Gorseinon Thursday night 9th

Blossom underwing last night the highlight . Good numbers of moths/species
21 brindled beauty ,  9 c. Quaker, 7 s. Quaker , 5 Hebrew ch.  singles of streamer, ang shades , Sal kitten  , pop grey, early tooth striped, twin spot Quaker . 2 each of clouded drab and oak beauty

Garnwen, Nantyffyllon 9/4/20.

            2 Epinotia pygmaeana flying in sunshine around spruce trees, a lifer for me and only 5 previous county records. The photo below shows the feathered antennae. Both were males.

Moth Dissection Course

I am running a dissection course at the SEWBReC office at the end of the February, and we have two spaces left. If you are interested, please contact me (david . slade @ sewbrec . org . uk) Thanks, Dave

Merthyr mawr

     Pammene giganteana. First county record

     Pammene argyrana. Last recorded in Glamorgan in 1923.
     I caught these two tortrix at Merthyr mawr dunes on 24/5/2017 and gave them to George Tordoff for dissection. They were thought lost until refound this week! Thanks George and to Dave for confirmation.

Barry, 10th November

A good mix in the trap from Sunday night including Merveille du Jour, December Moth, Red-green Carpet, Yellow-line Quaker and two Silver Y. The surprise was the Sprawler - doubly so as I hadn't checked to see how scarce it was here (GMS folks always seem to get them here and there). Poss. 6th record for Glamorgan and 2nd since 1917 (Thanks to George)! I shall have to try to get a better pic...

Mellte

Just out of county, occupied leaf mines of Stigmella tiliae were present on at least three Small-leaved Limes at the gunpowder works site in the Mellte valley near Pontneddfechan. My data set shows this species has not been recorded in Glamorgan, so it may be work checking potential county sites...

Barry 23rd-24th August

The last two nights have seen large numbers of Jersey Tiger in the trap here; ten on Friday night and thirteen individuals counted from last night. Plus one seen fluttering in the garden by day yesterday. Last year I think we had no more than ten recorded and usually in ones and twos.

In contrast we've only had one Garden Tiger this year down from a handful last year. Similar foodplants but different tolerances perhaps...?

Some of Friday night's Tigers left, Saturday's right.