After a quiet night yesterday it seems the moth mgiration picked up again last night with Small Mottled Willow, 5 Four-spotted Footman, Delicate, Rush Veneer, Diamond-back and Green Oak Tortrix.
Also a couple of garden ticks and a few new for years including White Satin, Sycamore, Shears, Dingy Shears, Swallow-tail moth and Waste-ground Veneer. Now on 494 for the garden and 270 for the year.
I'm casually recording the botany and other entomology in the garden too including the moth trap by-catch. Now on 125 species for that HERE . Most interesting thing was quite a few Byrony Mining Bees.
Our garden meadows are better than hoped as there's basically a carpet of white clover which is attracting tens of bees- the usual suspects; Red-tipped, White-tipped, Tree, Carder, Buff-tailed and Honey. There's also Meadow Browns, the odd Red Admiral and Large Whites (including caterpillars eating our cauliflowers) in the meadows. The pond tadpoles are now Froglets and I had a Brown Hawker flying around a few days ago. Good to see all the wildlife garden habitats working well- build it and they will come. The big hope is that we increase local insect populations in some way. Over 200 native trees, nearly an acre of meadows (low and high swards), the pond and the butterfly shrub borders should make a difference hopefully.
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