Roath Central

Not too much over the last few days, a few Large Ranunculus, Blair's Sh-knot, Black Rustic & Light Emerald with Silver Y & Rush Veneer. Also a couple of Red Admirals on ivy blossom.

Butterfly Conservation AGM & Members day

Just a quick reminder that this Saturday is the South Wales Branch AGM & Members day. The venue is now the Ogmore Constituency Labour Party Social Club (CF31 4ES) (not Kenfig as originally advertised). The speakers include myself talking about a book that Barry, Jake and myself have been writing, Phil Stirling talking about his micro-moths book, Chris Manley on his mobile apps, Mike Slater on Small Blues and George Tordoff on his BC work. The event is free and open to non-members, so please feel free to come along, if only to meet some of the regular posters on this blog!

Mompha divisiella

                                     Flying in late afternoon sunshine at Maesteg yesterday.

Rhoose Point

Despite the chilly temperature last night there were 10 species in the trap ths morning.  The Green-brindled Crescent in the pic below was new for the garden record.  Also the first Beaded Chestnut plus a couple of Silver Y and a lone Diamond-back moth.

Mystery caterpillar

This was lying on the roof of the car in torrential rain on Thursday evening. It looked dead but has perked up and been eating ornamental cherry, which is what the car was parked under. It is large at 57mm but I can't find it in Porter or on Reg fry's site at ukleps.

On ornamental cherry. 57mm

Anyone got any ideas?

Vale Moths 10.x.12

A selection of the moths at ivy on 10.x.12. Grey Shoulder-knot, Satellite, L-album Wainscot & Tawny Pinion. (MCP & DRWG)

A few migrants

A Red Admiral was in the trap this morning, presumably it was on night migration. This is my third butterfly record for the moth trap at Llandaff North, the others being Large White and Speckled Wood - both in 2008.

The previous night I had Silver Y and a Diamond-back. Nothing much else of note...still getting decent numbers of Common Marbled Carpet and Lesser Yellow Underwing, plus a few Angle Shades. The latter seems to be one of the few species that's had a good year in 2012.