GMS Week 3. A Garden First!

Yellow Horned - Garden First.

Pine Beauty

Diurnea fagella

Twin Spotted Quaker without spots! An unusually marked female. 

After two nights of rest, a mild start to last night ended with a cooler 4 degrees.

Still, Yellow Horned is a new species for the garden and one of my 'most wanted'...


Taxa
0663  Diurnea fagella  2 NFY
0688  Agonopterix heracliana  1
1659  Yellow Horned (Achlya flavicornis)  1 NEW
1663  March Moth (Alsophila aescularia)  1
1775  Mottled Grey (Colostygia multistrigaria)  2
1926  Pale Brindled Beauty (Phigalia pilosaria)  1
2139  Red Chestnut (Cerastis rubricosa)  1
2179  Pine Beauty (Panolis flammea)  1 NFY
2182  Small Quaker (Orthosia cruda)  4
2187  Common Quaker (Orthosia cerasi)  9
2188  Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta)  4
2189  Twin-spotted Quaker (Orthosia munda)  1 NFY
2190  Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica)  36
2256  Satellite (Eupsilia transversa)  2
2258  Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii)  5


71 moths of 15 sp.

Beauty-ful...

Trap on from 6pm - 11pm, temp down to 6 degrees by 11.15pm.

Taxa
0688 Agonopterix heracliana 4
1926 Pale Brindled Beauty (Phigalia pilosaria) 3
1934 Dotted Border (Agriopis marginaria) 2 NFY
2179 Pine Beauty (Panolis flammea) 1 different to yesterday's. Seems to be even brighter.
2258 Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii) 2

12 moths of 5 species.

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0688 Agonopterix heracliana

2179 Pine Beauty. Can't have too many pictures of this stunner.

1934 Dotted Border

Another, darker Dotted Border

Two early surprises...

A very mild February night for rural Northumberland last night. The trap was on from 6pm - 11pm and the temp was no lower than 8 degrees. As a result a few moths were caught including some early examples...

Taxa
0688 Agonopterix heracliana 1
1663 March Moth (Alsophila aescularia) 1
2139 Red Chestnut (Cerastis rubricosa) 1 NFY only 2 previous county Feb records.
2179 Pine Beauty (Panolis flammea) 1 NFY only 1 county Feb record.
2190 Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) 1 NFY
2258 Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii) 3

Trap only on from 6 pm - 11pm. Down to 8 degrees.
8 moths of 6 species...

2139 Red Chestnut

2179 Pine Beauty

2190 Hebrew Character