17/03/11...0 degree min with a frost before midnight. Clear sky.

Taxa
1926 Pale Brindled Beauty (Phigalia pilosaria) 1
2182 Small Quaker (Orthosia cruda) 1
2187 Common Quaker (Orthosia cerasi) 2
2188 Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta) 1
2189 Twin-spotted Quaker (Orthosia munda) 1
2190 Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) 12

20 moths of 7 sp.

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.

Down to 5 degrees last night but a good catch was had -

Taxa
0663 Diurnea fagella 2
0688 Agonopterix heracliana 11
0705 Agonopterix umbellana 1 NFY only my second.
1663 March Moth (Alsophila aescularia) 7
1934 Dotted Border (Agriopis marginaria) 1
2139 Red Chestnut (Cerastis rubricosa) 3
2179 Pine Beauty (Panolis flammea) 7
2182 Small Quaker (Orthosia cruda) 3
2187 Common Quaker (Orthosia cerasi) 42
2188 Clouded Drab (Orthosia incerta) 25
2189 Twin-spotted Quaker (Orthosia munda) 2 NFY
2190 Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) 40
2243 Early Grey (Xylocampa areola) 1
2256 Satellite (Eupsilia transversa) 1
2258 Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii) 2

148 moths of 15 species.

7 Pine Beauty is a good number for a single catch here.

Agonopterix umbellana

Twin spotted Quaker

Small Quaker