Cefnpennar

I was out really early, so couldn't run my trap, last night but while I was out all morning and actually saw three leps. The first, an unidentified micro was seen in the heather while doing a Breeding Bird Survey on Mynydd Merthyr, but it had disappeared before I could get a pot and my reading glasses out of my pocket. The second was a more definite Common Heath, seen along a forest ride, above Cefnpennar and the last was a Small White, by my car, at Cefnpennar Uchaf. I also saw my first Green Tiger Beetles of the year, up in the forestry.

The weather for the week ahead is looking good, so I'm crossing my fingers for a decent catch on Friday night, for the GMS.

Senghenydd

Well chuffed to find this beauty in the trap this morning - my first ever Mullein.

Parc slip, Tondu.

                                         Yellow belle

                                           Mother shipton

                                          Dingy skipper

                                            Coleophora sp.

Cwmbach (winter???)GMS

After having no moths at all, last Friday, this week, after a wet night, I actually got three moths of two species, those being 2 Common Marbled Carpet and a single Flame Shoulder. If this carries on, I might sell the trap and take up Origami!

Rhoose Point

What a difference a warm, still night makes! 29 species in total, and a much greater number of moths overall.  New for the year include:

• Common Marbled Carpet
• Flame Shoulder
• Green Carpet
• Buff-tip
• Treble Lines
• Pebble Prominent
• Waved Umber
• Pale Tussock
• Cochylis atricapitana
• Rustic/Uncertain

 New for the garden were:

• Aspilapteryx tringipenella
• Swallow Prominent (pic below)
  
• Possible Juniper Pug (pic below)

 Plus a couple of  migrants 3x Diamond-back Moths and a Silver Y.

Hopefully others will have caught a few more too!?

Swallow Prominent? - I have been known to get these confused with Lesser SP!

Juniper Pug?

Senghenydd

I also had bumper catch of 5 species last night. However, only 2 of them were in the trap, the other 3 were indoors. Trap - E postvittana and this Neofaculta ericetella (new species for me and possibly for ST19). Indoors - Brown House-moth, White-shouldered House-moth and a Clothes Moth sp - probably Tinea pellionella. Comes to something when there's more moths turning up in the house than in the garden trap!

Moths!

A whopping five moths in the trap last night! Peppered moth, Heart & Dart, Flame Shoulder, Pale Tussock & Aspliapterix tringipennella. Not exactly earth shattering stuff, but at least something is flying!