Sunday 7 August 2016

Wet start

Rather caught out this morning by early drizzle so a few slightly damp egg boxes in the trap. Three new micros and two macros, Knot Grass(3) and a single rather worn Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing. Sycamore was probably the smartest specimen, the bulk of the catch being a variety of Rustic/Uncertain/Common Rustic.
The conservatory is becoming a bit of a death-trap for insects with Large and Small White butterflies, Meadow Brown and Gatekeepers regularly bumbling around and falling foul of spiders and their webs, along with numerous flies, the odd hover and a sizeable and uncatchable cricket today.