First trap in our new garden and we get a lifer 🤗💃
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Migrant moths dribbling on near Creech St Michael but the highlight were two of these wee tortrixes, which I think look good candidates for the rare Gynnidomorpha alismana (grade 4…). #SomersetMoths #TeamMoth Off to search the River Tone for water-plantain…
We aim to please : go #somersetmoths ! Yes quite a bit of migrant moth action in the last week or so locally, although rain damped my latest haul on Monday night : "just" Silver Y, small mottled willow and rush veneer the opp. side of Taunton. And 4 Jersey Tigers 🐯 of course! #teammoth
Trapping near Creech St Michael, Somerset, this week: nice migrant haul w/ Small Marbled, 2 Small Mottled Willow, Dark SG, 3 Rush Veneer, RDP. assume the 14 Euro Cornborers (inc mating pair) are resident. #teammoth #migrantmoth #somersetmoths @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
Black Arches NFG
Poplar Hawk Moth NFG
European Corn Borer (new species)
Mottled Rustic (New species)
Another good moth night in my Chard garden VC5, with 6 new species + 5 NFG from 56 moths of 31 species. #Somersetmoths #Teammoth