I ran the moth trap out for its second run out last night. A slight increase in both species and numbers, 7 spp, and 10 in total. Nothing as spectacular as the Poplar Hawkmoth. Pale Tussock Calliteara pudibunda was the only species to show more than once - 2 males and a female.
The first micro turned up in the trap - a Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana. Hardly surprising as its a species that turns up at the kitchen window most years, and I've already seen several whilst out and about.
Common Marbled Carpet, Chlorocysta truncata, Brown Silver-line, Petrophora chlorosata, Heart and Dart, Agroti exclamationis, Peppered Moth, Biston betulria and Satin Grass-veneer Crambus perlella made up the rest of the catch.
The bye-catch included several Caddisflies and a Black Sexton Beetle, Nicrophorus humator. Unlike the one last week, this one came complete with a load of mites, Poecilochirus spp. Looking into these mights, there is a suggestions from a 2017 paper that each species of might favours a singe species of Sexton Beetle. Unfortunately I couldn't get info on the species favouring N. humator.
On the wall was a small Soldier Beetle that turned out to be Rhagonycha lignosa, a lifer.
Pale Tussock
Common Marbled Carpet
One of the smarter Caddisflies Athripsodes bilineatus
Rhagonycha lignosa
The first micro turned up in the trap - a Light Brown Apple Moth, Epiphyas postvittana. Hardly surprising as its a species that turns up at the kitchen window most years, and I've already seen several whilst out and about.
Common Marbled Carpet, Chlorocysta truncata, Brown Silver-line, Petrophora chlorosata, Heart and Dart, Agroti exclamationis, Peppered Moth, Biston betulria and Satin Grass-veneer Crambus perlella made up the rest of the catch.
The bye-catch included several Caddisflies and a Black Sexton Beetle, Nicrophorus humator. Unlike the one last week, this one came complete with a load of mites, Poecilochirus spp. Looking into these mights, there is a suggestions from a 2017 paper that each species of might favours a singe species of Sexton Beetle. Unfortunately I couldn't get info on the species favouring N. humator.
On the wall was a small Soldier Beetle that turned out to be Rhagonycha lignosa, a lifer.
Nice caddis, used to be var interjectus re: Barnard & Ross, tidy.
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