Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Oak Nycteoline... first "goodie" of the year

Warm and cloudy evening produced my first real variety of the year from the garden trap. Top spot on the list goes to this garden first Oak Nycteoline which seems to be rather an unusual species in Bedfordshire. The book tells me this is of the form "notata".
Also new for the garden in the last couple of nights have been a Twin-spotted Quaker and Shoulder Stripe (three records) and a couple of micros that I actually managed to identify !

Oak Nycteoline (form notata) - garden first 22/3/11


Twin spotted Quaker

Shoulder Stripe

Full garden list for the evening of March 22nd: 20 macro of 9 species
Common Quaker - 5
Hebrew Character - 8
Small Quaker - 1
Clouded Drab - 1
Twin Spotted Quaker - 1 NFG
Double-striped Pug - 1 FFY
March Moth - 1
Early Grey - 1
Oak Nycteoline - 1 NFG
Twenty Plume Moth
Emmelina monodactyla
Diurnea fagella NFG

1 comment:

  1. Nice catch! I'll struggle for T-s Quaker and Oak Nycteoline is a real outsider.......

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