During the middle of the week when the weather was warmer and calmer traffic levels were up slightly but not by as much as I had hoped. I have lots of drunken hoverflies and the occasional sozzled Red Admiral making merry beneath the Victoria Plum trees and the broken over-ripe plums I can’t clear. The [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Later summer, bit of a flourish
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Common Rustic, Common Wainscot, Old Lady, Pale Mottled Willow, Rustic, Scalloped Oak, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Square-spot Rustic, uncertain on August 21, 2009 | 7 Comments »
A week’s worth (or thereabouts)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Gardening, Moths on August 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Although the weather here has been reasonable – not actually warm let alone hot but fairly bright and with light winds, the moth visitation level has dropped right away. In terms of number of individuals and variety of species things are way down on the halcyon days of June and July.
That said the occasionally new [...]
On a warm(ish) evening
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Cabbage Moth, Cloaked Minor, Common Carpet, Double-striped Pug, Garden Pebble, Indoors, Insects, Moths, pyrausta purpulralis, Vine's Rustic, Willow Beauty on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Actually, a couple of evenings; the pickings are too lean to justify frenetic blogging each morning. But last night, though the numbers were not high I had a disproportionate number of new species. They were all rather small though mostly classified as macro moths and it has taken me a while to get to the [...]
In fact, some moths
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Indoors, Insects, Lepidoptera, Lesser Rustic, Moths, Outdoors, Privet Hawkmoth on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Between them the past two days have produced a crop of moths almost worth mentioning and one really tremendous find.
The weather has been calmer and warmer, in fact quite humid and the forecast out until the end of the month is good so I might yet extend my list of finds for the year and [...]
Not moths but…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alucita hexadactyla), Common Frog, Twenty-plume Moth on August 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The lack of posting shouldn’t be taken to reflect a diminution in my attentiveness. But there are only so many photographs of hoverflies I can bring myself to take.
Conditions are distinctly mild but not actually cold, and rather damp. Not astonishing, then, that I found what I found lurking in an open bag of compost [...]
July 2009 digest
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Insects, July 2009, Lepidoptera, Moths on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a strange month July was. A mixture of the scarce and notable on the one hand, some nights when I could barely keep up, and a long barren patch at the end. Since about the twentieth of the month the number of species on any day has failed to reach double figures, and there [...]
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