15th September...

Rhomboid Tortrix

Flounced Chestnut

10 degrees.
At last, a Flounced Chestnut, 2 weeks late, but no Red Green Carpet yet and I may have missed Autumnal Rustic this time...

Taxa
1042 Rhomboid Tortrix (Acleris rhombana) 1 NFY
1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 1
2092 Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta) 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 8
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes) 1
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum) 2
2134 Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa) 4
2265 Flounced Chestnut (Agrochola helvola) 1 NFY
2299 Mouse Moth (Amphipyra tragopoginis) 2
2343x Common Rustic agg. (Mesapamea secalis agg.) 1
2361 Rosy Rustic (Hydraecia micacea) 6
2364 Frosted Orange (Gortyna flavago) 5
2441 Silver Y (Autographa gamma) 1

34 moths of 13 sp.

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No 6 ...

Flounced Chestnut

These are common autumn moths in my garden, with 44 being trapped this year with a maximum one night count of 10 individuals on 15th September. To put this in some sort of context though, there have only ever been 118 individuals recorded in Northumberland with previous year totals throughout the county as follows - 

2010- 47 see above.

2009- 5 all also in my garden.

2008- 2

2007- 1

2006- 1

2005- 2

It seems incredible that one site can catch so many of what seems to be an unusual species in the county.... I will be interested to see if this happens in 2011.