Well it's time to start a new thread for this year. I saw my 1st Red Admiral of the year yesterday & have had a couple of moths in the house & in the trap overnight.
The house moths come out of the firewood (I think), Ive had 3 around the computer this month, I just keep putting them back out Mompha subbistrigella
Photo taken of it in the plastic pot before I threw it out.
Then in the trap a couple of moths, Eudonia angustea, always around in the winter,
& this one which is several weeks early, not sure why, Orthosia incerta "Clouded Drab Moth"
Last years thread is here https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/206393/butterflies-moths-2020 for those that want to have a bit of bedtime reading.
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
Germain said:
I forgot these photos from the other day. What happens when you drop your trap upside down
Oooops!
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Finally, there had been a let up in the weather, and the butterflies were out and about.
A very recent visit to Middleton Lakes (yet to be written and posted), the peacocks and orange tips were in abundance.
I'd spotted the female first while chatting to someone
and then spotted the male, with yet another female just in the lower right
I saw a series of photos of a North American moth, the Rosy Maple Moth, on another website (a birding, not an insect site!) showing it in various stages of pumping up its new wings. Sorry I cannot post a link because it is a private site, but if you google the name you can have a look at this amazingly coloured moth--wonderful.
Edit: Try this one for starters: www.butterfliesandmoths.org/.../Dryocampa-rubicunda
Kind regards, Ann
Cin J