Tuesday 29 January 2013

Rhoose Top 10 2011 & 2012

Here's my data for 2011 & 2012.  The most notable points I guess is the appearance of Silver Y at no 2 for 2012, and the fact that overall numbers of the commonest species appears not to have altered dramatically despite the poor conditions in 2012, except for H&D.  Curiously the total number of species trapped was also greater in 2012.  That could be explained by my identification skills becoming better (slowly!) though.  I also wonder if I may have been misrecording Uncertain/Rustics as Vine's Rustics in 2011?


  2012
Heart and Dart 361
Silver Y 173
Light Brown Apple Moth 135
Large Yellow Underwing 116
Garden Grass-veneer 83
Common Rustic agg. 73
Uncertain/Rustic agg. 68
Dark Arches 56
Hebrew Character 55


  2011
Heart and Dart 1345
Large Yellow Underwing 116
Dark Arches 98
Light Brown Apple Moth 85
Setaceous Hebrew Character 67
Vine's Rustic 66
Garden Grass-veneer 65
Marbled Minor agg. 57
Shuttle-shaped Dart54

1 comment:

  1. Adam,

    I think Vine's Rustic just had a bad year - I had 44 in 2011 and only 4 in 2012. On the other hand Rustic & Uncertain went from 46 (combined total) in 2011 to 49 in 2012.

    George

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