Sunday, May 30, 2010

Aliens have landed...




Which end is up? Pale Prominent.

Drizzling but 9 degrees brought another nice catch last night, including 3 new ones.


1722 Flame Carpet 2
1727 Silver Ground Carpet 1
1728 Garden Carpet 3
1738 Common Carpet 1
1750 Water Carpet 1
1802 Rivulet 2
1834 Common Pug 2
1835 White spotted Pug 1 new for the year.
1902 Brown Silver-line 2
1906 Brimstone 1
1920 Scalloped Hazel 1
1981 Poplar Hawkmoth 1
2011 Pale Prominent 2 new for me and a years highlight so far. Fantastic, funny looking creatures, I'm sure they are from another planet!
2060 White Ermine 1
2061 Buff Ermine 1
2078 Least Black Arches 1
2089 Heart and Dart 1 new.
2123 Small Square Spot 27
2334 Rustic shoulder Knot 2
2450 Spectacle 1

54 moths of 20 species. My first night since March without a Hebrew Character! It seems that Small Square Spot has taken its place...

White spotted Pug.


Heart and Dart.

1 comment:

Emma Anderson said...

Moths have such interesting names, Stewart - if I didn't have a moth book I might think you make them up yourself!