I trapped on Tuesday night despite the deluge - it was warmer than the other nights this week, which have been clear and moonlit, and on wet nights like this I can stick my trap under the edge of the lean-to which adjoins the house. As there was no wind to blow the rain under the lean-to, the trap was bone dry in the morning.
Considering the conditions I thought 32 species was a reasonable total, with a few notable micro-moths in the catch:
Bedellia somnulentella (a boom and bust species which last appeared in numbers in 2011),
Coleophora lineolea (new for garden) and the bunny ears moth
Ypsolopha sequella.
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| Ypsolopha sequella |
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| Bedellia somnulentella |
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| Coleophora lineolea |
Coleophora lineolea seems to be almost restricted to the south-eastern corner of Glamorgan (map from my copy of the county database in MapMate - click to enlarge).
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