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Moths seen in the garden to date A-C, D-F, G-M, N-Si, Sh-the end
April & May 2007
Once again the website seems to have been overlooked in all the busyness. My excuse is that there have been no new species of moth so far this year, although the numbers seem to be up on last year, and an increasing workload as I head towards finishing the course that I am on. There are always the other things to do like taking the occasional funeral and preparing sermons for Sunday and it is one of these that has caused me to update the website - at long last!!! This week I decided that for an all-age Communion I would do something different and because someone was kind enough to comment on a previous one that I placed on the web I thought I would do the same with this which is based on Acts 9:1-20 and John 21:1-19. If you are at all interested please click here to read what I did.
24th April and at long last a new species to add to those that I have seen. This time a Least Black Arches, Nola confusalis, an attractive little moth.
29th April and another new species, this time the small phoenix, Ecliptopera silaceata. This month's species total is the highest for April since I began recording three years ago, the previous highest having been in 2004. I also had a grey tortrix yesterday which would seem to be exceptionally early. I suspect this can only be accounted for by the high temperatures that we have been experiencing.
24th May, yet another new moth and the species are well up on last year with 30 to date this month. The new moth appeared last night and I believe it o be a small clouded brindle, Apamea unanimis.
I am also awaiting an identification for the moth I picture below which I believe to be one of the Argyresthia. Unfortunately it was so small the photograph is not the clearest. The wingspan is 7 - 10 mm. I was correct and the moth was identified as being an Argyresthia trifasciata which I am informed is a colonist and scarce.
26th May and another first for the garden, at least to our knowledge. this morning Pete took this photgraph of a rabbit which he seemed to think was munching on the grass!! I'm not convinced.
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Moths seen in the garden to date A-C, D-F, G-M, N-Si, Sh-the end