SATURDAY 27th MARCH 2010
3 Common Quaker
1 Early Grey
3 Hebrew Character
1 Clouded Drab
Common
Quaker is new to this year's garden list
WEDNESDAY 24th MARCH 2010
At last a good few moths!
3 Oak Beauty
6 Hebrew Character
2 Clouded Drab
1 Shoulder Stripe
1 Common Quaker
1 Mottled Grey
3 Agonopterix heracliana
The Mottled
Grey was a good species for us, we have only had 3 in the past 9 years
Really cold start to the year up on North Coast of West Norfolk
TUESDAY 23rd MARCH 2010
2 Hebrew Character
1 Clouded Drab
1 Dotted Border
1 March Moth
SUNDAY 21st MARCH 2010
1 Clouded Drab
1 Hebrew Character
1 Pine Beauty
Hebrew
Character, Clouded
Drab & Pine
Beauty are new to this year's garden list
WEDNESDAY 17th MARCH 2010
1 Early Grey
Early
Grey new to this year's garden list
TUESDAY 16th MARCH 2010
1 Dotted Border
We tried again at Dersingham Bog for Orange
Underwing and this time saw at least 4 flying in the mid-day sunshine.
In the Toilet Block at Snettisham Services toilet block (TF 678713) we
had 6 Yellow
Horned
SUNDAY 14th MARCH 2010
1 Agonopterix heracliana
1 Oak Beauty
Oak Beauty
new to this year's garden list
Today we had planty of sunshine so we visited Dersingham Bog (Park at
TF662283 and walk to the John Denver Memorial Bench and look up into the
tops of the birch trees.) to look for Orange Underwing
but no success.
SATURDAY 13th MARCH 2010
Finally a few degrees warmer with a temperature of 6 degrees at night.
2 Dotted Border
1 March Moth
5 Agonopterix hericliana
1 Acleris ferugana
Dotted
Border, March
Moth, Agonopterix
heracliana & Acleris
ferrugana are new to this year's garden list
Tried putting the trap on 9-11th March and had no moths at all
WHAT A COLD START TO THE YEAR UP HERE ON THE NORTH COAST OF WEST NORFOLK
AND NO SIGN OF ANY MOTHS UNTIL MIDDLE OF MARCH
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