Min 7 degrees. Hopefully we'll get a bit more variety soon, the weather looks good for later this week...

Taxa
1025 Tortricodes alternella 1
2190 Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) 5
2258 Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii) 1

7 moths of 3 sp

STOP IT, ITS RIDICULOUS!

Can anyone please tell me why most split moth lists into macros and micros?

They are all the same, just some are bigger than others. You wouldn't keep a bird list split into passerines and non passerines, (or big mammals and little mammals or large butterflies and small butterflies for that matter) so why on earth do it for moths.

They are ALL just moths and thats that. There's not a separate code to record the little'uns on, the numbers run consecutively. I've never understood it.

Phew, sorry about that. You know that OCD thing that we all get sometimes? Well this is mine...

A breezy but mild early evening, wind dropping later. 9 degree min.

Like buses, you get something new one day and the next day more follow!A proper catch last night.

Taxa
0461 Ypsolopha ustella 1
0688 Agonopterix heracliana 3
1025 Tortricodes alternella 2
1926 Pale Brindled Beauty (Phigalia pilosaria) 1 NFY
2190 Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) 6
2256 Satellite (Eupsilia transversa) 1
2258 Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii) 1 NFY

15 moths of 7 sp

Pale brindled Beauty

Chestnut

Hebrew Character

Well, I didnt expect TWO new species for me last night. Winter Shade and Variable Smudge are both garden ticks.

I had an ustella in early 2010 but flattened it with the base of the pot in a gruesome moth-accident. It was never recorded...

Taxa
0461 Ypsolopha ustella 1 NEW and alive and well.
1025 Tortricodes alternella 2 NEW
2190 Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) 3 NFY

6 Moths of 3 sp.

0461 Ypsolopha ustella

1025 Tortricodes alternella

2256 Satellite ( from the night before)

A spring moth...

After two blank nights, two moths. The Red Chestnut was a nice surprise and turns out to be the earliest record for the county by one day.

Taxa
0688 Agonopterix heracliana 1
2139 Red Chestnut (Cerastis rubricosa) 1

2 moths of 2 sp

Red Chestnut

Agonopterix heracliana

Doh!

Only two moths into 2012 and I miss id'd one of them! The Chestnut, below, is as Matt says quite rightly a Dark Chestnut...

2012. And they're off....

Mild for the time of year, down to 5 degrees, but for some of the time the cloud rolled back to reveal a bright full moon.

Started the year off with...

Taxa
1799 Winter Moth (Operophtera brumata) 1
2258 Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii) 1

2 moths of 2 sp.