Action!

Wahey! The trap excelled itself last night - 6 moths of 4 species (including a Garden Cosmet which was across the yard on a windowledge, but it probably did come to the light).

New for the year were three rather skittish Flame Carpets. It's interesting to compare the wing patterns - they are all slightly different.

Also a first for the year was this little migrant, the Diamond-back Moth, Plutella xylostella. I am embarrassed to admit, I thought it was a Rhigognostis incarnatella when I saw it at first, a similar but larger and darker species in the same family. The long winter must have left me a bit rusty!

Looking a bit pink there in the cap of one of my specimen pots...

Trap Report 19-20 May 2013

25W Blacklight | @ home garden, Springmartin J3074 HVC39
Cloudy, 11-12°C, B1-2

 Mompha subbistrigella: 1
 Endrosis sarcitrella: 1
 Plutella xylostella: 1 [Y] [GY]
 Flame Carpet: 3 [Y] [GY]

Something else happened today, which I don't have time to write about now - probably tomorrow afternoon...

Spoilers... ;-)