Moth Trapping Howdon - 2nd Half of April 2016

The second half of April was just as bad as the first.  I started marking the moths with a tiny dot of water based paint (marked same place for all species on each day) to see if I was retrapping any moths but so far none have reappeared in a trap although I did find a Hebrew Character which I trapped on 14 April on a wooden table next to my trap on 21 April in the late afternoon although it was not there the following morning.  I have now stopped marking them, the last was on 20 April which was my first ever Twenty-plume Moth.

The following is what I trapped from 15 - 30 April 2016, wont bother to show comparisons against last year as like most of us they were well down.

16 April 2016

73.244

Orthosia cerasi

Common Quaker

2

17 April 2016

73.244	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	1
73.249	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character	2

19 April 2016

73.249	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character	2
73.244	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	2
73.242	Orthosia incerta	Clouded Drab	1

20 April 2016

73.249	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character	2
73.242	Orthosia incerta	Clouded Drab	2
44.001	Alucita hexadactyla	Twenty-plume Moth	1
73.244	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	4
73.247	Orthosia gracilis	Powdered Quaker	1

21 April 2016

73.249	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character	4
73.244	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	2
73.242	Orthosia incerta	Clouded Drab	2

22 April 2016

73.242

Orthosia incerta

Clouded Drab

2

23 April 2016

73.242	Orthosia incerta	Clouded Drab	2
73.249	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character	1

24 April 2016

73.249	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character	2
73.242	Orthosia incerta	Clouded Drab	3
73.247	Orthosia gracilis	Powdered Quaker	1
73.244	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	2

30 April 2016

73.244

Orthosia cerasi

Common Quaker

1

I put my 15w Actinic Skinner in my sons back yard, he lives about half a mile from me, for 4 days with the following results:

73.249	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character	1	18-Apr-16
73.244	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	1	18-Apr-16
73.244	Orthosia cerasi	Common Quaker	1	19-Apr-16
73.242	Orthosia incerta	Clouded Drab	1	19-Apr-16

73.249

Orthosia gothica

Hebrew Character

2

21-Apr-16

I will continue to do a few days each month and hope to trap elsewhere also