Saturday 26 March 2011

A good catch on Friday night at Rhoose Point, both volume and variety!
  • Twin spotted quaker (1)

  • Common Quaker (21)

  • Clouded Drab (4)

  • Double Striped Pug (4)

  • Hebrew Character (8)

  • Early Grey (4)

  • Early Thorn (5)

  • March Moth (1)

  • Streamer (1)

  • Dark Chestnut (1)

  • Small Quaker (2)

  • Small Waved Umber (1)

  • Emmelina monodactyla (3)
    and a very small moth, (approx 8mm long) possibly Agonopterix rotundella - photo below, can anyone help with an id?














Here is a pic of the small waved umber:














And finally the Streamer:

5 comments:

  1. I wouldn't call it very small, but it is Agonopterix rotundella!

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  2. Must be a good record - first modern record for East Glamorgan?

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  3. It's the first record for East Glam, and only the second modern for the whole county.

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  4. Thanks Dave and GMT. Perhaps not very small I admit,but I was fending off bigger mosquitoes at the time!

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  5. Distracted by the Agonopterix, I didn't notice that this is the earliest VC41 record for Small Waved Umber by three weeks!

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