Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Very hot by 7am!

Last night the trap started to fill immediately with wasps, ladybirds, beetles, weevils, caddisflies and so on plus the usual moth suspects. Very hot and humid but still massively lit by street lights (lots of moth activity) and the moon.

Up early and Bullfinch calling although not a peep from the usual Great Spot.

First casualty due to wasps since I started looks to have been a Willow Beauty.

Flame Carpet, Cabbage Moth and Caloptila spp were new so 138 the latter needing gen dets to split the two species

If I was a pan-lister then this morning's Phasia hemiptera at QECP would have been an additional species.