Monday, 16 July 2012

Teleiodes sequax.

                         A better shot of this from Mumbles on Wednesday.
                         It looks like the jet stream is starting to move north
                         over the weekend, prime those traps......

Saturday, 14 July 2012

Cwmbach GMS

Quite a N. Easterly breeze picked up overnight, but with a minimum temperature of 11.60C, the catch was reasonable (for this July, though poor by any other July's standards)  twenty seven species, of which eighteen were counted for the GMS.
A hint of migrant activity spiced things up, with singles of Diamond-back Moth and a tatty Silver Y. A Common Rustic agg hinted at things to come, while the highlights for me were Lozotaenia forsterana (1), Evergestis Pallidata (1), my first two Buff Arches of the year and my first Light Arches of the year.

Rhoose Point 13/7

Biston Betularia f. insularia.

Anarsia spartiella
34 species last night, not bad considering it was blowing a gale around midnight.  Two new for the garden record, the insularia form of Peppered Moth, and what I think is Anarsia spartiella - do let me know if it isn't please!

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Tutt head, Mumbles today.

                                   Plenty of Rock rose on the head and i'm fairly
                                   confident this is Teleiodes sequax although i have
                                   not seen this species before. Comments.

Rhoose

 I've tentatively id'd this as Grapholita tenebrosana.  Have I got that right?
 This one I think is Notocelia roborana? Or, if you look closely, David and Goliath!

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Rhoose Point 9/7

47 species last night.  New for the garden record were Eucosma campoliliana and Iron Prominent. Putting in a first apperance for the year were Common Footman and Lesser Yellow Underwing. 

Also 13 Silver Y and about half a dozen Diamond-back moths suggesting there are migrants about once again.

May pop a couple of photos up later.

Monday, 9 July 2012

Llangynwyd.

              Amblyptilia punctidactyla tapped from Hedge woundwort.