Saturday, 21 May 2011

Shears

Shears

Common Marbled Carpet ( orange type)
Down to a baltic 6 degrees here last night and clear until the early hours when clouded over. Breezy too. I hear that there are places in the UK where it has been warm, calm and rain free lately? Can't imagine that, can you?


Taxa
1727  Silver-ground Carpet (Xanthorhoe montanata)  2
1728  Garden Carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata)  1
1750  Water Carpet (Lampropteryx suffumata)  1
1764  Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata)  1
1920  Scalloped Hazel (Odontopera bidentata)  2
1994  Buff-tip (Phalera bucephala)  1
2060  White Ermine (Spilosoma lubricipeda)  2
2063  Muslin Moth (Diaphora mendica)  3
2089  Heart and Dart (Agrotis exclamationis)  2
2092  Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta)  3
2102  Flame Shoulder (Ochropleura plecta)  1
2123  Small Square-spot (Diarsia rubi)  1
2147  Shears (Hada plebeja)  1 NFY
2173  Lychnis (Hadena bicruris)  2
2188  Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta)  1
2334  Rustic Shoulder-knot (Apamea sordens)  1
2450  Spectacle (Abrostola tripartita)  1


26 moths of 17 sp. No Hebrew Characters!

Its blowing a hooly here now but still mild so I might try and anchor the trap. This could end up costly....

9.20pm Chickened Out. Put trap away, trees bending outside now....
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5 comments:

  1. Broom Birder21 May 2011 at 21:25

    Stewart, It's interesting you have noted the 'orange type' C M Carpet. I actually posted a dark type a few nights ago as I deemed it notable. I almost always get the Orange ones and in fact have only ever recorded 3 dark ones in 3 years. Nice Shears- for some reason I'm beating them off with sticks this year........

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  2. Stewart21 May 2011 at 23:52

    Hi Matt, yes I mostly get the orange ones in the late brood in the autumn. Early ones like the dark one I had the other day are rarer...As for Shears I get a few, but not many...

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  3. Anonymous22 May 2011 at 05:53

    Blowing a bit down here down yesterday evening as well. A single Small Magpie was all i could muster, last night.

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  4. Bennyboymothman23 May 2011 at 18:29

    Beating them off with sticks, never had a Shears, sob! yes some of the CMC's look very much like DMC's!

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  5. Emma Anderson26 May 2011 at 08:08

    The recent weather has been a real disappointment after the early summer we enjoyed in April.

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