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That's much better!

Well, what a difference the lack of a cold easterely blowing through the garden makes.

Yesterdays temperature hit 23c and although it was still breezy, it wasn't as bad.

The breeze lasted into the night and has now completely disappeared entirely, this bodes well for the nights ahead hopefully. But firstly onto last night, and wow what a change, with four times the species over previous nights and with 8 new for year species recorded (1 pending) it was certainly a marked improvement and very welcome indeed after two weeks of blanks and less than 5 moths each outing.

Best macro moth of the night was a very pale Powdered Quaker, far from common here and the best micro moth went to Pseudoswammerdamia combinella, a moth that had only been previously recorded once here before in 2014, a little tatty but you can't have it all.

Numbers still low in relation to species, this is a running trend for my garden, compared to others who trap several hundred in one night, most of the year here is made up of singleton species on each trap outing.

Garden species count for 2020 now upto 75 (with a Stigmella pending).

24 moths of 19 species to 250w Clear MV Robinson Trap

Catch Report - 23/04/20 - Back Garden - Stevenage - North Herts

Macro Moths

Pale Mottled Willow 1 [NFY] Powdered Quaker 1 [NFY] Rustic Shoulder-knot 1 [NFY] Waved Umber 1 [NFY] Brindled Pug 4 Common Quaker 1 Double-striped Pug 1 Early Thorn 1 Frosted Green 1 Least Black Arches 1 Nut-tree Tussock 1 Shuttle-shaped Dart 3

Micro Moths

Alucita hexadactyla 1 [NFY] Incurvaria masculella 1 [NFY] Pseudoswammerdamia combinella 1 [NFY] Stigmella sp 1 [NFY] TBC Epiphyas postvittana 1 Eriocrania subpurpurella 1