Wednesday, 22 May 2019

Moth improvement!

Last night I put my stronger moth trap up and had a better catch than yesterday, including a couple of new species for the patch:
Heart and Dart 2
Shuttle-shaped Dart 4
Seraphim 1 (my first ever! Interestingly its food plant is Poplar - there are one or two in Montpelier)
Grey/Dark Dagger 1
Vine's Rustic 1 (First ever - difficult to ID but likely to be this species)
Willow Beauty 1
Tachystola acroxantha
Codling Moth Cydia pomonella
Plume Moth sp.
Light Brown Apple Moth
Seraphim


Coddling Moth

Grey/Dark Dagger and probable Vine's Rustic

Heart and Dart



Plume Moth

Shuttle-shaped Dart

Tachystola acroxantha

There were a couple of spiders attracted to the trap - a Philodromus (Running Crab Spider) and a Pholcus phalangioides (Cellar Spider).
Pholcus phalangioides

Philodromus

Nothing new at the station this morning - a Woodlouse on the wall looks like Common Rough Woodlouse.
Probable Common Rough Woodlouse



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