geometridae
- 1 Winter Moth Operophtera brumata Linn.
Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 December 2009
Very frosty and clear (on Wednesday, the temperature in the garden at 07:45 was -7°C).
Monday 14 December 2009
Damp at first, clearing, -2°C by dawn, still.
Well, at least it wasn’t a complete no-show.
Geometridae
- 1 Winter Moth Operophtera brumata Linn.
Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 December 2009
Too cold, wet and miserable.
Friday 11 December 2009
Mainly clear, 2°C, light wind.
Just because it wasn’t raining didn&rssquo;t mean that putting the trap out was a good idea.
Thursday 10 December 2009
Sallow Button - Acleris hastiana
Overcast at first, clearing, light wind, 9°C under cloud, falling to 4°C.
An entirely dry night, in spite of rain being forecast. I grabbed the opportunity knowing that the outlook for the next few nights is clear and frosty. Glad I did, if only for the particularly attractively marked Sallow Button (above).
Tortricidae
- 1 Sallow Button Acleris hastiana Linn.
Lasiocampidae
- 1 December Moth Poecilocampa populi Linn.
Geometridae
- 4 Winter Moth Operophtera brumata Linn.
- 2 Mottled Umber Erannis defoliaria Cl.
Noctuidae
- 1 Satellite Eupsilia transversa Hufn.
Sunday 06 - Wednesday 09 December 2009
Bit of rain, makes a change and the garden could probably do with it too.
Saturday 05 December 2009
Mottled Umber - Erannis defoliaria v2.0
Mainly overcast, showery, fairly windy, 7°C by dawn.
At last! A let up in the rain, well actually, it stopped raining for a brief period in the early evening, long enough for me to get the trap out and get it going without electrocuting myself.
Blastobasidae
- 1 Dingy Dowd Blastobasis adustella Walsingham
Tortricidae
- 1 Light-brown Apple Moth Epiphyas postvittana Walker
Lasiocampidae
- 3 December Moth Poecilocampa populi Linn.
Geometridae
- 1 Mottled Umber Erannis defoliaria Cl.
Tuesday 01 - Friday 04 December 2009
Ooooh, what a surprise… more rain! Apparently, November was the single wettest month on record for the UK as a whole - can’t say that I’m in any way surprised by that.
