Norfolk moths: Rockland St. Peter garden, 14 September 2013

The night of 14 September was crystal clear, cloudless, dead calm and fine. As a consequence, temperatures dropped markedly overnight: from the low teens at dusk to 7.8°C when I first checked the trap at 05h30,  4.2°C when I turned it off at 06h10 and 3.9°C by 06h30.

Not surprisingly, the catch was much reduced and for the first time there were neither micros, nor wasps nor carrion beetles. Golden Plover were calling high overhead as I patrolled the trap in the pre-dawn.

Lunar Underwing was new for the trap, with two strkingly different colour forms.

Lunar Underwing Omphaloscelis lunosa: variations on a theme.

Common Marbled Carpet Chloroclysta truncata: this strking colour form is the only one trapped so far.   

Sallow Xanthia icteritia: f. flavescens below  

Moths - all macros (9 spp.):-

Xanthorhoe fluctuata	Garden Carpet	1
Chloroclysta truncata	Common Marbled Carpet	1
Colostygia pectinataria	Green Carpet	1
Noctua pronuba	Large Yellow Underwing	2
Noctua comes	Lesser Yellow Underwing	1
Agrochola litura	Brown-spot Pinion	1
Omphaloscelis lunosa	Lunar Underwing	2
Xanthia icteritia	Sallow	3
Autographa gamma	Silver Y	1