Cotswolds - 13th - 14th April

Sarah and I spent the weekend of the 13th April at our cottage in Cowley in the Cotswolds. It was mainly a family based weekend but I ran the moth-trap on the Friday and Saturday night and while it was a little chilly (7c) I caught a few early spring species:

Brindled Beauty

Twin-spotted Quaker

Powdered Quaker

March Moth

White-marked

Red-green Carpet

Mottled Grey

In addition to these species I also recorded;

Chestnut

Clouded Drab

Common Quaker

Early Grey

Early Thorn

Hebrew Character

Shoulder-stripe

Cotswolds Moth Trapping - 21st-23rd April

A weekend at our cottage in Cowley in the Cotswolds allowed me a few nights of early spring moth trapping. Species recorded over the nights of 21st, 22nd and 23rd April were:

• Brindled Beauty
• Clouded Drab
• Common Quaker
• Early Grey
• Flame-shoulder
• Hebrew Character
• Least Black Arches
• Lesser Swallow Prominent
• Muslin Moth
• Nut-tree Tussock
• Powdered Rustic
• Purple Thorn
• Swallow Prominent
• Waved Umber

Least Black Arches

Waved Umber

Purple Thorn

Swallow Prominent

Lesser Swallow Prominent

Brindled Beauty

Powdered Quaker

Hebrew Character - The left hand individual has a reduced black forewing mark

Muslin Moth

Clouded Drab