Showing posts with label 0130 Incurvaria masculella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 0130 Incurvaria masculella. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 May 2016

8/9th May 2016

Amongst a good catch for early May the first Incurvaria masculella since 2012.


Nothing to do with moths but this fellow was terrorising the newts and frogs in the garden pond yesterday:



Wednesday, 22 April 2009

22nd April 2009 - part 2

A warm, sunny day and lots of moths were fluttering around in the garden. The first that I managed to net was another garden first in the form of a handsome Incurvaria masculella:


Next to appear was the more expected Esperia sulphurella:

Several of the very common Nettle-tap, Anthophila fabriciana, also appeared for the first time:


This plume moth, Amblyptilia acanthadactyla, was disturbed from near to where the trap had been overnight so had perhaps been overlooked earlier:


Finally a non-moth - several of these Woundwort Shield bugs were out sunning themselves as well: