Monday 27 August 2012

10-spot Ladybird

A new species for our garden.




Garden Moth Update
























18th August 2012 - Minimum temperature 15°C




Green Carpet 1
Willow Beauty 20
Ribbon Wave 16
Honeysuckle Moth 1
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 4
Brimstone 1
Marbled Beauty 1
Light Brown Apple 6
Uncertain 1
Lesser Yellow Underwing 33
Large Yellow Underwing 16
Common Rustic agg 7
Dark Arches 3
Brown House Moth 2
Garden Carpet 1
White Shouldered House Moth 1
Mother of Pearl 1
Marbled Minor agg 1
Red-barred Tortrix 1 (see photograph)
Dark Fruit Tortrix 1
Crambus Perlella 1
Eudonia lacustrata 2
Common Wainscot 1
Acleris Forsskaleana 1
Blastobasis Adustella 1
Blastobasis Lacticolella 1
Bryotropha Domestica 1
Cabbage Moth 1
Bee Moth 1

London 2012 Olympics














































A selection of photographs taken during a wonderful weekend of Olympic action. In good company under a great atmosphere of excitement and happiness of all attending events. The stadia were amazing, but the Olympia park was a fine example of the best of the british countryside with vast areas wildflowers feeding bees, butterflies and moths. It was a pleasure to walk the vast parkland to take in the atmosphere and see the flowers.

London 2012 Olympics
































Tuesday 7 August 2012

Garden Moth Update

3rd August 2012 - Minimum Temperature 15.4°C.

418 - Apple Fruit Moth 2
424 - Bird-cherry Ermine 1
425x - Apple / Orchard Ermine 7
453 - Honeysuckle Moth 1
647 - Brown House Moth 1
658 - Carcina quercana 2
822 - Scrobipalpa acruminatella 1
972 - Dark Fruit-tree Tortix 2
1010 - Red-barred Tortix 1
1036 - Acleris forsskaleana 2
1293 - Chrysoteuchia culmella 1
1338 - Eudonia lacustrata 8
1428 - Bee Moth 3
1470 - Euzophera pinguis 2
1524 - Emmelina monodactyla 1
1653 - Buff Arches 1
1708 - Single-dotted Wave 1
1713 - Riband Wave 1
1728 - Garden Carpet 2
1778 - Green Carpet 1
1825 - Lime-speck Pug 1
1839 - Bordered Pug 1
1860 - Green Pug 1
1917 - Early Thorn 1
1937 - Willow Beauty 8
2031 - White Satin Moth 1
2089 - Heart & Dart 1
2050 - Common Footman 1
2107 - Large Yellow Underwing 14
2111 - Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 3
2136 - Gothic 1
2154 - Cabbage Moth 1
2155 - Dot Moth 1
2199 - Common Wainscot 2
2293 - Marbled Beauty 6
2321 - Dark Arches 8
2343 - Common Rustic agg 3
2381 - Uncertain 5
2434 - Burnished Brass 4
2437 - Golden Plusia 1
2489 - Fan-foot 1

Garden Moth Update

21st July 2012 - Minimum Temperature 13.5°C.

1063 - Celypha striana 1
1076 - Celypha lacunana 2
1293 - Chrysoteuchia culmella 2
1338 - Eudonia lacustrata 8
1378 - Phlyctaenia coronata 1
1428 - Bee Moth 2
1707 - Small Dusty Wave 2
1713 - Riband Wave 2
1728 - Garden Carpet 3
1742 - Yellow Shell 1
1862 - Double-striped Pug 1
1906 - Brimstone Moth 3
1937 - Willow Beauty 1
1981 - Poplar Hawkmoth 1
2089 - Heart & Dart 1
2107 - Large Yellow Underwing 2
2155 - Dot Moth 2
2193 - Clay 1
2199 - Common Wainscot 1
2284x - Grey/Darl Dagger 2
2293 - Marbled Beauty 3
2321 - Dark Arches 5
2322 - Light Arches 7
2337x - Marbled Minor agg 1
2381 - Uncertain 5
2434 - Burnished Brass 3
2477 - Snout 1
2489 - Fan-foot 4