Saturday 26 March 2011

Another quaker...

Powdered Quaker
A cooler night, last night, for the Garden Moth Survey, down to 4 degrees. Mainly overcast, light N1.

Taxa
1663 March Moth (Alsophila aescularia) 2
1775 Mottled Grey (Colostygia multistrigaria) 1
2139 Red Chestnut (Cerastis rubricosa) 2
2179 Pine Beauty (Panolis flammea) 1
2182 Small Quaker (Orthosia cruda) 1
2186 Powdered Quaker (Orthosia gracilis) 1 NFY
2187 Common Quaker (Orthosia cerasi) 24
2188 Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta) 18
2190 Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) 44
2258 Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii) 1

95 moths of 10 species

Not a sniff of a micro, not even an agonopterix...Powdered Quaker is about 2 weeks earlier than my first last year I think, nicest of the Quakers, a welcome find.

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