Whetstone, Leics. Update

Things just about starting to pick up here in the center of the (English) midlands, helped along greatly by me finally getting around to bringing my Synergetic trap back into action. This uses a dual-band 'green' circle tube that is usually used in insectocutors, and works much better than a standard actinic and often matches or outperforms the 125W MV in the garden. It has been out of action for almost a year after my wife inadvertently smashed the previous version to bits whilst extracting a bike from the garden shed, during which the trap fell from height and the tube didn't bounce very well.

22W Synergetic ring in combo with 18W standard CFL (I always run any actinic style trap in combo with a standard CFL for visible light these days, seems to work better that actinic alone).

Whilst it's been fairly warm in the days over the weekend and today, it's getting cool in the evenings so overall catches still very much on the low side, but I've picked up 15 new for the year species (taking me up to 86). 11 of these picked up in the Synergetic trap, 4 in the 125W MV. Additions are:

	Taxon	Vernacular	Date Added
72	Tethea ocularis octogesimea	Figure of Eighty	31/05/2013
73	Argyresthia trifasciata		31/05/2013
74	Lomographa temerata	Clouded Silver	31/05/2013
75	Evergestis forficalis	Garden Pebble	31/05/2013
76	Drepana falcataria	Pebble Hook-tip	31/05/2013
77	Laothoe populi	Poplar Hawk-moth	31/05/2013
78	Apamea sordens	Rustic Shoulder-knot	31/05/2013
79	Cabera pusaria	Common White Wave	31/05/2013
80	Plutella xylostella	Diamond-back Moth	31/05/2013
81	Hydriomena impluviata	May Highflyer	31/05/2013
82	Aphomia sociella	Bee Moth	02/06/2013
83	Bryotropha affinis		02/06/2013
84	Calliteara pudibunda	Pale Tussock	02/06/2013
85	Bucculatrix nigricomella		02/06/2013
86	Perizoma flavofasciata	Sandy Carpet	02/06/2013

May Highflyer

Figure of Eighty

Sandy Carpet

Bucculatrix nigricomella